Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1870 — Weekly Neva Summary. [ARTICLE]

Weekly Neva Summary.

CONGRESSIONAL. Tn the Senate, on the 18th, resolutions of the Illinois Constitutional Convention for the removal of ibe National Capital to the Mississippi Valley, we re presented .read and tabled... Bills were Introduced and referred— snppl- montary to the Civil Rlu’htß act. giving equal lights to all cltixens on railroads, steamers, and public conveyances,hotels, public schoo a theaters, Ac., and providing penalties for infraction; granting land to aid In the construction of a railroad from Chippewa River, Minnesota, to Dakota Territory... Bills were reported—tosuspenddri liking houses in the Die rlctofColumbia. and to regulate the sale of intoxicating Honors; making appropriation for the temporary relief of the poor of the D'»t.rict....A bill was passed, appropriating $225,0X1 for the construe lon ofabreakwsferat Luwea, Deliware....The Legislative Appropriation bill was proceeded with, and several smenSmonts were disposed ot. .Adjourned to the 16th. In the House, on the 13th, a motion was entered to reconsider the bill for pensions to the children of Commander Williams, of the Oneida, which bill had been reported adversely and tabled ....The report of tbe Conference Committee on the Arkansas Hot Springs Reservation bill was agreed t0....8i11s were passed—for the relief of the widows and orphans of tbe Oneida victims, allowing twelve months’ pry from the date ofthe loss; appropriating $325.101, gold coin, to be paid the British Government, under award of Commlaslonira to settle the claims of the Hudson Bay and Puget Sound Companies, the Baird fixing the payment of ftTO.OOO. in two annual inslalwents, the first of which is to be paid September 10th; for the restoration of Captain Dnmlnjck Lynch to the active list of tbe navy: for the re appointment of Lieutenant Commander Joshua Bishop, who had been dismissed .. Several minor bills from tbe Naval Committee were also passed ....Messers Davis, Judd, Degener, Cox and Getz were appointed a commutes to represent the House at the invitation Of the Washington German associations, at the laying of the”corner stone cf the monument to General Steuben, at Schu'zen Park, on the 16 h.... The Tariff bill was proceeded with in Committee of the Wh01e.... Adjourned to the ItJtb. In tbe Senate, on tbe 16th, bills were passed—granting public lands In the State of Alabama to the Decatur & Aberdeen Railroad; granting lands to aid the construction of a railroad from the wes'ern boundary of Minnesota, at the junction of the Sioux Wood Riverwith the Red Kiver of the North, to the Winnipeg district of British America... The bril tu repeal all exist!; g laws authorizing the transportation and exporta'ion of gooes, wares, and merchandise in bond to Mexico overland and by inland waters, and for other purposes. was reported fav. rably from the committee .... rhe Appropriation bill was passed over—S4 to 23—aud the Franking bill wasalso laid aside—32 to 23—ami the hill to enforce 'he Fllteenth Amendment was taken up and considi red atlength... .Executive session and adjournment.

In the House, on the 16th, bills were introduced and referred—to prevent cruelty to animals while in transport by railroads, etc.; relative to the qualifications of Assistant Marshals to take the census, so as not to exclude women; authorizing the construction of a nr'dee across the Ohio river at Metropolis; granting lands for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Arkansas River, along the thirty-sixth parallel; to incorporate tbe International Society of the United States for the promotion of protection to Immigrants; granting the right of way to the Green Bay & Lake Pepin Railroad Company across the Outlda reservation tn Wisconsin; to prevent the extermination ot the fur-bearing animals of Alaska ; imposing a tax on spirits distilled from apples peaches aud grapes exclusively, and to regulate the dis'illation thereof; to increase pensions to invalid sold ers, widows, and minor children; to change and more effectually secure tbe collection of revenue taxation on distilled spirt’s, and provide for the exportation of spiri-s from the United States: granting bounty to enlisted men in ihe Ordnance Corp, who served through tbe rebellion: to repeal the provision of the actof April 12, 1R66, which authorizes the secretary of the Treasury to fund the public debt; for the appointment of a select committee to take action concerning Indian outrages on th* Western a id Southwestern frontiers in viola ion of the Kansas Treaty of 1867 .. A resolution was offered and referred, instructing the Reconstruction Committee to report for> hwith.a bill for general amnesty .. .A bill was reported from the Committee of Waysand Means, aud recommitted, to reduce internal revenue taxes—among other changes, modifying the income tax by increasing the exemption to 5t,500.... A motion to pcstpone all prior nnsfness until after the Appropriation bills are disposed of, thus viriua'ly postponing the Tariff bill indeflfii.itttly. was agre. d to—92 to 75 ...On motion, the rules were susp nded, and a bill was rep irted sh m the Judicb rv Coramitv e and passed—l3l to 41—to enforce the right of citizens of the Uni ed Sta’es io vote in the reveal Sta es of the Union, whobavo been hitherto denied that right, on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude;-... Adjourned. :

In the Senate, on the 17th, a memorial wae presented for a general abolition of taxation on product.iona... .A bill waa reported, ordered printed and p'aced on the calendar, as a substitute for the Marshall A San Diego Railroad bi I*, granting twemy altarna’e sections of l ind on each side ol the line in the Terrtorie'*, and ten sections in any State through which the road may p'Sa....Thc Fifteenth Amendment bill came up and was debut < d at con-iderable length.... Executive session and adjournment. In the House, on the 17th, the consideration of the bill to revive American commerce at d navigation was resumed, and notice given that n vote would be called for on the 19th....Tw0 petl'lons were presented and referred, against Stephen J. Fieid, Jus'lce ot the Supremo Court of the lu. ted States, and Ogdbn Hoffman, Judge de faelo of Uie United States f r the D strict of California, and praying that articles of impeachment be pre en ed against them ... A bill was pre* nted and referred, inc.>rporating the Texas Facile Kauroad Company, and granting lauds then to. ...1 he Naval Appropriation bill was taken up. and debated In Committee of the Wh01e.... Adjourned.

In the Senate, on the 18th, petitions were prvsonteA—for the removal < f political disabilities ; in favor ol tbe Samani Bay treaty ; to make Vadejo, Cal., a port < f eutry; in favor of a slip canal across tbe Is'hmus of Darien ..A bill was unreduced, to facilitate the tran-misston of Asian, Auvtralian end European merchandise In bond to and acro-s the territory cf the United States •Kesoluiii ns were adopted—request.ng the President, to comn niilcite copies of auy c rrcspondence or psp.-rs in the State Uepartmo.it relating to the passage of any English or Canadian steamers through the ,caual at Sauk Ste. Marie; calling for information c iiiierning the recent correspondence ol Mr. B ancroft, Unite d States Minister at Berlin, relative to politic I quest ions in Germany; setting apart the lain Friday and Saturday of the present mouth for District ot Columbia business, and providing for three evening ees-ions in each week hereafter for bills on tbe calendar. ...3he House bill to enforce tbe Fifteenth Amendment was taken up, and ou mo.ion the Senate bi 1 on the same subject was substituted and considered as thu pending amendment... .Adjourned. In the House, on the 18th, » bill was passed, to allow honorably discharged soldier* and Bailors to inter under the Homestead act quarter sections of lands in alternate reserved sections of public land along the lines of railroad aud other public works to which publis lauds have been granted ...The bill to revive the navlgat on and commercial interests of the United States was taken np aud debated. ...A report was made from the Committee < n Elect ions In the contested election case of Wallace against Simpson, from the Fourth Cougre-slonal District of South Carolina, declaring Wallace entitled to the seat... The Naval Appropriation bi.l aas considered In Committee of tbe Whole and several amendments were dl-poaod of, when the b 11 was reported to- the Hunds and pasted... Adjourned.

In the Senate, on the 19th, a resolution was offered, tabled and ordered printed, requesting the President to open negojations with Great Britain to ascertain whether a uilon can be effected of the British North American Provinces with tbe United States.. .Bills were introduced and referred—for the admission of photographs for exhibition Iree otduly; amendatory of the nre-embtlon laws . Bills were reported—to reduce taxation, with amendments; regulating the rates of postage wlih foreign countries with which International postal charges are not established by treaty.. ..Toe Filteenih Amendment Enforcement bill wae discussed pro tntreon. A repert was made from the Judiciary Committee, and ordered printed, upon the resolution directing an'inquiry whether corrupt meaus.lud been used to Influence tbe votes ot Senators on the Georgia bi 11.... Adjourned. In the House, on the 19th, a resolution was offered aud referred, that ths Foreign Affairs Committee report wkatactlon la necessary to com, pel Mexico to tn 11 1 treaty stlpeliuioiis relative to outlaws aud hostile In<.laus....A bbl was reported I aud pasved, tor tbe sets ol buHdin*aiid grounds of cerudii unused arsenate, East aid Bomb. ...The bill to revive commercial and navigation inter-

ests of the United States waa debated, and went over to the 21th.. . .The Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill, appropriating »933,<M7. was taken up in Committee of the Whole, and an exciting personal or hate ensued upon an amendment offered to insert Rome as a place for a Mlnl-ter Resident, after which thu Committee rose and the llonso adjourned. rOEEIttN. A special dispatch from'Paris, May 12, to the New York Tribune, says “theßesult of the plebiscitum disappoints all parties. Republicans and others of the Opposition are surprised at the number of affirmative votes, for they expected not more than 5,000,000 or 6,060,000. The large affirmative vote in Paris was also unexpected, but, on the other hand, the great number who voted ‘no’ in the army equally surprises and alarms the Emperor." The London Times of the 14th predicts that woman’s rights are doomed in this present Parliament. The Madrid government has announced that it will shortly present a bill to abolish slavery in the Spanish colonies. The Marseillaise newspaper, Paris, has been condemned for an offence against the Emperor, and for exciting hatred and contempt for the government, and its publication suspended for two months. The author of the article specified is sentenced to six months’ imprisonment and fined 5,000 francs, and the managing editor to imprisonment for one year, and a fine of 1,000 francs. It has been officially announced by the government that the Kingdom of Greece is now entirely free from brigandage, and that the bands of outlaws who have infested the country for yeais past are at last dispersed. The German Parliament has adopted the Postal Treaty with the United States. The London Pall Mall Gazette of the 18tb, alluding to the case of Captain Eyre, of the steamer Bombay, agrees with the Times in the propriety of his condemnation, and declares the facts sustain the most unfavorable estimate of his conduct. The London Board of Trade has declined to reverse the judgment in his case. The Toronto Daily Telegraph of the 18th announces that the Washington Government had issued instructions that Canada ships should be allowed to pass through the Sault Ste. Marie canal, with all their cargoes, except munitions of war. The Paris Marseillaise appeared on tbe morning of the 18th, aad was seized by the authorities. In it was an announcement that the paper will reappear on the 18th ot July, and that Rochefort will employ the Interval of two months in writing the history of the fast Empire. Recent advices from Heng Kong, via Bombay, give flattering accounts of the prospect of the tea and silk crops, which are said to promise largely above an average yield. The British Consul at Havana has written. to his Government that the Spaniards now in arms are 54,000, and the Cubans 47,000, and that the Spaniards have lost 16,000 men by death since the war began. ~ DOMESTIC. Gold closed in New York on the 19th at 114%. Including the balance in the Treasury on December 31, namely, 1128,463,237, the receipts of the Government for the quarter ending March 31 were $224,837,243, and expenditures $106,005,029. A Washington dispatch of the 13th says the Ways and Means Committee did not agree with the action of the Senate Finance Committee in reducing the income tax to 3 per cent They were disposed to leave it at 5 per cent., but to Increase the exemption to $2,500.

The New York papers of the 13th give graphic accounts of a terrible conflagra tlon then raging in the woods and among the mountains of Sullivan, Orange, Madison, and other counties in New York State. The conffagration extended over one hundred miles of territory, and the loss was already estimated at $5,000,000. In the night the spectacle of the burning mountains was grand and startling. It was feared a family near Deposit, a station on the Erie Railroad, had been roasted alive. On the 11th, the Canadian war steamer Chicora, from Collingwood, with war material, stores, etc., reached the Sault Canal, and was refused permission to be locked through, in order to proceed on her voyage to Fort William.

A St. Louis dispatch of the 14th says the evidence before the Coroner’s jury very plainly showed that the extra freight train which collided with the passenger train, at Eureka, on tbe 12th, was running outside of instruotions, and had used from ten tfi fifteen minutes more of the express train’s time than special orders had allotted to it, and the Coroner had ordered the arrest of William Odor, the conductor, and he was placed in the calaboose.

A Sioux City dispatch of the 14th says a party of Ogallalahs, dressed in clothing furnished by the government, had, called at the cabin of a settler living on the'Nebraska river,” 120 miles north of Sioux City, and while shaking hands with the man’s wife, shot her, then killed her little son, and took her daughter, aged 13, a prisoner. The husband escaped. The excitement in that region was very great. An Omaha dispatch of the 15th says there was a simultaneous attack from the Indiana, on the 14th, along the line of the Kansas Pacific Railroad, between Kit Carson and Denver. The attack was made at different points tor a distance of fifty or sixty mike. It was reported that twelve men were killed, ten wounded and over a hundred head of stock driven oft'.' A New York dispatch of the 10th says ’ that, from the teat authority that cdiild be obtained, sevtral hundred men belongi ing to the Fenian organizations had left

the city on the war path within the pre ceding forty-eight hours. The United States Circuit Court in lowa has rendered Judgments to the amount of $350,000 on railroad bonds, against th< counties of Des Moines, Johnson, Powesheik, Lousia, lowa, Henry, Mitchell, Lee and.Wapello, and lowa City and Burlington. The St. Nicholas Hotel, a large fourstory building at Cairo, HL, was burned on the morning of the 10th. A San Francisco dispatch of the 16th says the crops in California looked unfa vorable. The»e had been frost on the mountains and heat on the plains. . The Indian raid on the 14th extended from Kit Carson westward for forty miles. The Indians, supposed to be Cheyennes, were in small parties of five to ten, though at Lake Station they are said to have been 200 strong. They went northwest, and immediate further trouble was apprehended. The Coroner's jury at St. Louis, on the 15th, rendered a verdict that the collision near Eureka on the 12th was caused by the disobedience of orders and culpable negligence of Wm. Odor, conductor, and Joseph Tracy, engineer, of the extra freight train, in running said train at least fifteen minutes behind the time given them through orders of the train dispatcher. Orders were issued for the arrest of Tracy. A snow-storm occurred in the State of Nevada on the 15th. There were several cases of sun-stroke in New York city on the 17th. The entire business part of Henderson, N. C., was destroyed by fire on the morning of the 17th, caused by an incendiary.

PERSONAL. Quite a number of seceding Mormont passed through Omaha on the 13th, on their way to Missouri. The following nominations were sent to the Senate on the 13th: George W. Dent, Appraiser at San Francisco; Postmasters —N. B. Stone, San Francisco; Jesse Moore, Owensboro, Ky.; Susan H. Burbridge, Hopkinsville, Ky. The return game between the “ Red Stockings,” of Cincinnati, and the “ Forest Citys,” of Cleveland, played on the 13th, resulted in a score of 24 for the former to 10 for the latter. Gov. Warmouth has appointed Gen. James Longstreet Adjutant-General of the Louisiana State militia. The people of Richmond, Va, appeal to the benevolent people of the country for contributions of money for the relief of the surviving victims and the families of the killed by the recent disaster by the falling'in of a court room floor. Sixtyfive persons were killed or have since died, up to the 13th, and many of the families of the dead and injured were suffering for the necessaries of life. The Chicago Base-Ball Club played the “ Bluff Citys,” of Memphis, on the 13th, and scored 157 to their opponents 1. The recent municipal election in Provi deuce, R. 1., resulted in the choice ol Thomas A Doyle, Republican, for Mayor, by 386 majority, over Clark, Citizen, and Berth, Democrat. The death of Theo. Clay, son of Henry Clay, who for nearly fifty years has been an inmate of the Lexington (Ky.) Lunatic Asylum, is announced. The decoration of the graves of Confederate dead, at Mount Olive and City cemeteries, Nashville, Tenn., took place on the 15th. Several thousand persons were present, and there was a large and imposing demonstration. The Chicago Base-Ball Club defeated the “ Greve Citys ” of Kankakee, HL, on the 16th—111 to 5. It has been decided to hold the Republican State Convention of Missouri on the 31st day of August. The President has nominated P. B. Hawkins Postmaster at Bowling Green, Ky., E. Philip Jacobson, IJnited States Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi. A large number of Mormons passed through New York city on the 15th, for the West. A new trial has been granted at Chicago in the celebrated Craig-Sprague divorce case. The Grand Jury of St. Louis has found a bill against the late City Treasurer, W. E. Susisky, for embezzlement, and has presented four indictments—two for grand larceny, one for forgery, and one lor false pretenses—against Adolphe Kroeger, alleged io be implicated in the defalcation of Susisky.

• POLITICAL. In the Virginia House of Delegatee, on the 13th, the proposition to strike the word white from the tax bill was defeated, 22 to 57. The Illinois State Constitutional Convention, having completed its labors, adjourned nne die on the 13th. The Constitution prepared by it is to be submitted to the people for their ratification or rejection, on the 2d of July. A State Mass Temperance Convention will be held at Auburn, Maine, on the 17th of June, to nominate a candidate lor Governor. The Republican State Convention in Delaware, to nominate candidates for Governor and Congressmen, is called for the 9th of June.

In the Tennessee Legislature, on the 16th, the Senate passed a bill on its first reading prohibiting the intermarriage of white and colored persons. The total vote of New York city at the o? i > non the 17. h was 104,287, of which Church, Democrat, reedved 82,191, and Selden, Republican,- 22,188, Brooklyn gave about 9,0(W Democratic majority on the State ticket, and elected a Democratic

city ticket by between 6,000 and 7,000. The indications on the 18th were that the Democratic majority in the State would be about 50000. The total vote was comparatively light. The registration in Richmond, Va., closed on the evening of the IJth. The whites were 680 ahead. At the preceding registration the blanks had a majoritf of several hundred. The West Virginia Democratic State Convention is to be held at Charleston on the Bth of June. The Maine Republican State Convention will be held on June 15. A New York dispatch of the 19th says : * The latest returns leave no doubt that Hon. Charles J. Folger is one of two Republicans elected Justices of our naw State Court of App< all. The other is probably Charles Andrews, Mayor of Syracuse, but it may be Hon. Charles Mason, of Madison county." Ohio is to have a State Temperance Convention, to make political nomination** at Columbus, June 1.