Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1870 — Weekly News Summary. [ARTICLE]

Weekly News Summary.

CONGRESSIONAL. In the Senate, on the 3d, resolutions Were adopted, for the aplt<9ntnmnt of a committee of five by the Provident of the Senate, whose doty It ahall be to cooSWrfr tho whole subject of re-' doemlug alluvial lands on the Lower Mlealsrippl from overflow by complete lereo ey»tem..,_A bill) w»e reported, with amendment?, to extend the provisions of the pre-emption laws to Colorado.... A memorial and resolutions were presented and referred, of Israollteaor JUSoa, celling attention to the massacre of Jews In Rotunnnia, and reqnesttne the Interposition of tho President of the United States In their behalf; and a resolntlon was adopted, calling npon the Presloent for any Information In tho Department of State concerning said persecution and massacre. ...The Indian Appropriation hill was proceeded with, and a number of amendmente were reported and adopted, making appropriations to fulfil treaty stipulations, being principally In payment of subsistence annul ties, Ac., or Indian i tribes, and appropriating 180,000 to collect, locate, and subsist roving Indians on the borders of Texas and New Mexico 1 A. A joint resolntlon was Introduced, authorising the Secretary of the Interior to Increase the pay <rf Asalstant Marshals for taking tho census of 1870, toe increase not to exceed CO per cent, of the 'ttagpnt now allowed by Jaw.... Adjourned. the House, on the Bd, a bill was TttßMftl amendatory of the act of May 11, eo as to allow writs of error from decisions In Probate to Court.... The Senate amendment to e Bddjie Deficiency bill was concurred 1n....A roeortUdn was offered and referred to tho Foreign ComnjUte, relating to the alleged persecutions of Israelite in Konmanla... .The Tax bill was taken up, add amendments were adopted—reducing the Incom*tax to three per cent,—B9 to 84: making *tbe exemption $2,000—138t062; limiting tho allow-' ancefor house rent to sßoo—Bs to 45; and amendments were rejected—to confine the tax to invested capital; that income tax shall not be collected after 1870; to strike out all sections relative to Income tax: to tax the interest op all United States bonds The bill was farther considered, and the Jaat section reached, when the House adjourned. In the Senate, on the 4th, a bill was introduced, authorizing the Pacific Railroad Company to take np coal lands necessary to operate the road.... A bill was reported, containing no appro, priattonuf land nor money, to encourage the conatrpctlonter the International Pacific Railroad or Tiiki(|iVAhe joint resolution for an Increase of comprtlffiflon to census-takers was taken np and discussed, and several proposed amendments were rejected.... The Indian Appropriation bill came np, end an amendment was carried—3B to 12—appropriating $30,000 for the purchase of wagons, teams, agricultural implements, live stock, Beeds, etc., and for the erection of honees for Indians In the Northern Superlntendency....Executive session, and adjournment. In the House, on the 4th, a petition was presented, of 120 firms of Lonisvllle, Ky„ for the redaction of the tax ob manufactured tobacco to 18 cents per pound....A bill was introduced and referred, to provide for earryfng the malls between the United States and the west coast or South America, granting a subsidy of $31,259 for each round voyage.... Joint resolutions were passed—giving captured ordnance for a monnment to General Nathaniel Lyons and other soldiers at North Springfield, Missouri; to amend the law appropriating $40,000 for the snrvey of the Isthmus of Darien so that it may be expended under direc- : flak of the War or Navy Department... .A bill was reported for the appointment of an Assistant Treasurer of the Umted States at Baltimore....A Joint resolntlon was introduced and referred, concsrntnf the arsenal grounds at St. Louis.... The Senate btlf appointing managers for the National A-ylnm for disabled volunteer soldiers was reported and parsed.... The Internal Tax bill was further considered, after which the House adjourned.

In the Senate, on the 6th, bills were reported—with amendments, granting lands to aid In the construction of canals for irrigation purposes In California; with amendments, for the lmSrovement of water communication between the llssisslppl river and Lake Michigan, byway Of the Wisconsin and Fox rivers.... Bills were Introduced’ -granting lands to the State of Alabama to aid the •constrScflon ofthe Savannah A Memphis Railroad: to prohibit contracts for aeryile -labor, applying partlcnlarly to Chinese immigration.,..The joint reflation for an increase of tne pay of Assistant Censns Marshals was taken np and amended by providing thatthe increase shall not exceed 50per cent*, of the present compensation nor shall the entire compensation be more than $3 per day, exclusive of mdeage. for the time actually employed, and the' bill was passed... .The bill to repeal existing laws authorizing the transportation and exportation of roods, wares and merchandise. In bond, to Mexico, overland, or by Inland water*, was passed.... Tho Indian Anpropriatidn bill was proceeded with and variously'amended... .The Honse joint resolution granting right of way to the Memphis, El Paso A Pacific Railway Company was indefinitely postponed ... .The bill for,the settlement of claims for qhartermaster and commissary stores fnrntßhed or taken by the United States within States in rekelllim during the late war. came up and proposed amendments were considered.... Adjourned. In the House, on the 6th, bills were Introduced and referred—to facilitate telegraphic communication between the United States and the Bermuda Islands; to encourage building ships tor fpreigwtrade, by allowing drawbacks on Imported materials, and an equivalent allowance where American materials are used; incorporating a branch ofthe contemplated Southern Trans-Conti-nental Railroad Company as the North Carolina Western Railroad Company; for the appointment oT| committee to consider the system of leveeing Mississippi lands; to provide for the payment or loyal claims for property taken or de-siroyod-.by the United States; to provide for repdtrt'-nt levers on the >Ren River,- between its mouth and Shreeveport; to authorize the President to submit a proposition to the Spanish Government for the settlement of the difficulties in Onba, by asbitratlcm pr otherwise < -to prohibit contracts fog tervileflabor; to establish v Freedman’s H omestead'Oontml-slon; to authorize payment of bounty to colored men enrolled as slsvcs; for building n Custom House, Ac, at Port Huron, Mich.; for the Improvement es the Harbor: of Dnlntn; authorizing tho Huron Bay A Lake Pepin Railroad Cokipnnrbo construed and «alntata a bridge acroes thd' Mletrtestppl'Rfverrgriint* ■ Ing public lands to the Great Npahoma Valley Railroad; to ebib6ni*ge <he establishment of a steamship line to ports of Europe, India, and China; to amend the act of Jane 29, 18(18, Imposing taxes on distilled spirits and tobacco, eo as to allow the same drawback as is allowed on a1c0h01.... A resolntlon was adopted—--113 to 79—Instructing Ihe Committee on Ways and Means to report a bill abolishing the tariff on c0a1....Th0 order requiring an adjournment dally at five o’clock was rescinded... On motion, the 14tb of June was assigned for the consideration of the minority and minority report* of the Committee on Foreign Affairs In reference to Cuba... Attention was called to the fact ofthe recent publication of what pnrportod to be the report of the Committee on Foreign Affairs In relation to Cuba, and said publication was stated to be an imperfect report of a statement of the committee read Jn March last, and, on motion, It waa ordered that the majority and minority re- , potta bapnbllehed in the Globe before the 14th.... The Ttfvffr and and tho sundry CtvfTEjfftenste ABpretmMttn bllla were made special ocdftjs w ’«> jpth a«d 16th....A bill dered printed, to authorize tho funding and conSoßddfiOnef the national debt, and for other purpokes. “.The Internal Tax bill was then taken np, farther amended, and passed— 15G to 85.... The Post Office Anpropilaßon -bill' Iras uferen ip, the amendment to make the pay *of MUer-carrlers IliMDWaa Rejected, and nn amendment restrict tog the! hmsr.carrtor system to cities of not legs than 40,000 WSB adopted, an* the Mil wns-passed ....Am evening session was held for general debate ... Adjourned. Iq tha Senate, on the 7th, bills were in* trodacsd—to chunjja tho location of &.curtslu rajlroad'ln Minnesota; to grant the right of way to the Arkansas A Delta Railroad, ab<f to.did the construction ofthe same.. .’.The bill for (he apportionment of Representatives In Uqngrese among the States was made the special order tot ttw 9th.. Tho bill inthorlzing the Secretary of the Interior to change the boundaries ot land fllsiricu, without increasing their number. Wbs passed..... The Indian Appropriation bill was taken up and further considered.... Executive seadlod and adjournment.

In. the House, on the 7th, bills were pained—making Kansas City, Mo., a port of delivery; 1 authorising terms of United States Courts to be held at Helena, Ark. -, the Senate amendment authorising Increased pay to cenans-takerr' .The hill regulating payments of members In easel of contented elections was taken up, de hated and laid on the table.... The bill reported from the Committee on Banking, to lncreaae the banking facilities, and for other purposes, was considered, and various amendments offered and ordered printed. ..A Joint resolution was introdncod removing the navy yard from Charlestown, Mass., to Ktltery, Maine Adjourned. In the flenkte, on the Bth, a memorial was presented flrom’Mr. Hatch, setting forth that Ms rights, s* an American eltlsen, had been violated In arrest. Imprisonment and sentence to death by the Dominican autherltlaa, and that his

release was prevented by tne ln'sfnosltlon of General Babcock, an officer of the flatted States army, who was acting as Oommissloogr for the annexation of Ban Domingo, which, after considerable discussion, was referred to avcclil committee, conslstlng_ of Messrs. Nyo, Ferry, ’ Howard. Williams, Warner, Schurz and Vickers. ....The Indian Appropriation bill was taksnup and . various amendments were disposed of, and the hill W* passed.... The Apportionment bill was taken np and considered... .Adjourned. In the House, on the Bth, bills were passed—to amend the act of May 30, 1863, tor Survey and Sales of Public Lands, by providing that tho money deposited for the Survey shall be credited ad part payment for the lands; to amend the Supplementary Pension Act of July 80, 1868, by providing that persons who lest the nee of both eyes,both bands or both feet In the service, If so disabled as to require permanent aid or attendance of other persons, shall be paid arrears of pension from the passage of that set to date of their disability at toe rate of S2B 00 per month....A Joint resolntlon was passed, directing the Secretary of War to transfer to the National Asylnm for disabled soldiers, in Mtlwankee, six plsces of condemned ordnance, to be placed In the soldiers' cemetery there... The report ofthe Conference Committee on the supply of trUficlsl limbs to disabled soldiers was agreed t 0... .The consideration of the Cnrrency bill was then resumed, and, after considerable discussion and the offering of several amendments, the pending qneßtton being as to whether the bill shonld be engrossed tnd read a tllrdllihe, a motion to adjonrn was carried—79 to 78—and the Speaker announced that the bill would go to the bottom of the bills on the table, thus being virtually killed. In the Senate, on the 9th, notice was given of a bill to allow all Indian nations and tribes, haring rights aider existing laws snd treaties, to sue In United States Courts, with the .right of either party to go to the Supreme Court npon « writ of error or appeal.... A bill was Introduced and referred, to carry Into efifcct certain treaty* stipnlatlons with the Choctaw Nation of Indians.. .The resolntlon to make the bill relating to the length of spans or bridges on the Ohio River a special order, was rejected... .The Honse bill for the apportionment of Representatives in Congress among the several States was taken np, and an amendment increasing the number of Representatives from 275 to 300 was agreed to, and the bill was then laid over... .The bill abolishing the franking privileges came np.and was debated and amendments we re submitted... Execntive session and adjournment. In the House, on the oth, a bill was reported and passed, to punish bank offl cers, clerks and agents who Issue unlawful certificates qf checks... .The Senate bill to provide A national currency of coin and notee, and equalize the distribution of circnlating notes, was reported back, with a snbstiwte therefor, being the Ninety-five Millions Currency bill with the funding and some other Secttonestruck 0nt....A petition was presented from citizens of Cleveland for the passage of a bill to Incorporate the International Society lor the Protection of Immigration.... A bill was reported from the Judiciary Committee snd tabled—lo 2to 62—to establish a sniform system of naturalization, and regulate proceedings under the same... Adjourned. FOREIGN. A cable dispatch of the 3d states that the Ecumenical Council at Rome had decided that the dogma of Papal infallibility shall be proclaimed on the 29th instant, In honor of St. Peter. Extensive preparations were being made to celebrate the occasion. The physicians of Paris report that the practical value of vaccination as a preventive of small-pox, has been professionally demonstrated by actual observation, in that city, during the past month. A dispatch from St. Cloud, received in Toronto on the 3d, states* that Riel intended to resist the Red River expedition. He had 200 men at Fort Garry and 800 on the prairie. A battle was expected near the Lake of Wood a The Chamber of Accusation of the High Court of Justice of Paris have returned indictments against a number of persons, who have been finally remanded before the High Court for trial The larger number are indicted for conspiracy against the safety of the State and the life of the Emperor. Private dispatches from Constantinople received in New York on the 4th say the massacre of the Jews in Roumania was from four to eight thousand. A London dispatch of the 6th alludes to the announcement of the receipt in this country of the reports of the massacre, and sayis no advices had reached there on the subject, and the continental news agencies denied there having been any recent outrages upon the Jews of Roumania. A terrible conflagration occurred in Constantinople on the sth, by which the residences of the English, American, and Portuguese Ambassadors, Consulates, the Naom Theatre, and many churches and moequps, thousands of houses, and -aw richest stores and shops in were reduced tp ashes. The loss of life by falling walls 'was fearful. It was estimated that afjeast thirty people were killed or injured by this cause alone. The loss of property was immense, as the burnt district included one of the wealthiest and best built quarters of the city. It was reported in London, on the 6th that the police were discovering the ramifications of the Fenian plot in every dionly in London but elsewhere in England, and even in Wales, A panic prevailed at Tynemouth in regard to the Fenians. It was reported that they had threatened to seize the castle. Theguacds had been doubled.

The debate on the question of electing a rising commenced in the Spanish Cortes, >4t Madrid, on the 7th. , M. P rovoat Paradol has been appointed] Minister of Franck to thfe Uhiteff and will leave for Washington about the ,ekd of June. There were 173 deaths from small-pox in Paris during the weekending June 4. A private dispatch, received in New York on the 7th, from M. Cremieux, the President of the Jewish Alliance in Paris, says of the reported massacre in Roumanla, that the Jews were expelled, plundered, horribly maltreated, with numbers wottodpd, and some probably killed. This is the first authentic intelligence received of these outrages. • A London dispatch of the 9th says: « Diligent inquiry here on the continent fails to discover any foundation for the terrible stories from Roumania published in the United States" A London dispatch of the 9th states that the alarm among farmerg,'bn account of the continued dry 1 weather, almost amounted to a panic. „ b The Now York Fribunt'toi ‘eiftton oorjespondeni confirms, by on the 9th, a statement that tho alleged Roumanian butchery was simply a students’ joke. i* In the Spanish Cortes, on the 9th, a mo-

tion that the King be elected by a direct vote of the people was negatived, and a proposition was carried requiring that the candidate receive a majority equal to half thq whole number of deputies. This was regarded as utterly destroying tho chances of Montpensier, as well as all other candidates so far named. A Constantinople dispatch of the 9th says: * The loss of life by the conflagration here was frightful. At some {joints whole families were hemmed In by flames and perishing in full view of spectators who could not rescue them. The panic among the people was terrible, and many lost all presence of mind and were unable to save themselves. Others, in despair, made no efforts to save themselves and were lost. Some of the Turks, in a spirit of fatalism peculiar to their race and religion, shut themselves up in their burning houses, refused assistance and met death without a murmer. Twentyfive hundred persons were burned to death or killed by falling walls. Many more are missing,”

DOMESTIC. Gold closed in New York on the 9th at 113&. The payments made' by the United States Treasury during May, exclusive of payments on current interest and redemption of the public debt, were: Civil and miscellaneous, $4,646,026.16; War, $4,664,720.01; N,avy,52,165,082.90; Interior, $673,391,20. The Second Comptroller decides that guardians of minors applying for bounty money or other claims must live in the State where power of guardianship is given; but the. Government may pay the claim on the first authority given the guardian, the receipt being considered valid. General Sully, Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Montana, writes to Commissioner Parker, from Helena, May 25, that the River Crows had the small-pox very badly among them, and were scattered in small parties all over the country. The propeller Wabash was sunk by the propeller Empire State, on the evening of the sth, on Lake Huron, in sixty feet of water. One deck hand was lost. On the Bth, President Grant, in reply to a resolution of the Senate, says the State Department had received no official information concerning the reported persecutions and massacre of Jews in Roumania. The night train from Boston ran into a culvert, two miles east of Summit Station, on the night of the 7th, and three men were killed and several others wounded. The report of the Bureau of Statistics shows that the imports of the nine months, ending March 31, were $333,304,535; exports, $336,340,648. Customs receipts for week ending June 4 were $3,586,661

PERSONAL. A Canandaigua dispatch ofthe 3d states that Fenians Gleason, Donnelly, Lindsay, Cullen, Fitzpatrick, McNeil, Glass and Smith had all been released on bail. Weston, the pedestrian, won a second success in New York on the 2d, by walking fifty miles in nine hours and fifty-nine minutes, or sixteen minntes inside of the stipulated time. A complete statement of the Fenian losses in the late raid gives 11 killed and 17 wounded, three mortally. The following nominations were sent to the Senate by the President, on the 3d: Wayne McVeagh, oi Pennsylvania, Minister Resident at Constantinople; Adolph Buckner, Consul at Bucharest; D. B. Clifle, Assessor of Internal Revenue of the Fifth District of Tennesse. Seventy-five Chinamen left San Francisco for Massachusetts on the 3d, to work in a boot and shoe factory. UTke school teachers’ excursion from California reached New York on the sth, after a journey of seven days. The President sent the following nominations to the Senate; Benjamin V. Abbott, of New York, Charles P. James, of the District of Columbia, and Victor Banenger, of North Carolina, Commissioners to revise and consolidate the statutes of tfie United States; Edward, L. Barney, United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas. k ; The Grand Jury at Richmond, Va., on -the 4th indicted George Chahoon, exMayor, for forgery, and John H. Sands and Richard 8. Saxony, two ex-Cott federate officers, for conspiracy to defraud the State of $7,000, the amount due the State from the estate of Jacob H. Horn stein. Chahoon was arrested and bailed in the sum of SIO,OOO.

| * fboPresident gave a reception to Red Cloud, Spotted Tail, and other Chiefs, on the night of the 6th. In Chicago, on the 3d, the Forest City Baae ball Club of Cleveland played with the Chicago Club—and the game was won by the latter—ls to 9. r The National Typographical Union, in session in Cincinnati on the 6th, elected the following officers for the ensuing year; President, Wm. J. Hammond, of New Orleans; First Vice-President, Thomas Willard, of Albany; Second Vice-Presi-dent, John H, O’Donnell, of Boston; Secretary and Treasurer, John Collins, of Cincinnati; Recording and Correspond-! ing Secretary, Miss Augusta Lewis, New York. ,ii ' Several reiumed New York Fenians have published a card denying that Wm. M. Tweed or Gov. Hoffman paid their passage home. They say that the fares of all who could pot pay their expenses were paid by money raised at Fenian meetings in New York. The RockfoYd Forest Citys defeated the Pastimes, of Baltimore, on the 4th—2l to 11. In Boston, on the 4th, the Red Stockings, of Cincinnati, beat the Oar-

yard Club—46 to 15; and on the 6th, defeated the Lowoll Club—l 7 to 4. In Washington, on the 6th, the Olympics defeated, the Rockford Forest tlitys—l9 to Ift Rev. Datld Reed, founder and editor of the Christian Register, died in Boston on the 7th, aged 79 years.) The President on the 7tli nominated to the Senate Janies B. Delford, of Indiana, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Colorado; Samuel D. Houston, Receiver of Public Moneys at Junction City, Kansas ; O, H. Lawrence, Postmaster at Burlingame, Kansas. The Forest Citys, of Rockford, beat the Olympics, of Washington, onthe 7th, by a score of 8 to 7. Two hundred passengers from Australia, en route for England, arrived at San Francisco on the 6th. A game of base-ball at Lowell, Mass., on the Bth, between the Red Stockings and the Clippers, resulted in favor of the former by a score of 32 to 5. There was a grand procession of Free Masons in New York city on the Bth, on the occasion of the laying of the cornerstone of the new Masonic Temple in that city. The procession is considered the finest display by the Masonic Order ever witnessed in that city. More than forty thousand Masons participated in it The following nominations were. sent to the Senate on the Bth: Postmasters— A. C. Carson, Pine Bluff, Ark.; Edward Shoemaker, Fort Union, New Mexico; William Pollock, Brownville, Neb.; John W. Marshall, Plattsmouth, Neb.; William A. Campbell, Balina, Kansas; J. S. Pillsbury, Manhattan, Kansas. Diplomas were distributed among the graduating class of the Naval Academy, at Annapolis, Md., on the Bth. The five honors were awarded to the following: George L. Dyer, of Maine, Ist; Robert G. Peck, of Massachusetts, 2d; Hawley O. Ritterhouse, of New Jersey, 3d; Henry W. Schaeffer, of Illinois, 4th; and John Hullsuro, of Arizona, sth. Two match games of base-ball, of five innings each, were played in Washington on the 9th, by the Forest City Club, of Rockford. They were victorious in both contests, defeating the Nationals 10 to 4, and the Jeffersons 15 to 6. Among the nominations sent to the Senate on the 9th were: Ezra Wheeler, Register of Land Office at Arkansas Valley, District of Colorado; Mark G. Bradford, Receiver of Public Moneys in the same district; G. W. Wilkinson, Register of the Land Office at Dakota City, Neb. The corner-stone of the first Jewish synagogue in Texas was laid on the 9th, at Galveston, by the Grand Lodge of Freemasons. POLITICAL. Whittemore’s majority is about 8,000. AiWashington dispatch of the 6th says it is not at all probable that the question of the reconstruction of Tennessee will be brought before Congress again this session. Matthew G. Emery, Reform candidate, was elected Mayor of Washington, D. C., on the 6th, by a majority of 8,219. James A. Hovey, Democrat, was elected Mayor of Norwich, Conn , on the sth, and the Democrats carried half the Common Council. The Omaha city election on the 7th resulted in the election of three Democrats and three Republican candidates. Both parties united on the rest of the ticket. The colored candidate in the Third Ward was defeated by about 130. The Ohio Republican State Executive Committee have issued a call fora Republican State Convention, to take place on the 10th of August, and to be composed of 470 delegates. The Congressional Reconstruction Committee have decided to postpone the action on Tennessee matters until the next session. The majority for Emory, the Reform candidate for Mayor of Washington, D. C., is 3,219. The total vote polled was 18,918, falling only 993 behind the registration. The Bowen Republicans elect tws Aldermen and five Common Coundlmen, of whom two are colored. Of the Emory Republicans elected five are colored. The Emoryites are largely in the majority in the Common Council, while in the Board of Aldermen, With those holding over, there is a tie. A San Francisco dispatch of the 7th says the entire Democratic State ticket is probably elected in Oregon. The Republicans claim the member of Congress. The Legislature was doubtful, with indications of a Democratic majority of five to eight on joint ballot. Garfield, Republican, is elected to Congress from Washington Territory. »

The lowa Democratic Btate Convention is called to meet at Des Moines on the 10th of August Governor Baldwin has called the Michigan Legislature together in extraordinary session, on July 27th, to consider the subjects connected with the railroad aid decision, which will be submitted to them in special session. Borne action is to be taken in the form of a constitutional amendment. In the regular procedure such amendment could not be submitted till 1872. The proclamation states that he will lay the specific business before the Legislature in a special message. flCi Treadwell Sayres contests the election of Hon. J. R. Morgan, as Chancellor at Memphis, Tenn., on the ground of frauds, and that the election should have been held in August The West Virginia Democratic Convention, held at Charleston on the 9th, nominated John J.. Jacobs, of Hampshire county, for Governor. A Salem, Oregon dispatch, received In San Francisco on the J9tb, says the Republicans conceded the State to the,Democrats by about 400. The Legislature is

Democratic on joint ballpt, thereby defeating Williams for the United Btides Seriate, The negroes-voted unmolested. The colored citizens of Rock Island and Davenport Intend to celebrate the. ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment by. a grand turn-out and banquet onthe Fonrth of July. . The Democratic Executive Committee in North Carolina have nominated Hon. William M. Shipp, of Mecklenburg, for Attorney General. Hon. Lafayette S. Foster has been elected by the Connecticut House of Representatives Judge of the Supreme Court of that State. The Republican caucus Of the New Hampshire Legislature, on the 9th, nominated Hon. Aaron H. Cragin for reelection as United States Senator.