Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1870 — Weekly News Summary. [ARTICLE]

Weekly News Summary.

CONGRESSIONAL. In the Senate, on the 34tlp bills werereported—with amendments, the Army Approprl atlon bill; for the* relief of the National Homestead at Gettysburg for orphans of soldiers and sailors; favorably, to require National Banka going Into liquidation to retire their circulating notes; a Joint resolution directing the return to the Government ot China of the unappropriated anrplns of J4oo,orn In enrrency, being pari of the snm received from that country for the aettlement of claims of American citizens under the convention of 1898....Billswere Introduced—to dissolve the tribal relation* of tho Miami Indian* after four year*, and for other purpose*; to establl*h tranaAtlantlc postal telegraph service hy the American cables; for additional representation In the Fortysecond Congress, providing that any Btate fn which the representative population or the ninth census shall exceed ISO.OOO or more that of the preceding census, there may he one additional Representative In the Forty-second Congress for each IRO.OOO of snch excess, and for each fraction thereof exceeding 1*5,000....8i11s were passed—declaring thh bridge between Philadelphia and Camden a post rente; authorizing the 840 <KH) appropriation In 1860, for the survey of the Isthmus of Darien, to he expended under the direction of the War and Navy Department, at th*. discretion of the President: designating January l. Julv A. and Thanksgiving-Day legal holiday* In ,tbe D!strfct, of Columbia; to revise, consolidate ■Mpolnend the statutes relating to patents and -vfcpyrights; to establish the Western Judicial Dls--trict nf Wisconaln ; to-require the holding of addltlonaJUnlted States, Circuit and District Courts in Indiana, and concerning District Courts, in lowa iAnAßhe substitute for the House resolution op JCjlqin affairs was taken np and dismissed.... The Aonsldoration of the Tax and Tariff bill was resumed. and the sections to continue the Income Tax were stricken ont—vea*, 84; nays, 23—when, after discussion, a motion was adopted to postpone further consideration of the bill to the 97th .. .The Naval Appropriation bill wa* considered In Committee'of the Who'e. the amendments reported from the Naval Committee were agreed to, and the bill waa reported to the Senate.... Adjourned. In the House, on the 24th, the Senate bill to anond the act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to license pleasure yachts, waa re’ ported and passed.... The consideration of the Gcdrgfc hill wae-resumod, and amendments were disposed of, and a substitute for the Senate resolution was agreed to, declaring that the State of .Georgia Is entitled to representation In the Congress of the United States, that nothing In this act contained shall he construed to deprive the people of Georgia of the right to an election for members of the General Assembly of the said State, aa proyldod for In the Constitution of said State, and repealing the law prohibiting the. organization, arming, or calling Into service of the militia forces In the States of Georgia, Mississippi, Texas and Virginia .. The Speaker announced Mi ssrs. Garfield, Jones (Ky.), and Sheldon (La.l as the Committee of Conference on the Currency Mil. ...A large number of pension hills were reported and acted upon. A bill was Introduced and referred, for th* Improvement of water communication between the Mississippi and the lakes, via Wisconsin river .. Adjourned.

In the Senate, on the 25th, a majority report was mado from the select committee on the petition of Dayla Hatch, in connection with the Dominican treaty, with the testimony taken In the case, and recommending the Indefinite postpone'ment of the subject, when an announcement waa made that the views of the minority of the committee would he presented, and a joint resolution was Introduced relative to the complaints of Davis Hatch against the Dominloan Republic, which was laid over and ordered printed.... The report of the Committee ofConferenco on the Bankrupt bill was submitted and adopted....A bill was introduced, authorizing the consolidation of the Western North Carolina Railroad, Wilmington, Charlotte A Rutherford Railroad, and Spartan hure * Union Railroad, under the name 01 the Westorn North Carolina Extension Railway Company, for the purpose of reconstructing the railroad to Cleveland. Tenn., and establishing a continuous railroad communication between the Atlantic ports of North Carolina and South Carolina and the Pacific Ocean via the Southern Trans-Oon-tlnental Railroad. ...The resolution from the Committee on Foreign Relations on Cuba was taken up, and debated . The House Naturalization bill was taken np, and, after dlscnselon, was postponed to tho 97th upon condition of then being finally disposed 0f... .Adjourned.

In the House, on the 25th, a report was mido from the Conference Committee on the hill to amend the Bankruptcy law, and waa agreed to ... .A bill was Introduced to encourage the building of ships for foreign trade....Senatehills were passed—to change the boundaries of land districts; to Incoporate the National Bolivian Navigation Company; to reorganize the marine hospital renter. and to provide for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, w'.th amendments changing the dates from Bay to Angnst....A report and resolution were submitted from tho Judiciary Committee for the punishment, of Patrick Woods for an assault on Representative Porter, by three months’ Imprisonment In the Jail, District of Columbia, which, with the views of the minority, were ordered printed.... Tho Senate amendments to the hill to revise, consolidate. and amend the patent and copyright laws, were non-concnrrea In and a Committee of Conference nrdei ed... .The Senate amendments to the Bnffalo Bridge hill wore concurred 1n... .The Sundry Civil Service Appropriation bill was considered In Committee of the Whole, and several Causes were disposed 0f.... The death of David Heaton, member from North Carolina, was announced. and after the customary eulogies, and the adoption of resolutions, inclndmg one providing for a committee of five members to accompany the remains t o the National Cemetery at Newborn, N.«C., the House adjourned. , In the Senate, on the 27th, the Tax bill came up as unfinished business, and the income tax section was stricken out, without division, and other amendments were agreed to, among them one to continue the tax on corporations and salaries during this year, and a motion to strike out the reduction of the tax on sugars was rejectedyeas 88, nays 80. .. .The Texas Pacific Railroad hill was taken np and amended sous to make the gauge of tho road uniform at five feet from Marshall, Tex., to San Diego, Crtl, and authorizing the Southern Pacific Rallroad of California to connect with the Pacific by a branch road, and provld'ng that all Iron and steel used shall be purchased laths United States—and the bill was passed... The House resolution announcing the death of Hon. David Heaton Representative from North Carolina, was received, end eulogies were delivered and the usual resolutions of condolence were adopted.... Adjourned.

In the House, on the 27th, bills were lntrodnced—to regulate the manufacture of brandy from grapes, peaches, and other fruits; for the establishment of a Department of Revenue; to punish the collection of Illegal taxes on passengers; to authorize tho issue of 4 per cent, bonds, exchangeable for and convertible Into legal-tender notes, at par; to abolish the tribal relations of the Miami Indians.... A hill was passed, Jor the distribution. pro rota, of all moneys paid or to bo paid by the Republic or Venezuela for claims of citizens of the United Btatos, under the awjto of the mixed commission... A preamble and ' resolution were adopted, directing the Committee of Wavs and Means to report forthwith a hill reducing the present duties on all clashes of salt 50 per ceat....The Senate amendments to the Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill were non-concurred In, and a Committee of Conference waa ordered.... The Senate amendments to the toll for additional terms of United Stores Courts In Indiana were concurred 1n.... The Speaker presented a telegram announcing the death. of the Karl of Clarendon, English Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. .. The Senate bill to change the judicial circuits was reported adversely and tabled... .The Sundry Civil Expense Appropriation bill was farther amended In Committee of the Whole . ..A report was made from the Committee of Conference orrthe Currency bill, with notice that it would be called up on the 88t'n.... Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 28th, an amendment to the Atlantic X Pacific Railroad bill waa agreed to—9* to 20—that neither the original nor present land grant ahall apply to lands within the Indian Territory, end requiring full compensation to own era for lands taken from Indians for depots, etc. ....The Tax hill tyae further considered, and several amendments were agreed t 0... .Adjourned. In the House, on the 28th, bill* were pasaetj—consuming Section 55 of the National Currency act of June 8,18 A4 V which provides penalties for . offences against It, to apply to evory President, Director, Ca-hler, teller, clerk or agent of a National Bank; to regulate the appraisement and Inspection or Imports In certain cares, allowing the transportation of imported articles In bond, except wine, distilled spirits, and perishable and explosive articles,from New Totk, Boston, Baltimore, - Art Huron, and New Orleans, to any seaport, or to Portland, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis. Evansville, urn Milwaukee; Senate bill granting priority 1« Cnlteit Suites Conrt* 10 certain ease* In which a Slate Jr puny... .The “nndry Civil Herriee Appropriation bill was considered in committee of the whole, several amendments were adopted and the I MU wm pasted... A WU waa reported attd retorted

to Committee of the Whole.to reduce 1 be tax on all klndsor salt fifty per cent... The report of the Conference Committee on the Currency MU wa* called np and disc ujsed.... Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 29th, a memorial waa presented and referred, upon the Importance of making a foil appropriation for the LontivUle Canal, according to the engineer’s estimates. ... a bill waa Introduced to divide the State of Tennessee Into two Judicial districts.... A motion to reconsider The Texas Pacific Railroad bill waa defeated—ls to 81.. ..The bill to authorize the Kansas Pacific Railroad Company to extend Ita railway and telegraph line to El Paso, New Mexico, was considered,, and a substitute offered.. ..The Tax and Tariff hill was proceeded with, and several amendments wen egreed lo; the paragraph maklng)the duty on bituminous coal and abate 50 cents Bor8 or ton of twenty-eight bushels, eighty pound* to ie’bnahel, w*s defeated and rejecu-d—lß to 98tbe rate remaining as under tha present law; a motion to strike ont tho flat# on Beasemer steel rails gave rise to discussion, and, wlthoet action upon It, the Henate adjourned. > "*• lit the House, on the 29th, Senate hills were paeeed—amendatory to the act of July 97, 1868, to protect the right ot actual settlers on public lands; to establish the Western Judicial District of Wisconsin; to amend the act to establish and protect national cemetarlea; to regulate the foreign and coasting trade on the northern and northwestern frontiers of the United States; to regulate the effect of a vote Of thanks of Congress "upon promotion In tha navy; In relation to unsold lands In the conntlea of Porter and Lake, Indiana; to establish an additional land district In Kansas; for the admission of photograph’s for exhibition free of duty; giving the consent of Congress to the reception of a certain bequest by the Slate of New Jersey under the will of the late Edwin A. Stevens; for the disposal of lands within the Fort Ridgley military reservation a In Minnesota; authorizing construction of a bridge across the Arkansas river at little Rock ; to amend the act of 1860 to carry into effect the provisions of treaties between the United Statee and China. Japan, Siam, Persia, and other countries; giving certain Judicial powers to Ministers and Consnle, and other functionaries of the United States; to repeal certain sections of acts pasted by the Territorial Legislature or Wyoming....A reBort of the Conference Committee an the 111 for the relief of certain officers of the navy, to atrlke ont the second she-' ilonof the bill, which referred to retiring officers, was agreed t 0.... A report waa made from the Committee onElecriaciaiuthe Mieeourf contestedelection case, t haFßycr, the sitting member. Is not entitled to the seat; aua that Wm. B. Bwttaler, the contestant, is, and notice was given that it wonld be called np for action on the 7ih or July, and the views of the minority of the committee, with opposite conclusions, were also presented.. ..A resolution was adopted, directing the doorkeeper to retain In the service daring the recess the crippled soldier* now employed under him.... Consideration of the Conference report on the Cnrrency bill waa resumed, and after considerable discussion the report was rejected—Bß to 189—and on motion another Conference Comm ttee was ordered.... The Senate amendments to the Indian Appropria tlon bill were reported hack from the Committee on Appropriations..... Adjourned.

FOREIGN. According to a cable dispatch of the 26th, the Emperor Napoleon had been advised by physicians to go to Coutrexvllle tor three weeks and take the mineral baths there. Queen Isabella, on the 25th, signed her abduction of the throne of Spain in.favor of the Prince of Asturias. Captain General De Rodas telegraphed to Havana on the 26th that he had captured the second cargo landed by the steamer Upton, on her return from AspinwalL It was more valuable than the first " Serious disturbances have recently occurred in Cork, and on the 26th the troops and police occupied the streets in force. During the riots barricades were erected and defended. They were finally captured by the cavalry. Many of the police were injured, and a soldier had his skull fractured by a stone thrown by a rioter.

The Earl of Clarendon died quite suddenly in London, on the 27th. Riots broke out in Cork again on the 26th. The strike had become general on the 27th. Laborers in all departments of iodustry were leaving or threatening to quit work, and the situation was considered dangerohs, and the excitement and anxiety were intense. The Mark Lane Ebepress (London) of the 27th reviews the prospects of the wheat crop, and comes to the conclusion that the crop is sate. A Montreal dispatch of the 27th says that a great independence mass meeting was held in that city on the night of the 25th, and the sentiment “ that the time had now come when Canada should sever the connection with Great Britain, and become an Independent nation,” was lustily cheered by the greater part of the vast assemblage. A collision occurred on the Belfast A Bangor Railway, England, on the 28th. Sixteen persons were seriously injured, but none killed outright. The loss of property by the recent great fire in Panama is estimated at sl,000,000. Four lives were lost and several persons were wounded.. It was reported in Florence on the 29th nit. that General Garibaldi was quite ill.

DOMESTIC; Gold closed in New York on the 28th at 111**. • • At a meeting of the Workingmen’s Union in New York city, on the eveining of the 24th, the introduction of Chinese labor into this country was forcibly denounced as a continuance of slavery; and tho Massachusetts men were declared slavers, deserving the punishment of death. Seven thousand four hundred and eighty immigrants landed at New York during the week ending June 25. Advices from Fort Supply, Indian Territory, to June 12, say a band Of fifty to sixty Indians attempted to run off a herd of working oxen belonging to the Fort, on that day, but were driven off and pur- , sued by a company of cavalry, and six of them killed. On the Bth one hundred Indians attacked a train near Buffalo Creek, but were defeated by Lieutenant Bodemer with a troop of the Tenth Oavai ry, and two killed and tiuee wounded. Corporal Freeman and Private Winchester were wounded. ’About twenty animals were killed. Tho- last spike in the Denver Pacific .Railroad was driven by Hon. John Evans on the 24th. The spike was solid silver, and waa presented by the citizens of Georgetown, Cal. Harris Bailey, residing aear Somerville, Tenn.. poisoued Unwell and three children on the 25th, by giving them bedbug poison, thinking it WM whisky. .The

children are all dead. He would probably recover. Shocks of earthquake are reported as having been perceptibly bit in New York city and Brooklyn between 6 and 7 o’clock on the morning of the 26th. A New York dispatch of the 27th states that the Cubans were purchasing war material for another expedition fitting out in that city. The capture of the Upton’s second cargo waa discredited then. A telegram from Rawlins, Wyoming, says that forty-six Sioux warriors passed there on the 26th, going south. They stole five horses and killed one man. Lieut. Young and thirty-five soldiers started in pursuit of them the following night. Fifteen cases of sunstroke) four fetal, were reported in New York city on the 28th. * The Southern Pacific Railroad bill has passed the Texas Legislature. A very disastrous oil fire occurred at Pittsburgh on the 28th. Two large oil tanks were struck by lightning, one of them exploded, and the burning oil es-' caped and set fire to several buildings, other oil tanks and the Sharpsburgh bridge, which was totally destroyed. Total loss probably $500,000. A clerk in one of the oil refineries was burned to death.

PERSONAL The following nominations were sent to the Senate on the 24th: Joseph P. Root, of Kansas, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Chili; E. Stanislaus Goutier, Consul at Gap&Hayti; Joseph C. Bennett, of Kansas, Consul at Chihuahua; Charles T. Gorham, of Michigan, Minister to the Hague. The Boston excursionists left San Francisco on the 24th, for home. The United States Grand Jury at Canandaigua, N. Y., on the 24th, presented indictments against Starr, of Louisville, Ky. of Albany, and Mannix, of Malono, separately; and one against Thompson and Starr jointly. No other Fenians were indicted. At Oswego, N. Y., on the 24th, the Chicago Club defeated the Ontarios 108 to 12. At Baltimore, the Red Stockings beat the Pastimes—Bo to 8. The National Division of Sons of Temperance closed their annual session at Newark, N. J., on the 24th. The Order numbers 1,970 divisions and 87,226 members. The following nominations by the President were sent to the Senate on the 25th: Alonzo B. Cornell, Assistant Treasurer at New York city; Postmasters—George W. McKeag, Cairo, I1L; Wallace. Lewis, Loudon, O.; A. G- Born, Ashland, 0.4-C. H. Winters; Yellow Springs, 0.; James Cork, Waynesbury, Pa.; George W. Merrick, Wellsborough, Pa.; H. M. Mage, Cynthiana, Ky.; J. H. Steffer, Georgetown, Ky. Hon. David Heaton, Representative in Congress from North Carolina, died at Washington on the morning of the 25th. The Red Stockings, of Cincinnati, beat the Marylands, of Baltimore, on the 25th, by a score of 30 to 13. The Chicago White Stockings defeated the Eckfords, of Syracuse, N. Y.—Bo to 15. On the announcement to the Secretary of State on the 27th of the death of Earl Clarendon, the President directed a message of sympathy and regret to be transmitted.

On the 27th the President withdrew the nomination of Alonzo B. Cornell as Assistant Treasurer at New York. The following nominations of postmasters were made: Wm.D. Hitchcock, Alpena, Mich.; W. W. Webb, La Crosse, Wis. A. J. Allen, Berea, Ohio. Spotted Tail’s favorite wife died-on. the 20th, just before the Chief reached the agency. All of the presents given him by President Grant and others he placed in her grave, and it was thought he wonld kill his favorite horses. “Spot” says going*to Washington'was “bad medieine.” Francis B. Cutting, a distinguished

New York lawyer, died on the 26th. .The Fenian trials at Canandaigua have \>een. postponed till the 12th of July. In a game of base-ball at Troy, NT. Y., on the 27th, between the Chicago Club and the Haymakers, of Troy, the score stood on the 9th inning 21, to 21. A tenth inning resulted in 4 for the former to none for the latter, the Chicagos winning the game—2s to 21.

N. Y., dispatch states that at the examination at West Point Military Academy, ctfaduded on the 28th, forty-eight out of the eighty-six failed, and would be sent home. It is said to have been the most rigid examination ever held. At Boston, on the 28th, the Chicago club defeated the Lowells—43 to 25. In Washington the Bed Stockings beat the Nationals in a seven-innings game—3o to 10.

The President sent to the Senate on the 28th the nominations of Edward E. Douglas, to be United States Marshal of Northern Alabama, and John C. Burton, Assessor of Internal Revenue for the Fourth Indiana District A duel w»s fought on the Arkansas shore, four miles below Memphis, on the 28th, between George R.- P Hsian and James Brizriolom, two young mWyers of Memphis, with Colt navy repeaters, at fifteen paces, resulting in Brizziolora being shot in the left breast and arm, perhaps fhtally, in the second round. The game of base-ball at Boston on the 29th, between the Trimountains and White Stockings, resulted in fhvor of the latter club by a scorer of 86 to 16. The grand Musical Jubilee at Belvidere, 111., commenced on the evening of the 29th OR.

The “Red Stockings,'’ of Cincinnati, reached home on the evening of the 29th ult. A Memphis dispatch of the 29th ult states that Brizziolara, who was wounded in the duel of the day before, was improving, and there were strong hopes of hU recovery. a magnificent flag, made of California silk, and designed for presentation to Congress, reached Washington on the 29th ult., in charge of Jas. O. Neanan, of San Francisco. The following nominations by the President were sent tapthe Senate on the 29th ult: J. H. Pierce, United States Marshal for the Northern District of Missouri; Jo>n M. Oliver, formerly of Michigan, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Postmasters

—George M. Ruff, Napoleon, O.; N. M. Hoyt, Yankton, Dakota; George Miller, Booneville, Ma; Charles H. Austin, Portage City, Wis.; Charles A. Holmes, Jefferson, Wis;; Thomas D. Abbot, Laramie City, Wyoming; Geo. W B. Dixon, South Pass City, Wyoming; E. Trask, Emporia, Kan.; Jno. Kensler, Connersvllle, Ind.; J. Osborn, Greencastle; Ind.; a. W. Delong, Huntington, Ind. ;. George F. Coomley, Chenoa, I1L; N. C. Kenyon, Chatsworth, Ill.; Geo. H. Jenkins, Minonk, Ill.; Jno. W. Coventry, Edwardsville, Ill.; Z. Baety, Watseka, HL

POLITICAL. The South Carolina Republican State Convention ie to be held in Columbia, on Tuesday, July 26. The Republican State Convention of Nevada meets at Elko in September. The Maine Democratic State Convention, at Portland, after a long and animated discussion, adjourned on the 28th, to meet at Bangor, August 16. The Michigan Republican State Convention is called to meet at Detroit oh the Ist of September. Hon. William Smythe has been renomi nated for Congress by the Republicans, in the Second District of lowa. The recent Republican Convention of the Eleventh Indiana Judicial Congressional District nominated Hon. Jasper Packard for re-election, The Republicans of the Second Congressional District of Maine have nominated W. P. Frye, of Lewistown, for Congress, the name of the present Representative, Hon. L. P. Morrill, being withdrawn.