Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1870 — Weekly News Summary. [ARTICLE]

Weekly News Summary.

.' .mmyfflmi , r A lathe Senate, on the 29th,the House con* current resolution providing Ibr *v*tntfDg ortho late Gonaral Thomas was snbmltteU and referred ... .BUI* were reported—tor the relief of pre-emp-tion settler* ia Nebraska, with amendment I to aothorlae the Southern Minnesota Railroad Comt lon ß and the United States Government; toTIIoV school tiustoea in Arkansas to enter lands for ESESHSSHIS sia; , «^fflr'a*isrgu!sß Sa3r=WßMßß6Sra WSs-pdsscd.A number Of House bills were passed, ftrclndfng the- fellowlng: Authorizing the supply of arms for Instruction and practice to certain colleges and unlveralttsa; for p®4™ a ™r AflJOnwe8 B to4/^ al,i * dsc arge to ►’ kt 1 the’House, on Jhe‘ ftflth, an adverse report was made’6h tbd.bfil permitting retired, army and fiavy officers to.hojd clvtl ofilces.... Several private bills Were passed, lhclndlng one donating condemned caopen to tie McPherson MonucTuflnttfer id wttS was pa*deA.;,.The Bdn*te bill granting lands to aid the courtrdetlou bf a railroad and telegraph irfto Postlandto Astoria add MeMlnnvllle, Oregon, was taken up and debated and passed—97 to 0U.... . A largo number of Senate bills were referred to appropriate committed.f!.£ bill to increase the banking facilltleß was reported and recommitted the ** 9 OBUnitte9 Ih the House, on the 34th, on motion it wgs-kfreed to sdjoaro on the Bth to the 9th A bill was passed to dxtdiidttie time fbr the'completion of tho Military Road from Copper Harbor, Michigan, to flie«n..B<r, Wisconsin..:.Senate bills and joint, resolutions were passed—to create : Sddttional land district*ln Dakota, to be called SpTiugfiild and Fembina districts; to AS the point of Junction of the Union and Central Rallroad .Companies; oh tending the time for the comb I ell on of tbe first section of thA Cairo & Fulton Railroad; to authorize the Burlington & Mississippi Railroad Company, o- assignees, to change the established line ofthe roe-, hi Nebraska... "A joint resolution was passed, -p -ovidlng that all persons duly elected to office in Teaaa shall have thirty-days from Ibe 80ih oi April, 1870, In which to file the oath, of '.office prescribed to (ho act of ,March 90, l?w..,.A<ljoariiedv in the Senate, ou the 2d, adverse reporte were- made—on petitions of retired army otUcevs, praying to be allowed full salaries; memdtial by the Universal Peace Society against Increase of the number of cadets in the Military ! Academy; joint resolutions for the better protection of the frontier of Texas; petitions TOr abolishing th*Ml»tary AaMurty sc-Tbo House Joint resolution lor pay qf pne year’s salary for the -benefit of tbe family bf Uif late Geperal Rawlins, waa repotted favorably ana placed on the calendar ...:The joint resolution directing the Secretary of the Interior to Issue a patent to the-Indiana yearly meeting ofthe Society of Friends, for certain lands in the Shawnee reservation. Was passed ..., The Houae bill extending thirty days the time within which persons elected to office In Texas may take the oath pf office was amended and passed ....Bills wire Introduced and referred—extending the time for constructing a railroad from St. Croix river or take to the west ead of Lake Bunerfpr; to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; totelmburSo Kansas for equipping tod provlelOnlng mllltta forces to aid in suppressing the rebellion.... Bills were passed—for the relief of the widows and orphans ofthe officers, seamen and-murines of the United States steamer Oneida, giving them twelyo months’ pay; House bill extpudinftthe,time for completing the military roadTrom Copper Harbor n/Green Bay, Wftconsln; relative to certain unsold- lands in the counties of Porter and Lake, to mako up deficiencies in land grants to aid the construction or a railroad and telegraph line from tbe Central PaoMc Railroad to Portland, Oregon; gramlng lands and right of way In Missouri and Arkansas to aid In the construction of a railroad and telegraph line along, or near, the thir-, ty-slxtb parallel, from the Mississippi to the Arkansas river...,. The bill to increase the number 61 Judges of the Supreme and Circuit Courts, and estubllßU tho boundaries or judicial circuits, was postponed Indefinitely../Adjourned. In the House, on the 2(1, bills were introduoed—to authorize citizens Of the United Btetee to accetff dlplomltlc service ArOlh foreign government*; to incorporate the'Amerlcan Union 'fetaaasaftaHaiseuas alter all moneys that may b* due by the government to the Pacific Railroad Companies tut Indemnity for Interest otr'rtilrtmd bonds paid-by the government; to repeal the proviso or the 6th Section bf the act efjMrTL ltgW,.whfch *lai»'Opplicatlons for penflohe to fivo years frpjh the origin of .the ctfu-.e of the pension; to WthOVe all politic® disabilities; providing adWtlonal terms of the pnfte4 States Court lnStlchlgibi; amendatory of thb'act extending fee time fpr.tSe cdlnpletionofthe Dubuque & Slottx.Cltjf Railroad; granting lenfl to Wisconsin for ratitoMlroTn Angnslarw Chippewa Mils to Superior CftyfLako Superior: Bet granting hmds to Kansas tor rails£sEߣKHS id pay her a pension of *3,000 per alutlone were; adopted—requesting wHn tne FftilMw find WBWflCfiu id Imprisonment; giving the ComBsmxmtts pais jteg 111 lion WHO ju W wottvvu (Kuu tvs IT) mNI; iWIHvBWIIO v»IO Prretoent to pressi the Alabama.claims to Immediate settlement, so that citizens be promptly paid for their loss, and the nation’s honor mhintelnod—declirtaft It ne be the senttarept of the Am-.rican people that ench reparation he lmSr e i?r! y .ini^hb^4dX«&^ .iln tb? qji the 3d, thf Emj% Joint resoluUoa creating tfte 30U. of May. a public holiday, was referred tolfte Committee on Mllitary Afiklri..!.The bill granting a pension to Mrs. Lincoln was discussed and laid aside... .Bills were reported—favorably, to authorize the settlement SSSSStSSriS ’ropt tows, and several other bills qp the same subijeef; with a recommendation that feey bo lndeflniuily postponod.... Bills were JattMnccd—to promote greater efficiency of tho >p«*towud regulate WTfirtrfoice University, was dismissed.-....8i11s and fixing their compensation. ...Adjourned. In the House, Kii'th« 3d, bßls'wefc *q-troduced-to admit Georgia to representation In Coheres!!, with, ah amendment; to equalize compensation of o|Hcto.#f Um navy and [army* to wtborlto tho seUlemfcnt of the claim* of Kansas for troop* called out by the GovefSS,,Off a requisition at Major General Cuft», to repel the invasion oTGefieral Price; to confirm certain legtslatthn in Colorado Territory..vrA-kill was repqrtkd and went bref.totoa+b- tb« «*« of theyriltwi Slates....A concurrent resolution for final adjournment of this seulon on the 4th current l esolmloufei adjournment ztna die July 4, wto-dlHiamaed, ends mmUflP to,tdftl* U wa* rejocfodMlS to 14 „.. BlHa aed jel to r#sc*uttoa» were gttEssMKaartw^ffi, SsisaaaSa^attSEb oflße tfregon BranoUPetifioJOlitpad; atokmUlng wmmsss

•Ctlnga* Callecton of Internal Revenue, pay f• aS X“fe.tt»loSt resolutloo to pey the widow of General Rawlins one year's salary aa Secretory of Wat... .A bill wa* “latrqdltoed and referred, to freorporat# the International Bocletv of the United state* for the proteetton of Immigration.. ./Pending the eonalderaofthe . vs* 1 * Indian K<JBprvationF, ana tno rcTuovm ortno Indians to Ike Jpdlan Turritorg, the Bonato went Into Executive session, and soon after adjournedIh the House, op the 4th, petitions were presented, asking- Congress to abolish Natluul Bftnkas redeem bonds dbpo-ttnd by theta to security, find Metto 160,600,040 In Treasury notes, end makefile game recallable In payment of cuetom dues and all ot her taxes collected by the Fed eml Government, end toper efi ffHO 000 060 of the »OTufe"!V , SfSt,# 7585 monthly, to Tampico, Vera Crux, Tabasco. Sisal and Havana.... A resolution was adopted, calling on tbe Secretory of war tor all reports made by Brevet Major General Terry, tee on the Cenan* blll was agreed t 0... The Civil Service bin came up as the business of tbe mornCommittee of tho Whole, after which tho House Inlhe Senate,.on the sth, a hill was reported to prant a pension to Mm. Lincoln, with the recommendation that It be Indefinitely postponed.... Other Wile were reported—adversely, the bill to regulate the Importation of immigrants Under labor odnlrMte; With amendments,, a bill aatborlxlag mall steamship servloe between New Orleans and certain ports In Mexico; authorising •he Secretary of war to establish weather gangea, and have dally observations made along tbe Mississippi River sad principal tributaries.;-tThe House resolution for final adjournment on the 4ih of Julywas taken up, and a motion to refer to the Finaaoe Committee was loetr-1# to 81—tod the resol urton was discussed, without action,- until the expiration of the morning honr....The House Osage Indian Land bill chew up In order, and, after discussion, was laid adds without action.... The bill to abolish the franking privilege eame up as the special order, when* motion was made and carried— 86 to *l—to pasa over present business and proceed with the Legislative Appropriation bi 11.... Adjourned. In the House, on the sth, a bill was reported from the Committee on Elections, and recommitted, regulating compensation In case* of contested elections.... The Civil Service bill wee . taken np, and several amendments were bflbred, tod toe whole subject wa* recommitted end ore doled printed.... The Senate amendment to the House bill limiting the appointment of certain offl ; cere ofthe Treasury Department was concurredto. ....The Senate bill to estoillsh an additional land district in Kansas was passed,.. .The Senate bill authorizing the Northern Pacific Railroad Company to bus no it* bonds for the construction of, its road, and secure the same by mortgage, came up, and*the previous question was moved and seconded—7B to 64—when a motion to lay on the table Was lost—sß to 85—and the House adjourned to the 9 h. , 1 FOBEMUL Five more brigands were Beheaded at Athens, Greecq, on the 29th ult The hcftds of the twelve already executed were publicly exposed on the outskirts of tbe oitv. There was np, additional information as yet from the troops in pursuit of the remainder of the band. It was expected they had already crossed the frontier. Reports were rife in Paris on the 30tb, of a new plot discovered by the police against the State and life of the Emperor. Several arrests were made. The steamship Germany xan into the steamship City of Qudbec, off ' Green Islqnd, in St. Lawrence river, on the Ist, and the latter steamer sunk In deepwater half an hour afterward. The third engineer and a passenger were lost. The St. Paul Press of the 2d says that Reill had iqade a proposition to the Hudson Bay, Company, which waa acceded to, and By the terms of which the company is to acknowledge the provisional government as the only legal government existing in tbe Northwest, to advance loans to the government and goads to the soldiers, the company to be allowed to reoccnpy so much of the fort as is not occupied, necessarily, for the government headquarters,and a garrison 6f fifty men, and resume their mercantile pursuits under protection of the provincial government. A Paris dispatch of the 2d says “the ramifications of the plot against the Emperor seem to be much more widespread than at first supposed, and new developments are continually coming to light Arrests continue in all directions.” . A Havana correspondent writes that all, the steamen going to Europe are crowded with passenger* The law compelling persons who intend to go tP the United front proceeding in that direction. A seriaSs rlqt occurpqd. at QißSptfrv France, on the 2d, caused by the arrest of a member of the Intermtlaistd Qoft|ety. Two thousand workmen ft tracked the" National Guard and gemfoMa. s&K<meffJatttod the prison to which the man had beeq. taken. fMrdl frgltf lhair ground^ though a number were wounded, and reinthe ■*>*» *«» There is npreh jnored|driy Lotidtprln regard to the c.otjspiraqy alleged to have been recently by the French ftJwvernment.

Paris Jpjiruti, OfildA of the sth contains a decree convoking -the High Court of Justice for the trial cf those recently arrested for participation in the plot ftgainst thn lljß jbf the Boqpcror v , The report qf hmiater Qllivier, preceding,the, 'decree, alleges the existence of a revolutionary party, having for itooMqct the establishment of a democratic and social republic. Its weapons are .misrepresentation, systematic outrage, calumny, emeutes, and assassinatfeaa. New liberties, so far front app#Mi»gtt»c**Wtfßs frewy ; etc., DOMESTIC. Gold cloM In Neti or the , t g. A fire in Boston, on tho Opto ult., do* stroyed stfifr;fioo worth of pro'jlefty.' fttd rendered one hiindred families homeless. Two firemen were severely Injured by falling walls. - ' Thte Secretary of the Treasury has .dh reeled the AsriWftht. Traaftittfi* at New i Tork to sell $1,000,0001b gold each Wednesday df ’Mayi Cottimencttig May 4; aud to'purchase $6,000,090 in, bonds during the month. >&t ,u. .-m-i -z u*» h • '.,<”l . , . .According to a Salt Lake dispatch of -tb« SOtit i Ulti, drilling and armlniWitinucd thronghrmV' Utah Territory. Glrculars, ordering the Brethren, to convene at the Whrd schodywuie tor drill, were pri-

vately circulated through Salt Lake city on the 30th. Parties who recently arrived ftt Sioux Olty from Fort Sully report the Cheyenne Agency In fall possession of the Indians. They attempted to land, but were ordered off by the savages, who fired over their head a MaJ6r Randall and comrades were prisoners. The savages had killed a large number of, cattle, tho carcatses'o'f which were seen along tho river banks and on the sandbar a The opinion ofthe United States Naval Court at Yokohama, on the loss Jof the Oneida, wsfl forwarded to Congress on the 2d, by the. Navy Department. The Court say the cause of the collision w»s altogether entirely due to the Bombay, whose commanding officer is to blame beyond excuse. The conduct of the Bombay after the collision, in passing out of sight, in not communicating with the Oheida,.and disregarding her signals and , guns, was so guilty and blameable, that the Court can only speak of It as unparalleled in cruelty. . The following is the public debt statement for May: Outstanding • ■ Total Interest... .a 6ft,t22, 775.20 » 5 - Totafl, IncTudtogr intent due and _ umiid 7. $2,654,198,484.7a Amount in the TreAbury: ««*«« «. Coin Iv.s ti SiHV6B6,ai3.W yUTQBCjr,,,...,, .* t., • 8,954,094^)6 Sinking fond and bonds.. 7. r * 88.2tf5.162 68 Otow Sends -.-- - 77,688,600.00 Total In Treasury. sfclS.!»fl,lTO.Bfr Debt, lea* amount in Treaeujry:... $8,440,804,334.35 Debt, lose amount In Treasury on a April! . A 435,863,137.74

Decrease during the month $11,697,793.89 Decrease since March I,IBIQ 17,464,148.84 The following amounts were paid from the United States Treasury during the month ending April 30, exclusive of payments oa account of interest or principal of the pubic d«Bt;_: Civil and miscellaneous : iSvy 1,891.747 90 interior ia Total... . $10,733,63983

A tyftshington dispatch oft the 3d says: “ Cubana, prominent in the insurrectionary movement, lately made overtures tq the Spanish Minister here preparatory togiving up the contest. The most conciliatory; disposition was shown by the Minister.” ■ ~.. i The New York State Canal Board, on the 34, made the following reductions from the rates of last yeay: On salt, 33 per cent.; op oopl, 50 per oent.; on wheat, corn, and, other grains, per cent.; on flour, 50 pet cent.; on bloom, pig and 'scrap iron, 75 per cent- Othpr reductions would be made in the same ratio. Thai bridgp of ibe Hamilton & Dayton Railroad; Gumminsville, Ohio, was burned op the flight or ,the 4thAt a meeting of the Commissioners hr connection with the proposed removal of the National Capital," held ih Bt. Louis oh the 4th, preliminary arrangements were made for a mass meeting to bo held in that city, at which measures will be taken to, agitate the question preparatory to holding another National Convention at Cin-. cinnsti in October, the call for which has already been prepared.. Ex-United States Senator John B. Henderson presided. Much interest was manifested. ‘; General Sherman received a dispatch on the 4th from Sheridan, informing him that the Indians had taken possession of several Shall forts near BUHj*, and tnade prisoners of the garrisons. ‘General Sheridan Eld again started for the front, and this time would go as fhr as Port Sully. There seemed to be no doubt but that the Indians meant Mschief. A San Francisco dispatch df the sth cays the latest intelligence from different portions of the State confirm the fears of a short crop. The drought had been more serious than for many years; Passengers Arrived ih New York city on the morning of the sth, in rix days and grenty-threU hours from’Safi Francisco, e quickest time yet tnade -across the continent. * '; s PERSONAL. The General Committee of the Grand Army of the Republic. hare designated May 30 ea ; the <fey on which soldiers’ graves ahall.bc deoorated. ” ' 4 Alex. Thompson, -coined, who claimed $2,500 from Wm Baltimwa Gitj Railroad for forcible ejectment from, the interior of one of their Been awarded S4O by a jury. The Supreme Court of the United States has adjourned to the first Monday in October. At St Louis, on the 29th ul|;„ the new Chicago Base-Bail, Club defeated the .Unions of Sh-Louis, the score standing 47 to 1, On the 30th, theOhicsgCW defeated the k*inpire«. aim hydfifo 8. i The colored citizens at Kfif Orleans op the 30th ult. fiefebratod the ratification .of the Fifteenth Amendment by a procession, with music, bannerft, trahsparencles, etc. Collector Halley’s defalcation is officially ascertained to he $130,000, His sureties have been notified, th, make good the amount. The following nominations were sent to the Senate oa the 3d: Samuel T. Day, of Florida,Consul at Winnipeg; Osqar Malmrots, df Minnesota, Consul at Plc 7 tou; Thos. H. Peame, of Tennessee', Consul at Kiftgvtou, Jamaica;. Henry W. Smith, Assessor of Internal Rercnue in the Seventh District cf• Ohio; Horatio Woodbury, Collector df internal Revenue in the Second District of Indiana. Tho twenty-first animal meeting of the Ameilcan Me4cal- Association convened in Waahißgton On the 3d. About four hundroddelagatos were pranent, representing most of the State associations and medical schools of the country. Governor Sentcf, of Tennessee, arrived atNishvilleon the 2d, and- pronounced reports of his Intended resignation to be untfte. ■

The following nominations were sent to the Senate on the 4th ; Thomas J. Harrison, Marshal of the Middle District of Tennessee ; William McLennan, United States Attorney for Nebraska ; Joseph A. Wheelock, Postmaster oi St Paul, Minnesota. { t. , Red Cloud, Chief; and twelve other principal men cff the Sioux Indians, having applied for permission to come to Washington to see the President, in relation to their present oofiditlon, a telegram was sent from the War Department on the 4th, granting the request, and instructing the Indian Agent to make the necessary arrangements. The General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, assembled at Memphis on the 4th. The attendance was very large. In a base-ball match at Memphis on the 4th, between the Cincinnati Red Stockings and the Memphis Green Stockings, the score on the sixth inning stood 100 for the Reds to 2 for the Greens. There were over 800 delegates in attendance upon tiio Southern Baptist Convention in session at Louisville on the Sth. Rev. Dr. Well, of Georgia, was elected President. General Walker, Superintendent of the Census," has informed the United States Marshal of Southern Ohio that two women appointed Assistant Marshals by him are ineligible, and cannot be acoepted by the department.

• POLITICAL. In the Georgia House, on the 29th alt., a resolution to seat six members who claim to have been elected under tbe authority of old organizations, Was adopted —B6 to 59. ; The Benato adopted a sesolution authorizing the Governor to provide for the payment td the interest and principal of the public debt accruing priqr to July 1,1870. The Supreme Coart of Appeals of Virginia has decided that the Enabling act passed Vy the Legislature was con*titutional, and that Henry ft. Ellyson, and not .George Cahoon, is tho lawful Mayor of that city, and that all acts of Ellyson, in accordance with the State law, are legal and binding. The Court was unanimous in its opinion, which’ is voluminous and covers every point raised, The New York State Republican Convention, ofi the 28th ult.,nominated Henry R. Selden an Chief-Justioe, and Charles Mason, Charles AndrewA Chai G. Folgcr and Robert 8. Hate for Associate Justices of the Court of Appeals. Tlie Supreme Court has decided that, under the provisions ofthe act of 1824, in civil actions in the courts of the: United i StateA no witness caw bo excluded because he if a party to, or interested in, the case. A decision has also been given that loaning money to the Confederate States, when subscription to the loan was extorted hy fear, and becoming surety on official bonds of Confederate States officers from motives of friendship, to enable such officers, being conscripts, to remain at home with their families, were not acts giving aid And comfort to the rebellion. ult, a motion to reconsider the resolution seating members who were not elected under the Reconstruction acts, was adopted’-™'!! tfiflhThe West Virginia. RepuhJ|canq are to hold their State Convention ‘ in' Parkersburg on the22d of June, to nominate candidates for State officers. At the recent election* in Madison, Columbus and Peru, Ind., the Democratic tlcketo were successful In Indianapolis six Republican and three Democratic members ofthe City Council were choften, leaving the political eomptextou unchanged. In Terre Haute three Democrats and two Republicans were elected, the same as last year. The municipal election in Virginia, Nevada, on the fid, resulted in tiie success of the entire ReinfoUcan ticket i - . The election at St. Louis, on the 3d, for Cfty Treasurer, to fill a vacancy caused by the suspension of Susfrky, resulted in the election of Dan. G. Taylor, Democrat, over DWight T) irked,’ Ridldal, by about 250 majority. i ; ” ; The Republican State Convention cf Maine is to be held at Augusta, on the 15 th of June. . .Judge Allison, at on the 3d, decided Shepherd, elected District Attorney by thirteen majority, oW Gibbons, Republican, at the election in 1868. ' ! -T ' " The Georgia Legislature adjourned on the 4th until the "first Wednesday in July .Governor English, of Connecticut, wa*. inaugurated on thfe 4th.