Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1870 — Weekly Mews Summary. [ARTICLE]

Weekly Mews Summary.

CONGRESSIONAL. In the Senate, on the 80th, the House amendments to the Senate bill to prevent the extermination of fnr-bearlng animals In Alaska were concnrred 1n....A Joint resolution Was reported, authorizing the exploration and survey of the Tehuantepec and Nicaragua route for a ship canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.... Reports of Conference Committees on the Joint resolution for the relief of officers of the navy, and on the bill to amend the granting thh right of way to ditch and canal owners over public lands, were concurred In Bills were Introduced —to amend the Homestead act, allowing soldiers, sailors, and marines, who served a year In the war of the rebellion, to receive patents for homesteads upon, two years’ residence; authorizing the adjudication, by the United States Courts, of Mexican land claims not passed upon by the land commission of 1851; authorizing the Alabama A Chattanooga Railroad, the Vicksburg * Meridian Railroad and North Louisiana A Texas Railroad to consolidate for the purpose of forming a Junction with the Texas Pacific road at Marshall, and granting to said roads twenty sections of land per mile.... The Tax bill was proceeded with, and several amendments were agreed t 0.... Adjourned. In the House, on the 80th, a bill was Introduced, to change the time of holding Circuit and District Courts of the United States in Use Northern District of 0hi0... .Several of the Senate amendments to the Indian Appropriation bill were non-concurred tn, and a Conference Committee, consisting of Messrs. Sargent, Beck, and Clarke, of Kansas, was appointed.... Bills were passed—making Jersey City a port of entry; substitute for the Senate bill for the improvement of water communication between the Mississippi River and Lake Michigan by way of the Wisconsin and Fox Rivers; to smend tbe act authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River, on the military reservation at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, requiring the spans of the draw to be not less than SOO feat la tbe clear on each aide of ibe central pivot; to amend the act of July 18, ISOS, further to prevent smuggling, relating to ship stores purchased at Canadian porta; Senate bills, to constitute Omaha a port es delivery, and for the relief of pre-emption settlerein Nebraska... .Bills were reported—reciting a project for cutting a ship canal across Cape Cod, at an expense of $7,000,000, and pledging the faith of the government to construct a breakwater and harbor of refuge at the eastern entrance, the expense not to exceed $2,000.000; granting the Bvaasyllle * Southern Illinois Railroad Company the right to build a bridge acroea the Big Wabash xfflnsswaemfc fled under the Fourteenth Amendment,* 1 and that the Governor be notified of the. vacancy, and that Zeigler, the contestant, be allowed the expenses of the contest; and the views of the minority were presented, declaring Rice Justly entitled to the seat.. ..The bill for refunding and consolidating the national debt was considered, and several proposed amendments were disposed of.. .Messrs. Field, Packet and Knott were announced aa a Conference Committee on the National Currency bi 11.... Adjourned. In the Senate, on the Ist, the House bill to change the time for holding terms of the District and Circuit Courts of the Northern District of Ohio was passed.... The House amendments to tbe bill for the Improvement of water communication between the Mississippi River and Lake Michigan vie the Wisconsin and Fox rivers, wore concurred 1n....8i11s were reported to promote railroad communications in the Southern States; establishing the right of way of the Portage Lake Improvement Company, and granting lands for the Improvement of Sturgeon 8ay.... The Tax bin was taken up, and an amendment to tax Incomes derived from United States bonds Avo per cent, wan rejected-IS to >8; the bill was reported to the Senate, and the amendment striking ont the Inebme tax sections was concurred In-Ad to >l—and a motion te reconsider was subsequently made and carried, and an amendment was offered and adopted—ST to >l—continuing the Income tax until tbe end of IST2, at the rate of 2% per cent, instead of sper eent.; the question then being on striking ont ths sections imposing the Income tax, as amended, ths Senate refused to strike them out —22 to 26—thus reversing Ito former action.... Adjourned. In the House, on the let, the Senate Aimed. bill, to grant the right of way to a road through public lands In California, was passed.... Several private bills were passed... .A resolution was adopted—requesting the President to demand of the British Government nnder what pretense or right, and nnder whoso order, American fishing vessels have been arrested and detained In the Straits of Canto, on the way to the fishing grounds, by vessels tying the British flag.... Consideration of the Funding bill was resumed, and after disposing of several proposed amendments, the House bin was adopted as a substitute for the Senate bill ....Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 2d, bills were reported—granting condemned ordnance for Soldiers’ monuments to various towns throughout the country; amendment to the River and Harbor Appropriation bill; to establish a trans-Atlantic postal telegraph service by an AmericanMbie.,.. A report was submitted and adopted from the Committee of Conference on the bill amendatory of the Patent and Copyright laws. ...A motion to take a recess till the Sth was rejected—W to 28 ....A report wm made from the* Committee of Conference on the Indian Appropriation bill, that the committee was unable te agree In consequence of the flat denial of the House of tbe authority of the Senate to make treaty stipulations with Indian tribes which should bind the House, and a new Committee of Conference Was ordered....Tbe report of the Committee Of Conference on tbe bill to define the duties of Pension Agents was adopted....A Committee of Conference was appointed upon the Post-Office Appropriation bi 11... .The bill to amend the naturalisation laws and pnnleh crimes against them was taken up and debated, and an amendment to strike the word “white” out of all acts of Congress relative to naturalization, so that there may be no dletlnetlon on account of race or color, was agreed to—27 to 22.... Adjourned. ,

In the House, on the 2d, a petition tna presented from business men of Cincinnati against a change of time when a reduction of duties shall take place under the Tax and Tariff Mil, and a prayer that the date fixed at December M, 1870, he retained.... Sills were passed-to forbid the conveyance of Indian reservations by treaty to any other grantee than ths United States; authorising applicants under the Homestead act, when prevented by distance or other good cause from personal attendance at the District Land Office, to make affidavit and proof before the Clerk of a County Court, and transmit the same with fees, by mall, to the Register and Receiver of the Land Office; for the protection of settlers on lands of the United States, providing that when any person entitled to avail himself of the benefit of the Pre-emption or Homestead laws, has made a bonaj /!•/* settlement on lands subject thereto, such settlement shall be deemed to create a contract between the government and settler, and his claim shall constitute a vested right of property; to prevent the Inrtber sales of public lands in the Territory of Dakota, except under the Preemption and Homestead lawn: also, similar laws applying to Nevada, Nebraska, California, Kansas, Arkansas, and Utah; declaring forfeited to the United States lands granted to the State of Louisiana tn IPBB, for the JNew Orleans, Opelousas A Great Western Railroad; to extend the wood screw patent Of Thomas 'Harvey; for the extension of the patent of Anson Smith for Improvement In plows; to incorporate the United States Freehold. Land and Emigration Company, and confirm certain legislation in Colorado Territory. ... A report wu made and agreed to, from the Conference Committee on the *lll to revise, consolidate and amend the patent and copyright laws.... The House agreed to a second conference on the Indian Appropriation bill, and Messrs. Hergert, Niblack and Paine were appointed as Conference Committee.... The Louisiana election case of Darrall against Bailey wa* taken np, and the resolution of the minority Was re* jected, Mto 97, and that of the SMjoriiy, giving the seat to Darrall. adopted—<l7 to M... - A report was made and agreed to. from the Conference Committee on the bill to establish an additional land district in Kansas... .Adjourned to the fith. In the Senate, on the 4th, the Funding bill was received from the House and referred to the Finance Committee....A Joint resolution was reported, fee tie the Cherokee Indians, In North Carolina, to the Indian Territory, anu providing for the payment to each Indian of 153. with intoseet thereon, as stipulated in the treaty of prlation*....A resolution offncairy into the removal of Collector Carey, of New Orleans, the management of the Cuet om House there sines 18« s, etc , was adopted,. ..The Naturalisation hUI was taken up, the vote by which the amendment striking the word white from the Naturalisation laws was adopted was reconsidered. and the amendment was rejected—l 4 to fiO-smd an amendment was adopted-31 to fid-to extend the Naturallsa- . tlon law* to aliens of African nativity and persons of African descent; the bill was then reported to the Senate at amended, and pawed.... Adjourned. In the Senate, on the Bth, the bill grantlOgHmdstpUw sUt* Of MUnesoU to fill in th*

Improvement of the harbor at Dnlnth was passed /...The House amendments to the Funding bill were disagreed to. and a Committee of Conference was ordered,.. .The House bin to declare the construction of section 6# of the National Currency act, approved June 18,1864. was reported without amendment ...A bill was introduced and referred, to incorporate the Tehuantepec Railroad and Ship Chnal Company, with a capital of S 3 ',100,000, and with power to acquire from the Mexican Goverpment all the franchises and privileges it may grant ‘..■..The Tax and Tariff bill was proceeded with, and an amendment continuing the present taxon gross receipts was rejected—l 7to 83—and a motion to strike ont the Income tax sections was also rejected by a tie vote—26 to 26—when, after other amendments were disposed of, the bill was passed —4O to 1.... Adjourned. In the House, on the Sth, the Conference report on ths bill granting right of way over public lands In California to ditch and canal owners, was agreed t 0... .Majority and minority reports were made from the Select Committee on. Postal Telegraph, oe the bill to establish a postal telegraph system, and to incorporate postal telegraph companies, thc majorlty report favoring the bill, and. Ute bill was ordered printed.... The Kentucky contested election case of Carnes against Adams was discussed, and the seat was awarded to Adams, the sitting member, without a division, and five thousand dollars were voted for the expenses of the contestants....A bill was passed to nsy arrears of pensions to some hundred persons named therein,who have not made applications within the time required by 1aw.... The Virginia contested election matter of Tucker against Booker was discussed and tabled—99 to M. ...Adjourned.

In the Senate, on the 6th, bills were passed—for the relief of the United States and Brazil Steam Navigation Company; Incorporating the United States Freehold and Immigration Company, and to confirm certain legislation In the Territories of Colorado and New Mexico; for refunding to Massachusetts interest due'.on advances to the United States during the war of 1812; the Honea River and Harbor Anpropristion tuit, with .•WM4mo<ite....A petition was presented for the incorporation of colored people of Memphis under the name of the American Uncoln Association ....An amendment was reported to the bill Incop porating the Extension Railroad Company,... Messrs. Sherinan, Sumner and Davis were announced as tbe Conference Committee on the Funding bi11....A report was made and adopted from the Conference Committee on the Currency bill, the bill being the same as passed by the Senate, except that the amount of new currency was fixed at $54,009,C00, instead of $45,000,000.; ..Adjonrnqd. In the House, on the 6th, bills were introduced—granting lands to the New Orleans & Selma Railroad and' 'Emigrant Association; to amend the act of 1864, granting lands for rtllroad purposes in Iowa; in aid of the American Cable Company.... Bills were passed—the Post Route bin; repealing the act of June 12.1666, which confirmed the grant of certain lands to Joseph E. Domnagues in California; tocede to the State of Ohio the unsold lands in the Virginia Military District; confirming the title In St. Clair County, Hl., to certain United States lands therein; relinquishing to the corporation of Fremont. Ohio, a certain parcel of ground In Fremont county; authorizing the Issuing to Stephen Marston, of Hartford, Conn., a patent for certain lands in Michigan; to make the Territory of Arizona a separate surveying district, and establish the office of Surveyor General therein: to vacate the Fort Dakota military reaervatlon In Dakota; Senate bill to create a port of delivery at Duluth, with amendment attaching Duluth to the collection district of Lake Superior instead of NewOrleana; to pay $25,000 to the daughters of Jethro Woods, the inventor of the cast-iron plow; carrying into effect decrees of certain courts in oases of English veSsels illegally seined by the United States cruisers; authorizing G. W. Dick, of Butler county, Ohio, to Import from Scotland, ,free of duty, a common road eteam locomotive for experimental purposes; to allow the Secretary of the Treasury to Increase the pay of Inspectors of Customs; to construe the act of March 81, 1868, chapter 41, so as not to prohibit the drawback provided for by Section 6 of tbe act of July 18, 1886, Chapter 184, of as many cents per pound of cotton cloth, yard of thread or knit artlclsa,manufactured exclusively from cotton, and exported prior to May 1. 1869, aa shall have bean assessed and paid in the form of an Internal tax on the raw cotton entering Into tbe manufacture of such cloth and other articles.... The Deficiency bill, appropriating $1,725,488, was reported and made the special order for the 7th....A majority report was made from the Committee on Elections in the Indiana contested election case of Recd against Julian, that Mr. Julian, the sitting member, was duly elected, and is entitled to retain his seat, and that Reed should bo paid the expenses incurred by him; and a minority report, taking opposite views, was also pressnted....A resolution was adopted calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for a statement as to the public debt since the organization of the government....A motion to reconsider the vote in the Louisiana contested election case wae tabled—96 to 77—and the oath of office admlnletered to Darrall, and $4,000 was voted to Bailey for expenses, as wall as $2,000 to Tutker, the contestant of Booker’s seat from Virginia A report was made and agreed to from the Conference Committee on ths Pension Appropriation bi 11... .Adjourned.

In the Senate, on the 7th, numerou«lyeigned petitions zgulnst the continuance of the Income tax were presented and tabled.... The Conference report eq the bin relative to the navy Ssnslon fund was agreed lb ...A bill was Introuced and referred to regulate rank in the navy ....A resolution was adopted requesting the President to Inquire into the present condition of the commercial relstldtis between the United States and the Spanfeh-Amdrlcan States oh this continent, and between these countries and other natlnns.and communicate to the Scna'e full and complete statements regarding the same, together with such recommendations as he may think necessary to prbjnpte the development of and Increase <mr commerce with those regions.... Blits were paseed—eeveral House bills, Including that requiring National Banks gqing into liquidation to retire their c&cnlatlng notes; Naval Appropriation bill, with amendments; Fortification Appropriation bill; to fix the Tuesday after the first Monday of November as the uniform day for the election of Representatives In Congress, beginning lb 1878, with amendments, fixing the number of Repreaentatlves at 300, and providing that any State having a fractlun of population exceeding one halt the amount required for a Representative shall be entitled to an additional Representative ; concerning the Arsenal Grounds In St. Louts; authorizing the improvement of certain grounds owned by the United States in Buffalo.... Bills were reported—to incorporate the Tehuantepec Railway and Ship Canal Company; authorizing mail steamship service between Cedar Keys. Fla., andHavsua; to divide Virginia Into two Judicial Districts; granting lands to tbe Lincoln City and Loupe Fork Railway ....The report of the Committee of Conference on the Army bill was discussed and tabled—29 to 18. ...Adjourned.

In the House, on the 7 th, the Senate amendment to the House bill to Incorporate the United States Freehold and Immigration Company, and confirm certain legislation In Colorado Territory, was concurred 1n.... Messrs. Schenck, Hooper (Mass ), and Brooks (N. Y.) were announced M a Committee of Conference on the Funding Mil, and the Senate amendments to Iks'. Tax bill were referred to the Committee of Ways, and Means.. .The consideration of the cue of Patrick Woods, 1n custody for an assault ou Mr. Porter, member from Virginia, was resumed, and the resetetton of,the majcnly of the Judiciary C«mmlttee, atrectfng that Woods be imprisoned In the Jail of the,District of Columbia three»aattis, was agreed to—yeas, 119; nays, 57.. ..A report wsu made and adopted—loo to 70—from the Conference Committee outhe Currency NU....A resolution to pay contestants for seats, as follows: Henry Foster, $8,500 W. D. Slmnaon, »I,M», and Charles WhltUeaey, $1,500, was adopted....A resolution was reported from the Committee on Elections that the Arkansas contested election case of Cameron against Roote be tabled... A bill was reported to promote trade with Prince Edward’s Island....ln the Missouri contested election case of Swltzeler against Dyer, a substitute for the majority and ■Minority reports of the Election Comaittee was agreed to, by which Dser retains hie seat and jt* resolution was adopted to pay Bwlrefer $5,C00. .A bill was introduced and referred, to Incorporate the Tehuantepec Railroad and Ship Canal Company.... Adjourned. * * ' FOREIGN. Dominion Day (July 1) was obfierved throughput Canada aa a grand holiday. The French Emperor was in mourning* eight days in consequence of the death of Jerome Bonaparte, of Baltimore. A sharp shock of earthquake was experienced throughout Greece on the Ist. The town of Sartoria is a heap of ruins. An island in that neighborhood suddenly disappeared at the time of the shock. The editor of the Paris Rewille has been prosecuted for having reproduced a false anecdote of the Emjjeror and Earl of Clarendon from the Jtyarc. M> Delei-

clusee, editor-in-chief of the Rewille, has been sentenced to thirteen months’ imprisonment. The Manchester, Eng., Bxaminer applauds the idea of an American monument to Charles Dickens, but assumes that the project will be dismissed when Dickens’ objections to such honors are folly known. Eighteen thousand emigrants left the port of Liverpool during the month of June for various American ports. Ninetenths of them went to New York. The French Court has gone into mourning for the death of the Baltimore Bona-

( parte. The Americans in Paris celebrated the Fourth of July, and the festivities were largely attended. Orders have been sent to Sherbrooke for the release of the so-called Fenian General McNamara, there not being sufficient evidence to warrant his detention. Ex-Queen Isabella has had official notice conveyed to all foreign courts of her abdication.

The heat in Paris was again intense on the sth. The late rains were light, and afforded only temporary and partial relief from the drought. In Brittany the drought was so severe that farmers were selling cattle at two cents per pound. On the sth, the (Ecumenical Council adopted the preface and first two chapters of the infallibility scheme. It was announced in Madrid on the Sth, that the Prince of Hoheniollern had accepted the offer to the Spanish throne. The yachts Cambria and Dauntless started on their ocean race on the 4th. The Loudon Momivg Pool of the 6th has a telegram dated at Teintsin, June 25, giving the particulars of a terrible massacre of Christians by the natives of Pzkin, on the 21st of that month. The Count De Rochelhouart, the French Secretary of Legation, and a number of Priests and Sisters of Mercy were ruthlessly slaughtered. The cathedral was burned, and a number of Russians killed. The Fourth was appropriately celebrated at Berlin and other German cities. A London dispatch of the 6th says: “Prince Leopold, of Hohenzollern, has formally accepted the Spanish throne. The English government approves, but France still objects.”

Great excitement existed in Paris on the 6th because of the reported acceptance by Prince Leopold of the throne of Spain. The Conetitutionnd says; “We learn that the government would consider the Spanish enthronement of the Prince of Hohenzollern as a check and menace to France. Under these circumstances the government has decided to energetically oppose the project.’’ It was asserted that the French Minister at Berlin had been recalled. In the Corps Legislatif the Duke of Grammont sail the French Government would persist in its policy of neutrality, but under no pretext would it permit a German power to place one of its Princes on thethrone of Charles the Fifth. He hoped, however, that prudence in Germany and wisdom in Spain would avert extremities. At a meeting of the Spanish Cabinet on the 7th Regent Serrano and his Ministers unanimously confirmed General Prim’s selection of Prince Leopold for the future King, of Spain. , Dispatches from Paris on the 7th say there was a strong feeling in France, even outside of official circles, against the bestowal of the Spanish crown upon any Hohenzollern. It was asserted in wellinformed Circles that an alliance between France and Austria had been concluded. There was much excitement in London and on the continent, on the 7th, in view of the threatened European complications on the subject of Prince Leopold’s candidature for the Spanish throne. The reported massacre of the French in Pekin was confirmed on the 7 th.

DOMESTIC. Gold closed in New York on the 7ih Cqstoms receipts for week ending June 25,18,061,088. Receipts of internal revenue for June, $25,468,750; for the fiscal year, $188,792,874. «. . ’ Revenue officers in New York city argue that the Income law includes this year, so that they shall assess and collect next spring for 1870. At a meeting of citizens and workingmen in Boston, on the afternoon and evening of the 29th ult., speeches were aade and resolutions passed against the trodnetion of Chinese labor into thie Country. The Methodist (N. Y.) for week ending July 2 learns by a cable dispatch that the German and Swiss Conference had cast sll its votes—thirty-nine—for lay delegation. “ The total affirmative vote of the ministry, by this addition, reaches 4,946. Total negative remains at 1,589, and the grand aggregate becomes 6,585. Threefourths of 6,535 is 4,901, or 450 less than 4,946, the affirmative vote. This puts the result beyond all contingency.” A fire broke out in a kindling-wood factory in New York city on the Ist, and communicated with several* lumber yards in the vicinity, a ben factory, machine shops, etc., on Green, Washington and other streets, and property to the yalue of $1,000,000 was destroyed. The Secretary of the Treasury has directed the Assistant Treasurer at New York to sell a million of gold each Wednesday of July, the first and third Mies on account of the special fond, and the second and fourth on account of the sinking fond. Also, to purchase a million of bonds on the first and third Thursdays on account of the sinking fund, and two millions on the second and fourth Thursdays on account cf the special fond. A Washington dispatch of, the 2d states

that, according to dispatches received from Gen. Sheridan, dated the Ist, Indian affairs at the West looked threatening. The delegate? from the various Trades’ Unions in New York city held an AntiChinese meeting on the night of the 2d, and formed a secret organization for political and co-operative purposes, called the Workingman’s Friendly Society. The town of Orville, Cal, was nearly destroyed by fire, on the 2d. The buildings were wooden, and burned rapidly, and the people barely escaped the flames. The loss is heavy; partly insured. The scene of the execution of the murderer, Lewis Kennedy, at New Kent Court House, Va., on the Ist, was a horrible one. The rope broke twice, and the miscreant died after a prolonged struggle. The following is a summary of the public debt statement for July: Total dent, principal and Interest, including interest due and unpaid $2,001,675,127 Bonds to Pacific Railroad 64,457 320 Grand total...’ * <2,666,132,447 Amount in the Treasury: Coin 112,770,040 Currency 28,245,0(17 Sinking fund, in United States coin, interest bonds and accrued interest thereon 87,665,102 Other United States coin Interest bonds, purchased and accrued in- - [;., tereat thereon 86,537,77(1 Total., <2,665,924,084 Debt less amount in Treasury *,400,208,363 On th? Sth, Commodore Vanderbilt increased the tolls on Western cattle from one dollar to forty dollars per car from Buffalo to New York. Erie was still carrying for one dollar per oar. The Mississippi steamboat race between the Robert E. Lee and the Natchez, from New Orleans to St Louis, was won by the Lee. The time was three days, eighteen and a half hours, the quickest time on record between the two points. According to a Cheyenne despatch of the Cth the news from the Indian country was warlike. Further outrages were reported, and “all the Northern Cheyennes and the Arapahoes.who have hitherto been peaceable, announce their intention to go on the war path. Red Cloud and band are camped on the Tongue River, north of Fetterman. It is believed outside the Indian ring that he is collecting tribes for the purpose of waging war on the whites.” News received in St. Paul on the 7th from the Red River says there will probably be no opposition to the arrival of the British expedition in the Red River settlement. The Missouri Democrat of the 7th has a letter from Fort Sill, Indian Territory, stating that the Kiowas, Camanche, Arrapahoe, and part of the Cheyenne Indians, were on the war-path, and detail ing quite a number of depredations committed by them, in which several White men have been killed, and a large number of mules and cattle run off. The Quaker Agent was obliged to arm his employes, and call for troops to defend his agency. Additional cavalry has been stationed along the line of the Kansas Pacific railroad to protect settlements from Indians. Customs receipts for week ending July 2, 12,846.273.

PERSONAL. The White Stockings, of Chicago, defeated the Harvards, at Boston, on the 80th ult.—Bß to 7. The examination of William Oder, conductor of the freight train that caused the terrible collision at Eureka, Mo., May 12, terminated on the 30th ult.‘ The Court held the accused upon the charge of manslaughter in the fourth degree, and fixed his bail at SI,OOO. The President and family left Washington on the Ist for Woodstock, Conn., to spend the 4th. Among the nominations sent td the Senate on the Ist were the following: Thomas Murphy, Collector of Customs, New York; Thomas Hillhouse, Assistant Treasurer, New York; T. W. Oakley, United States Marshal, Western District of Wisconsin; James C. Hopkins, Judge of the,District Court, Wisconsin; Noah Davis, United States Attorney, Southern District cf New York. Postmasters—S. Frodahaw, Savannah, Mo.; Henry Bohn, Ripley, O. The President has nominated for Postmasters, James M. Dickenson, Boscobel, Wia; John A. Warren, Henry, Ill.; O. S. Woodcock, Elmwood, 11L The White Stockings, of Chicago, defeated the Yales at New Haven on the 2d, 35 to 8. At Cincinnati on the 2d, a game of baseball wm played between the Forest Oitys, of Rockford, and the Red Stockings, the score standing 14 for the latter, to 13 for the former. Alexander J. Craig, State Superintendent of Public Instruction of Wisconsin, died at Madison on the 3d, after some months* illness, of consumption. The Cincinnati Red Stockings defeated the Rockford Forest Citys, at Cincinnati on the 4th—24 to 7. In the game o base ball on the 4th between the Chicago Club—White Stockings—and the Atiantics, of Brooklyn, the latter won the game in a score of 30 to 20. The Iron Molders’ International Union, composed of delegates from various unions throughout the United States and Canada, commenced its session at Philadelphia, on the 6th. At Williamsburg, N. Y., on the 6th, the Mutuals, of New York, defeated the Chicago White Stockings—l 3 to 4. The name of James C. Hopkins, nominated for Judge of the new Judicial District in Wisconsin, has been withdrawn by the President .•< ' A Washington special to the New York 7M6WK! of the 6th states that it was rumored, and credited in official circles, that Hamilton Fish, had temlereil his icsUnfi-

Rey. Samuel Fallows, pastor of the Spring Street Methodist Church in-Mil-waukee, has been appointed by Gov. Fairchild as Superintendent of Public Instruction in Wisconsin, vice A. J. Cnig, deceased. A Washington dispatch of the 7th says: “ Rumors that Secretary Fish has tendered his resignation are Untrue. He would like to retire from the position, but will remain at the request of the President.* POLITICAL. Hon. William Smythe has been renominated 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. The San Domingo treaty was taken up by the Senate .in executive session, on the 30th ult., and some of the amendments proposed by the President were adopted, and a vote was then taken on the ratification of the treaty, and resulted 28 yeas against 28 nays. A two-third vote being required, the treaty was rejected. Daniel W. Voorhees was, nominated for Congress, without opposition, by the Sixth Indiana District Democratic Congressional Convention, at Terre Haute on the 30th ult At the election in Illinois on the 2d the new constitution was adopted by a large majority, and the articles submitted separately, including ' that for minority representation, wwrc also adopted. A judicial-decision was-rendered on. the sth (n the contested city election at Richmond, Va., that the matter of illegal and fraudulent ■/oteS cannot be gone into. Republicans claim that the decision in effect gives the city offices to their candidates. The Conservatives still contest the case ( on the ground of informality in the election. Hon. J. A. Garfield has been renominated by acclamation, at Garrettsville, Ohio, for re election to Congress, The Republicans of the First" District of Minnesota have nominated Hob. Mark H. Dunnell for Congress, to succeed Wilkinson. The President returned to Washington on the 7th. ,