Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1870 — Weekly News Summary. [ARTICLE]

Weekly News Summary.

CONGRESSIONAL. In the Senate on the 20th, several petitions wore presented relative to the communication between the Atlantic and Pacific, via Nicaragua, and for the recognition of the Cubans The resolution looking to a final adjournment was taken up, and, after a long discussion, July 15 was fixed upon, by yeas .36, nays <1 Consideration of the Fifteenth Amendment bill was resumed, and several amendments were disposed of, and the Senate was (till In session, debating the bill, at the time of the close of the telegraphic report, In the House, on the 20th, the bill compensating the officers and crew of the Kearsarge for destroying the Alabama (1190,000) was passed, the money to be taken from the Japanese indemnity fund.... The bill to compensate the officersand crow of the Wyoming ($100,000) from the same fund, for the action off the coast of Japan, In 180.3. was laid on the table... .The Louisiana contested election case of Newsham against Ryan was discussed, and went over till the sl«t .. The Senate amendment to the House adjournment resolution was agreed to, and a motion to reconsider tabled, making the matter final.... District of Columbia business was considered... .The Speaker announced Messrs. Logan, Slocnm and Negley as a Conference Committee on the Army bill. . . Adjourned. The Senate continued in session all night on the 90th. Several amendments to the Fifteenth Amendment bill were parsed, Including one to make punishable all attempts in influencing the votes of the colored people by depriving them o occupation. At length the Senate bill was substituted for the House MU, and al 7 o’clock a. m. was passed—42 to 8. . Adjourned to the 2.3 d. In the House, on the 21st, petitions were presented—asking Congress to abolish National Banks; to pay off bonds deposited by them as se entity; to lino J«X),OOT,OCO in Treasury greenback notes: to pnv off all the $840,000,000 of the bonded debt; to make greenbacks receivable for all duties and other taxes collected by the Federal Government, and restore prosperity to the country ... .The Senate joint resolution to authorize 1 he payment of the full salary of A. P. Hovey, as Minister to Peru, without deduction on account of absence from Ms poet, was passed.... The bill to increase the salary ot the Minister to China was tabled.... A bill was passed, authorizing the Secretary Of State to cause the remains of General Asboth, late Minister to the Argentine Confederation, and General Steadman, late Consul to Santiago de Cuba, to be removed to the United States, the former to be interred In the National Cemetery at Lexington ....On moi ion It was ordered that on and after the 2.3 d abe House meet at 11 and adjourn at 8 o’clock ... The consideration of the Louisiana contested election case of Newsham against Ryan was resumed, and after discussion, the minority report In favor of Rvan was rejected, without a division, and the majority report giving the seat to Newsham. adopted—TO to 72... .Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 23d, bills were reported—with amendments, granting to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company a continued right of way to Alberquerque, and ten sections of land per mile on each side; substitute for the bill to »ld the construction of the New Orleans * Northeastern Railroad, granting the right of way, and ten alternate sections per mile on each side of a line, from York or Meridian, Miss., to New Orleans....A joint resolution was reported to furnish medals to Pennsylvania and Massachusetts soldiers who were first to arrive in Washington, In April, 1861.... Resolutions were adopted—calling upon the Secretary of the Interior for information relating to the St. Joseph Railroad, of Missouri, and also in regard to the report of the Commissioners sent out to report upon the final completion of the Pacific Railroad.... Messrs. Stewart, Edmunds and Stockton were appointed a Committee of Conference on the bill to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment, and Messrs. Wilson, Morton and Abbott, on the Army bi 11... The Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was proceeded with, and several amendments wore disposed 0f.... Adjourned.

In the House, on the 23d, bills were introduced and referred—-to detect and punish election frauds; to reduce the rates es duty on foreign imports, and abolish specific and compound duties; to secure to citizens of the United States the navigation of the St . Lawrence River; for the relief of the pilots of the Mississippi squadron and their surviving families: authorizing a survey of the mouth of the Kock River; for the improvement of the navigation of the Cumterland River; to Incorporate the international Society of the United States for the protection of immigration.... Bills were passed —to exempt vessels engaged in internal and coastwise navigation and fisheries from the payment of tonnage duties; to extend the provisions of the act which confers the right of naturalization on aliens who enlisted in the army and were honorably discharged, to those who enlisted or may enist in the army or marine corps. v ,.The Senate joint resolution to provide for the appointment of an Examiner of Claims for the State Department, and additional clerks, was amended by reducing rhe appropriation from $13,000 to $7,500, and passed... The Senate amendments to the bill to enforce the rights of citizens of the United States to vote in the several States was non-concurred in. and a Committee of Conference, consisting of Messrs. Brigham, Davis, of New York, and Kerr, was appointed.... Reports were madein the Ohio contested election case of Eggleston again-1 Strader, that Strader, the sitting member, is entitled to a seat'; in the Kentucky contested election case ot Barnes against Adams, that the sitting member is entitled to the seat... A Joint resolution was passed, donating eight condemned cannon fori a soldiers’ monument in Allegheny Park, Pittsburgh... .The Army Appropriation bill, appropriating 129.977,897. was reported and made the special order for the 25th.... A Joint resolution was introduced aniV’reterred, embodying a system of revenue and expenditure, and for a commission to examine into the question of taxation.... A motion to reconsider the vote declaring Newsham, of Louisiana, entitled to a seat, was tabled—9s to 77—and Mr. Newsham waa sworn in... .The Consular Diplomatic bill was further considered in Committee of the Whole, and several amendments were disposed of, the one to insert Rome as a place for a Minister Resident being rejected, without di vision... Adjourned.

In the Senate, on the 24th, a memorial from citizens of the Dominican Republic against annexation was objected to and not Received.... A oint resolution was reported and parsed, for the admission of foreign photographs free of duty for exhibition at the National Photographic Exhibition at Cleveland in June.... The Legislative Appropriation bill was further considered....A report was made from the Conference Committee on the differences between the two Houses on the Fifteenth Amendment Enforcement bill, and after discussion, it was agreed that a vote should be taken on the report on the 25th.

In the House, on the 24th, a bill for the reduction es Internal taxes was Introduced and referred....A bill was reported and passed, removing the charge of desertion from soldiers who served out their terms of enlistment and were honorably discharged ...The bill to revive American navigation and commercial interests was discussed it length... .The House, by a vote of 90 to 87, refused to consider the South Carolina contested election case ot Wallace against Simpson A report was made in the Virginia contested case, that McKenzie, the sitting member, was entitled to the seat ...The Consular and Diploma'ic Appropriation bill was considered in Committee of the Whole, reported to the House and passed The Post Office Appropriation bill, appropriating $21,110,(19® from the Post Office revenue, and $725,900 from the Treasury, was considered in Committee of the Whole... .Adjourned.

In the Senate, on the 25th, a bill was introduced and referred, establishing the right of way of the Portage Lake and River Improvement Company, and fora land grant to it....’Hie bill appropriating $200,900 from the funds of the Freedmen’s Bureau in aid of the Wilberforce University was passed... The Consular Diplomatic bill was received from the House and referred... .The report of the Conference Committee on the Fifteenth Amendment Enforcement bill was adopted-88 to 11 A Jo’nt resolution was reported, authorizing the Midland Pacific Railroad to bridge the Missouri River at or near Nebraska City. .The Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was further considered, and several amendments were submitted.... Adjourned.

In the House, on the 25th, the bill to revive the navigation and commercial interests of tbe United States came up, and after discussion, a substitute was Introduced... .The Senate Northern Pacific Railroad Joint resolution waa reported, without amendment, and an amendment forbidding the company to sell its lands to other than actual seUlers In lota of ISO acres, or at prices beyond $2.50 per acre, waa rejected—Tfi to 106— sud an amendment subjecting lands granted to tbe operation ot the Pre-emption and Homestead Jaws at $2.59 per acre waa also rejected, by 78 to 106.... Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 26tb, the joint resolution giving the consent of Congress to tbe acceptance by the State of New Jersey of the Btevena Battery was passed.... A report was made I upon the memorial of cltuens of Rhode Island

upon the discrimination against, naturalized citizens nnderjhe constitution of that State... .Bills were reported—to provide for carrying malls between the United Slates and the west coast of South America; substitution for the bill regulating proceedings for the naturalization of aliens ... The Legislative Appropriation bill was proceeded with, and several amendments were adopted, when the bill was reported to the Senate, and the amendments proposed in Committee of the Whole were agreed to, except those upon which separate votes were desired by Senators-and it was agreed that the amendments undisposed of should be voted on on the 97th. ...Adjourned. In the House, on the 26th, bills were passed—annulling a law.’of New Mexico, which reserved real estate from execution, with a proviso that a homestead only to the amount ot SI,OOO be reserved ; Senate bill creating an additional land district in Colorado... .The River and Harbor bill appropriating nearly $3,600,000, was reported from the Committee on Commerce, and referred to the Committee on Appropriations... .A bill was introduced and referred, exempting machinery used In steam vessels from tonnage duties All the amendments proposed to the Northern Pacific Railroad bill were rejected, and the bill was passed—lo 7 t 086.... A report was made from the Conference Committee on the bill to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment, which went over to the 27th .. .The bill to revive the commercial and navigation Interests of the United States was discussed st length, and a motion to table It was rejected—(Ji to 105.... Adjourned.

FOREIGN. A Madrid dispatch of the 20th states that E«partero still persisted in his refusal to accept the Spanish throne, and a majority of the Deputies in the Cortes held a conference, and agreed to confer the title of royalty upon Serrano, who also expressed an ur/wl' i ngneas to accept, and suggested, as a proper person to occupy the responsible position, the eldest son of the Duke of Montpensier. Baron Liebig, whose condition recently caused much anxiety, was convalescent on the 20th. At Paris, on the morning of the 21st, the Emperor met the Legislative bodies in solemn assembly at the Salle D’Etat, and received from a deputation of the Corps Legislatif the result of the vote on the plebi»citum. In a speech on the occasion, the Emperor expressed his “ gratitude to the nation which thus renews to him, for the fourth time in twenty years, the signal evidence of its confidence." The city was illuminated in the evening, in honor of the result of the plebitcita vote. It was announced in Madrid on the 21st, that Espartero had reconsidered his resolution, and consented to accept the crown of Spain. V ■ The close of the discussion on infallibility in the council at Rome has been fixed for June 20. Queen Victoria was 51 years old on the 24th. The remaining seven of the Greek brigands were tried at Athens on the 23d, and were sentenced to summary death. A Montreal dispatch of the 24th says the government had received information of a threatened Fenian demonstration on the frontier. There was considerable excitement at Toronto and throughout the country on account of the threatened raid, and active preparations were making to resist any attempts at

invasion. ' . , Mark Lemon, editor of the London Punch, aged 61, and Sir John Simeon, M. P., aged 55, died in London on the 23d. It was reported in Paris on the 23d, that a high court 'will meet on the 15th of June, to try those arrested for complicity in tbe regicide plot. Cable dispatches received in New York city on the 23d, state that Espartero finally declines the Spanish Crown ; that the King of Prussia heartily congratulates Napoleon on the result of the plebitcitum; that it had transpired that the Greek brigands, before their execution, confessed that they insisted upon ransom for the prisoners under advice of persons high in authority and wielding great influencewith the Government of Greece. It was thought that serious complications would grow out of this last announcement. A fire in Quebec on the 24th destroyed four hundred and nineteen houses, a

foundry, potash factory, two ships, and a large quantity of lumber. The total loss foots up $500,000, about half covered by insurance. A large number of families were rendered homeless. A Toronto dispatch of the 25th states that considerable excitement still existed in regard to the Fenian raid, but the Government appeared well advised of all movements, and was fully prepared for any attempt at invasion. The volunteer forces were prepared to leave at once, if required.

The Fenian movement via St Albans, Vt, culminated on the 25th in a slight skirmish near Hubbard’s Corner. The advance eompany was from Burlington, Vt., Captain William Cronan. General O’Neill short speech, addressing them as the “ advance guard of the IrishAmerican Army for the liberation of Ireland from the yoke of the oppressor.” As the company approached the line they were surprised by a sharp volley from some Canadian troops whose position had been crossed. The fire was instantly returned by Cronan’s men, and quite a sharp fire was kept up for some time. It is reported that one of the Fenians was killed and Captain Cronan wounded in the thigh. General O’Neill was arrested by United States Marshal Foster, and waived an examination on the charge of violating the neutrality laws, and, in default of $30,900 Ijpil, was taken to Burlington and committed.

A St Albans dispatch of the evening of the 25th, says: “ The arrest of General O’Neill has fallen like a wet blanket on the Fenians, and a report from the front this evening says they are badly demoralised. The Fenians fought well, but it is evident that they were not reinforced as they expected." A Montreal dispatch of the 25th says: “ The Fenians attacked Colonel Smith’s outposts at Frelighsburg. About 100 men, Fenians, advanced in column with the ad? vanoe guards, about,2oo strong. Our men repulsed the attack. Tbe Fenian loss was three kiM and several wounded. Tbe

Oanadian loss so far is none. The Fenians were not fired on until they crossed the line.” The London papers of the 20th comment favorably on the proclamation of President Grant in 'reference to the enforcement of the neutrality laws. A Toronto dispatch of the 26th says the Fenian raid, as far as Pigeon Hill was concerned, was as a miserable failure. The Fenian's were retreating, leaving their arms, baggage and wounded behind them. “ The Fenian movement is looked upon as virtually collapsed. Straggling parties may give a little trouble, but preparations are so complete that entire defeat will attend any further attempts at invasion.” . • DOMESTIC. Gold closed in New York on the 26th at 1147 g. According to a dispatch from Washington, D. C., on the 20th, the party of hostile Sioux who were in large force threatening the Government officials at Cheyenne Agency had disbanded. A call has been issued for a convention, to be composed of delegates from all the States and Territories, and from the District of Columbia, to assemble at Cincinnati, on the 25th day of October next, to consider the question of the removal of the National Capital, and to take such action thereupon as shall be, deemed wise and proper. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has decided that, so far as beer stamps are concerned, there need be no other method of cancellation used than hitherto practised. X

President Grant issued a proclamation on the 24th, setting forth that it had come to his knowledge that sundry illegal military enterprises and expeditions were being set on foot within the territory and jurisdiction of the United States, with a view to carry on the same from such territory and jurisdiction against the people and district of the dominion of Canada, and admonishing “all good citizens of the United States, and all persons within the military jurisdiction of the United States, against aiding, countenancing, abetting or taking part in such unlawful proceedings, and I do hereby warn all persons that by committing such illegal acts they will forfeit all rights to the protection of the government, or its interference in their behalf to rescue them from the consequences of their own acts; and Ido hereby enjoin all officers in the service of the United States to employ all their lawful authority and power to prevent and defeat the aforesaid unlawful proceedings, and to arrest and bring to justice all persons who may be engaged therein.”

The Fenian activity at the East continued on the 24th, and large numbers were gathering in the different cities. ARutland, Vt., dispatch of the 24th says: “ Vermont is again all excitement over a projected Fenian raid on Canada. The excitement runs higher than at any time since the general raid of 1866. Irishmen in various parts of the State are active, and are proceeding in large numbers to St. Albans, where their numbers are being augmented by hundreds from the East and West, and especially from towns along the shore of Lake Champlain, in New York.”

The St. Louis Republican newspaper and job printing office was destroyed by fire on the night of the 24th. Loss $160,000; insured for about SIOO,OOO. News was received in Chicago on the 24th, that the Indians who made the recent attacks on white men along the line of the Kansas Pacific Railroad, had crossed the Union Pacific road, at Antelope Station, on their way North. Several parties of troops wore in pursuit. On the afternoon of the 28d, at Cairo, HL, lightning struck a group of seven sec-tion-men, at work on the railroad track, instantly killing John Stafford, foreman, and injuring B. Cushman, so that he would probably die. Pour others were stunned, but not dangerously hurt. Only one of the seven escaped uninjured. During a severe storm of wind, rain, and hail at Cincinnati on the afternoon of the 23d, hail stones fell which meaw.red over one inch in diameter. Shade. trees were blown down, and a large des,(ruction of window glass is reported. Counterfeit tens on the Central National Bank, of Rome, N. Y.» were in circulation in New York city on the 23d. The Governor of Louisiana has issued a proclamation quarantining vessels from Havana and other infected porta after June 5.

A. Detroit dispatch of the 25th states that the “ Fenian movements in this vicinity are so quietly conducted that it is impossible to obtain positively reliable intelligence. A movement in some direction is certainly on foot.” Private intelligence was received in Chicago on the 25th, stating that the men in charge of the force intended to demolish the British expedition to the Red River were getting on nicely, and would be heard from in good time. There was also information received direct from Riel, that he would hold out until assistance from the Fenians went to his rescue, and that the published reports that he would evacuate the Territory, were false and malicious inventions of the enemy. The New York Methodist of a recent date states that after eight years of unceasing effort, it has “ the satisfaction of announcing the triumph of lay delegation." Fenian movements in the Eastern cities continued on the 26th, and enlistments were the order of the day. A St. Albans dispatch of the 26th says: “ The Fenian bubble, so for as the movement in this direction is concerned, has burst Soon after the MreSt of General O’Neill the Fenian

officers held a long council of war, and decided that it was useless in them, with the small number of men at their command, to make any farther attempts at invading Canadian soil,and, inconsequence, the roads leading from here to Franklin are lined with returning Fenians.” Fenian forces were concentrating at Malone, N. Y., and it was thought a movement on Huntington, Canada, was contemplated, four regiments having crossed the Trout River line in the morning, under the command of Colonel O’Leary. Dispatches received at the State Department in Washington on the 26th from United Stites Marshals along the Canadian border, give details of the gathering of large bodies of men along the line, but the objective point or intentions were not stated. .General Sherman ordered Gen*, erals McDowell and Cooke, commanding the border departments, to lend all their assistance to Marshals in preventing an armed invasion of Canada. The United States steamer Michigan, on the lakes, was ordered to render all necessary assistance to Marshals, and the revenue cutter Chase, which had been out of commission for some time, was ordered to be put in readiness. A Washington dispatch of the 26th says General Parker expressed himself confident that the troubles with the Sioux and Cheyennes will be terminated, and they will go on the reservation without further trouble.

PERSONAL. The following nominations were sent to the Senate on the 20th: Jacob F. Stock, of Minnesota, Principal Clerk of Private Land Claims in the Gen eral Land Office; Andrew Akin, of Kansas, Register of the Land Office for Arkansas, District of Kansas; W. A. Shannon, Receiver of Public Moneys for the same district. M. E. Susisky, late defaulting City Treasurer of St. Louis, failing to give the |20,000 bonds required, was sent to jail on the 20th. The indictment against him is for the embezzlement of $140,000. Word was received in New York on the 21st that John P. Hale is to sail from Europe for this country on the first of June. He was by no means in good health. The Revolution newspaper has been sold to Mrs. Bullard, at Boston. Mrs. Croly is to be the working editor, and Messrs. Tilton and Stud well, stockholders. General Jordan, of Cuban notoriety, was conferring with members of the Senate and House Foreign Affairs Committee on the 21st, concerning Cuban affairs. A delegation of leading Mormons wu in Washington on the 21st, urging Congress not to pass the bill abolishing polygamy. ——■ _ _z* v.t. u a alk ** 44

The house of John Allen, the “ Wickedest Man,” in Water street, New York city, is being demolished, to make way for the Howard Mission. In a game of base-hall at Troy, N. Y., on the 23d, between the Rockford Forest City Club and the Haymakers, the former were victorious, scoring 21 to 8 for the Haymakers. The Masonic Grand Lodge of the State of Indiana met at Indianapolis on the 24th.

Right Rev. Jackson Kemper, the venerable Bishop of the Episcopal diocese o' Wiseonsin, died at his residence at Na'notah, on the 24th, aged 81. j.W. Stevens, ex-State Senator, was assassinated ih the Court House at Pelham, N. C., on the 21st. The President nominated Gilman Marston Governed of Idaho; Charles C. Crowe, of Alabama, Secretary of Utah; James B. McKean, of New York, Chief Justice of Utah. The President sent the following nominations to the Senate on the 23d; Henry A. Bodham, Consul General, Tampico; Postmasters—Henry B. Jagger, Hudson, Wia.; H. P. Strong, Beloit, Wls. Large numbers of Fenians were reporter! on the 28d as congregating at Buffalo. It was rumored in New York city on the 23d, that a force of over twenty thousand left Brooklyn the night before for Cafiada. Two hundred, it was stated, had left Albany for the West. Five car loads of supposed Fenians from Buffalo passed through Rochester on the night of the 23d, bound East A detachment also left Auburn, bound for the East Weston completed the task of walking 100 miles m twenty-two hours, at New York, on the evening of the 25th, twenty minutes inside of time.

The corner-stone of the new branch mint building at San Francisco was laid on the 25th, under the auspices of the Grand Lodge of Masons. There was a large concourse present. The Indian Chiefs who recently arrived in Washington smoked a pipe with the Commissioner of Indian Affairs on the 25th, who made a brief speech to them, with which they were apparently pleased. Gen. John A. Granger died at Canandaigua, N. Y., on the 26th, after a protracted illness. Hon. Richard 8. Field, late Judge ofr the District Court of the United States, died, on the evening of the 25th, at Trenton, N. J. The Boston Board of Trade Excursion party reached Omaha on the 26th, en route to the Pacific. The President has nominated A. 8. Larkin, Marshal of Northern Alabama; Jas. t B. Stover, Postmaster, at Akron, Ohio. POLITICAL. The Republican State Convention of Missouri will meet on the 81st of August. After three days’ balloting in the Tennessee Legislative Convention Thomas H. Bntler was, op the 2} st, elected Secretary of State,

The Florid* Legislature met in special session on the 23d. The Judicial election in Tennessee on the 26th passed off quietly, end the news on the 27th indicated the success of the Democratic ticket by a small majority. The municipal election in Richmond, Va., on the 26th resulted in the election of H. K. Elly son, Mayor, and the whole Conservative city ticket The Conservatives also carried the city of Norfolk by a small majority. Official returns of forty counties in New York, received up to the 26th, show that Folger and Andrews are the successful Republican candidates for Associate Justices of the Court of Appeal* The majority of the former 854, and of the latter 968, over the Rep, jlican nominees.