Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1870 — Weekly News Summary. [ARTICLE]

Weekly News Summary.

CONGRESSIONAL. In the Senate, on the Bth, bills were psseed—relieving the political disabilities of somo seventy-five Kentuckians; House bill making fit. Joseph, Mo„ s port of delivery; relieving the political disabilities of shoot B,ooopersons....The Georgia bill was taken np, and a motion was adopted—B4 to 22-to concur in the Honso amendments to the Senate bill, and a Committee of Conference wiiß appointed, consisting of Messrs. Howard, Ilftmlln and A. G. Thurman.... The reports of the Conference Committees on the bill for the relief of certain officials of the army, and on tho Diplomatic Appropriation bill wore adopted .-...A resolution was adopted calling on the President for information in his possession relating to the abolition of slavery In Cuba, and for correspondence, not heretofore communicated, concerning questions between the United States and Great Britain.... The joint resolution making an appropriation for the payment to the British Government to settle claims of the Hudson Bay and Pnget Sonnd Agricultural Company was passed... .The bill to prohibit the enforcement of contracts for servile labor Importation was debated at length, a*d an amendment was offered extending naturalization to all foreigners alike, regardless of race or c010r.... Executive session and adjournments In the House, on the Bth, the contested election case of Cameron against Root was tabled ... .The reports of Conference Committees on the Post-Office Appropriation bill and on the bill for the relief of certain officers of the army were adopted.... Bills were paseed—Senate amendments to the River and Harbor Appropriation bill; In relation to enlistments in the marine corps, providing that after the Ist of July, 1870, enlistments be for five Instead of four years, and authorizing credit for enlistment pay; Senate bill to pay bounties to the First Alabama Cavalry, and First and Second Florida Cavalry; additional Deficiency bill, covering items amounting to $1,783,844, with amendments; to regulate the mode of determining the ratiflcallon of amendments to the Constitution of the United States ; providing that the act Qf March 8, 1869, making an appropri-. tlon for the completion of the court house and noMofflce building at Knoxville, Tern., be held to Include and revise all prior exnended appropriations for the same object Mr. Brooks, of New York, having declined to serve on the Conference Committee on the Funding bill, Mr. Marshall was appointed Bills were reported authorizing the acceptance of the resignation of a Judge who holds office during good behavior, and who has held his commission for not less than ten years, who may be permanently disabled from performing his duties efficiently, with a continnaUon of salary during his natural life; directing the Secretary of the Treasury to pay lawful owners the net proceeds of all cattle seized after the 30ih of June, 1865, such seizures having been made in violation of an injunction of the Treasury Department, and after tin proclamtt on of amnesty. Adj ourned. In the Senate, on the 9th, a petition was presented from Cyrus W. Field, and referred, asking authority to lay a cable from Florida to Cuba, and the repeal of the International Telegraph Company’s exclusive privilege to have a cable between those shores.. ..A report was made and adopted from the Conference Committee on, the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill . ...A resolution of inquiry into alleged Chinese importations In violation of law was adopted.... The bill for a pension to Mrs. Lincoln was taken up—Bj to SI- and a motion to lay on the table was lost—24 to 83—and the bill was laid over informally ... The Civil and Miscellaneous Appropriation kill was reported from the Committee on Appropriations.... The Army Appropriation bill was taken np, and amendments were adopted, among them one reducing the number of enlisted men In the armv to 80.060, and the hill was passed ... .Bills were also passed—granting to the Evansville SrSouthern Illinois Railroad Company the right to build a bridge across the Big Wabash Hlver; amendatory of the Bankrupt act, exending the operation of part of the laws to brokers, manufacturers, and miners. ...Adjourned. In the House, on the 9th, a report was made and agreed to from the Conference Committee on the Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bi 11.... A preamble and resolutions were offered and referred, relating to tho organized importation of Chinamen, declaring that it Is against tee genius of the age to bring immigrants to this country in bonds for terms of years, or even months, snd Instructing the Committee on Kducation and Labor to Investigate the subject, including the contract system practised In various pans of the country, and report a bill as soon as practicable prohibiting the introduction of bondmen from China or elsewhere, providing for the protection of those who voluntarily seek our shores in quest of free homes, and who will as speedily as possible adopt tho manners, habits and epstoms of the people, making It a criminal offense, punishable by fine and Imprisonment, to be a party, direct or Indirect, to a project tending to perpetuate the barbarism of slavery.. .The Senate amendments to the Tax bill were reported, and a motion to snspend the rnles and strike from the bill all relating to the Income tax was negatjved—67 to 116—and the Senate amendment reducing the tncomo tax to two and a half per cent, was concurred in—92 to 85; several others of the Senate amendments were concurred In, and those not concurred in were referred to a Committee of Conference... .The Senate blit extending the time for presenting claims for additional bounty for six months was passed ....A report was made and agreed to from the Conference Committee on the Legislative Appropriation hi 11.... A hill was Introduced and referred, to encourage the establishment of a line of eteamships as an auxiliary means of national defence, and for conveyance of United States malls to the different ports of Europe, India, and China, and for the promotion of Immigration.... Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 11th, the credentials ot Senator* Anthony and Cragtn, re-elected for six years from the 4th ot March next, were presented.... A hill was reported to establish the Eastern Judicial District of Kentucky.... Bills were passed—directing the Secretary of War to place at the disposal of the President certain ordnance to be need in the erection or an equestrian statue of General Rawlins; for the removal of certain cases from the State courts to the Unltod States courts; to confirm the title of purchasers of lands sold for taxes in the late insurrectionary States; Land Grant bills tn aid of a railroad from Sioux City, la., to Columbus, Dak.: amending the set declaring the bridges of tha New Orleans, Mobile & Chattanooga Railroad Company post roads.... The hill for a pension to Mrs. Lincoln was laid aside—yeas 82, nays 22 to take np the Sundry Civil Appropriation hill, to which several am-nd merits were adopted... .The Tax bill was received from the House, and a Committee of Conference appointed on the part or the Senate, consisting of Messrs. Sherman, Morrill STt). and Hamilton (Md.)... .Messrs. Morrill (Me.),rake, and Stockton were appointed a Committee of Conference on the Naval Appropriation bi 11.... Adjourned. In the House, on the 11th, bills were introduced and reforred—providing for a joint committee to Inquire into the danger threatening the country from Chinese immigration, and report the proper means for guarding against or averting it; to preserve the pnbHc faith and protect ail rights under laws and treaties of the’ United States: to Incorporate tho Loomis Aerial Telegraph Company; reorganising the Conrt of Claims; for the relief ol purchasers of land sold for taxes In the Insurrectionary State*; to refund the interest on money paid by Missouri for war purposes ; granting lands for a railroad from the Central Pacific Railroad, In Nevada, to Hamilton, Nev.; to enable soldiers and at here to perfect titles to land nnder the homestead act; also, various hills for the removal of political disabilities, and donating condemned cannon for soldiers’ monuments.... A resolution was adopted—lßß to 82— declaring that the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Articles of-Amendment to the Constitution, having been ratified by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several States, are valid to all Intents snd purposes as a part of the Constitn, tlon, and, as aaeh, are blading and obligatory on the Executive, Congress, the Judiciary or the several States and Territories, and all citizens of the United Btatea. A resolution was then offered and went over under the rule, declaring the resolution just adopted foreign to the duty«legislators, and mischievous la Its tendency and effect... .The Senate amendments to the Naturalization bill were concurred ta—l33 to 68.... A bill was reported and passed, providing that pork packers, lard Tenderers, and those smoking hams, curing meats, and others known as pro vision dealers, shall not be liable to the Internal tax levied on manufacturers, and remitting any auch tax assessed but not oollected.... In the Kentucky contested election case of Belgler against Rice, the resolution reported by the minority was adopted, and Rice retains the rest, and the Hones refused to give Belgler more than $2,01-0 for contesting.... The Speaker appointed Messrs. Schenck, Kelley and Brooro (N. Y.) a Conference Committee on the Tax and Tariff bi 11.... The Senate amendments to the Naval Appropriation bill were reported and some or them nonconcurrod tn, and a Committee of Conference was appointed, composed of Messrs. Washburns (Wit.), Scofield and Nlhjeek... The Benate Joint resolution appropri*ti*g!sso,oCo to pay the expenses of Indian delegations to Washington was passed... .In the election case of Joseph tiegar, claiming a sent as member at large from Virginia, the conclusion of the majority that Bcgar was nbi eiitlilod to a seal was agreed to.-*.. A resolution waa adopted providing for tho pristtog of 276,150 copies of the Agricultural /report foe 1869.... Adjourned,

In the Senate, on the 12tli, bills were passed—continuing the Bt. Paul JS Sioux City Railroad across Dakota to Yankton, and granting lauds in aid of the same; several private bills, Including one for an Increase of pension to S6O per month to the widow of General Hayes, killed at thebattleor the Wlldemees!nlß64....Theßundrj Civil Appropriation bill was proceeded with, several amendments were agreed to, and the bill, ae amended, was passed... .The Sonale Insisted upon Its amendments to the Army Appropriation Dill, and appointed a Committee of Conference consisting of Messrs. Wilson, Cameron and Warner ... .The report of the Conference Committee, on the hill for compensation of grand and petit jnrors In United States and District Coorts. and for other pnrposea, was adopted.... Adjourned. In the House, on the 12th, the Senate amendments to the Army Appropriation bill were reported, and the bill to reduce the number ol army officers, aa agreed to by the Conference Commltteo hut rejected by the Senate, was substituted for the prpvlslon of tha Senate on that sublect ...Thesixteenth and seventeenth rules, which prohibit bills being seat to either Honse or to the President on the last three days of the session, were suspended... .The Senate Joint resolution to relieve Insurance companies from liabilities to the Income tax for undlstrlbotable surplus, carrying It to their contingent rand, was passed, with an amendment applying tt also to sums held by mntnal life insurance companies to their policy-holders....A report was made and rejected—9o to 101—from the Conference Committee on the Judiciary bill, and another Conference Committee waa ordered, and the previous committee was reappointed, consisting ot Schenck, Hooper, and Marshall....A Conference Committee was ordered on the Georgia bill, and Messrs. Butler. Farnsworth, and Uoyne were appointed. ...The Senate Joint resolution extending the time to constrnct a railroad from the St. Croix River or Lake, to the west end of Lake Superior and to Bayfield, was reported back, wl'h a snbstltnte proposing to extend for seven years the privilege of the original grant of land to Wisconsin for the.nse and benefit of railroad companies designated by that State in 1869.... Adjourned In the Senate, on tke 18th, bills were Introduced—to settle and adjust all claims of the Choctaw nation against the United States; giving bounty to soldiers honorably discharged who entered the service between the 4th of May and *2d of July, 1861. and to the widow* and children, fathers and mothers of soldiers killed, or who died in the service, enlisted for wss than one yaar....A memorial waa presented from citizens of the western part of Kansas for a land grant In aid of a railroad through that section... .Bill* were passed— Annual Post-route bill: establishing a port of delivery st Kansas City, Mo.; In aid oi the New Orleans, Baton Rouge A Vicksburg Railroad; for the relief of the Kentucky University; making an appropriation to pay for the destruction pf buildings daring the war; Deficiency Appropriation hill, with amendments; exempting pork packers, lard Tenderers, and persona engaged In smoking hams, from tax aa manufacturers.... Reports of Conference Committee were adopted—on the Tax and Tariffbill; on the Fnnding bi 11... .A resolution waa adopted to print 90.000 additional copies of the bill to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment. ...The credentials of Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, re-elected Senator for the term commencing March 4th next, were presented... .The bill to grant a pension to Mrs. Lincoln was briefly considered, and an amendment to give her SIB,OOO In lieu of pension was rejected.... Executive session and adjournment. In the Honse, on the 13th, a resolution was adopted directing the House visitors to West Point—Messrs. Schenck, Logan and Slocum—to Investigate the complaint of the colored cadet at the Military Academy.... The Senate amendments to the Miscellaneous Appropriation bill were nonconcnrred in, and were referred to a Conference Committee, consisting of Messrs. Dawes, Beck and Sargent.... Messrs. Dickey, Logan and Archer were appointed a Conference Committee on the Army Appropriation bi11....A bill waa passed to create a port of delivery at Houston, Texas.... The report of the Conference Committee on the Tax and Tariff bill was made and agreed t 0.... Joint reaolutlona were passed—ordering SBO 000 of the amonnt appropriated in the River and Harbor bill for the Improvement of the Tennessee.Rlver to be expended for the repair and completion of the works between Knoxville and Chattanooga, and for the continuation of the works now in progress below Chattanooga, Including Muscle Shoals; authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to examine and adjust the accounts of the late Collectors of the Third and Bixth Collection Districts of Missouri; suspending the nse of whisky meters at distilleries until the fnrther action of Congress . ..Amotion toauspend the rales and pass a general amnesty blllwas rejected—7s t 0105... Majority and minority reports were made In the ease of the investigation of the charges against General Howard, the majority resolution declaring that the Honse acquits Major General O. O. Howard of the groundless and causeless charges lately preferred against him, and the minority resolutions directing that a copy of the testimony be referred to the Secretary of War, with directions to order a court-mar-tial for the trial of General Howard, etc. Both reports and evidence, covering nearly four thousand pages, were ordered printed.... The Conference report on the Funding bill waa agreed t 0.... Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 14th, hills were passed—granting a pension of $3,000 to Mrs. Lincoln—*B to 20; to constitute Houston, Texas, a port of dsltvery; dividing the State of Virginia Into two judicial districts; appropriating four condemned cannon to each of the following places, to aid tn the erection of soldiers' monuments: Bridgeport and East Ford, Conn.; Quincy and Peoria, Ill.; Morristown and Tronton, N. J.; Pittsburgh and Chambersbnrg, Penn., and the National Soldiers’ Cemetery in West Virginia; also to the Lincoln Monument Association as much bronze as may he necessary to cast the principal figures or said monument; appropriating $6,600,000 to maintain peace with the Indians and for the Indian service, with amendment substituting the Indian Appropriation bill, as passed by the Senate, tor the House bill; to construe the act of March 1, 1863, by allowing a drawback on cotton goods exported prior to May 1,1869, where Internal tax was paid on raw cotton; a large number of House bills, among others granting condemned ordnance to the Seventeenth Regiment Monument Association, of Ohio, and for Inventory of acconnt* of property of the United State* In public buildings and grounds.... The blUto encourage the building of American vessels, to engage in foreign trade, was taken up, debated and üblod—2l to 19.... The death of Senator Norton waa announced, and Messrs. Ram sey, Thurman and Stockton were appointed la committee to attend the remains to their place of Interment.... Conference Committees’ reports were submitted and adopted—on •■the Naval Appropriation hill; Bundry Civil Appropriation bill; Deficiency Appropriation bill; on the Georgia hill, In favor of the House bill, with an amendment declaring that nothing tn that or any other act of Congress sbull be constructed to effect the term to which any officer has been appointed, or any member of the General Assembly, elected as prescribed by the constitution of Georgia; Artsy Appropriation bi 11.... A message was received from the President and ordered printed, returning with htsobjections the bill providing for the payment of bounties to certain Alabama and Florida troop*... .Executive session. In the House, on the 14th, bills were passed—donating for school purposes * certain lot of land, with tho building* thereon, known as the Indian Dormitory In the village of Mackinaw,; to allow the steamboats of the Canadian Navigation Company, built tn the United State*, to carry passengers and baggage between American ports; granting an ordnance for a sckller*' monument at Cleveland. O.; ceding to the State of Ohio jurisdiction over the grounds of the National Asylum for disabled soldiers; authorizing the Commissioners of Indian affairs to appoint gaardlane or trustees of minor Indian chi Idren. entitled to pensions or bounties; placing $5,000,000 In the bands of the President for Indian purposes-, Senate bills, for the relief ol the Third Arkansas Cavalry; granting bronze ordinance Tor the erection of an equestrian statue of Genera) Rawlins; authorizing the continuance or tho patent of the Invention for postmarking mall package a; granting condemned ordnance for the soldiers’ moanmeut at Omaha; amending the Bankrupt law; exempting canned and preserved fish from internal tax. with amendment Including shell-fish, meat, fralt aud vegetables ; Senate amendment to the bill In reference to drawbahaclu on cotton good*... .Senate amendments to House bills were concurred tn—to discontinue the Clatklnvtlle, Ark., Land District; to require National Banks going Into liquidation to retire circulating notes; i o declare forfeited to tha United Btatea certain lanes granted to the State or Louts lacs lor railroad purposes; granting the Palnesvllle A Southern Illinois Railroad Company right OT way to bsiid a bridge across the Big Waba.fi river: to vacate the Fort Dakota Salutary rest rvatlor, Dakota Territory; extending the provision* of the Pre-emption laws to the Territory of Colorado .. .The Senate concurrent resolution on the death of Senator Norton was concurred tn, audMettra. Wilson (Minnesota), Wtlklnaon, Rldrldge, tTullom .and Archer Were appointed a committee to accompany the remains to their pi ex of interment . .Conference reports were mads aafeagreed to—on the bill to regulate the compensation of grand and petit jnrors; on the oIH - miking appropriation* for sundry c.vtl expense* of tho govern mo ft; on too additional Deficiency bill; oa the Georgia but ....Onmotto*,vh« vote agreeing v> the Utmfei-

once report oa the Miscellaneous Appropriation blllwas reconsidered, and hill recommitted.... The Senate amendment to the resolution for printing 278,600 coptes of the agricultural report For 1869, reducing the number to 225,000 copies, waa concurred 1n... .A resolution was adopted remitting all fines imposed on members lor absence ....Adjourned. FOREIGN. A telegram from St. Petersburg on tha Bth reports that the French Minister there had declared that the coronation of the Hohenzollern King of Spain would be regarded by France as a easue belli. The London Lancet of the Bth reports the mental and bodily vigor of Mr. Bright completely restored. Paris was considerably excited an the 9th. bjr rumors that Prussia was arming all the Baltic ports. A Berlin dispatch of the 9th says In official circles there the situation was thought free from danger. “ Bismark has neither assisted nor advised Spain in the Hohenzollern matter, and Napoleon’s attempt to hold him to any responsibility is therefore regarded as a mere pretext” European affairs were still complicated on the 11th. Prussia’s definite answer had not yet been received at Paris, but it was rumored that the King of Prussia had approved of the candidature of Prince Hohenzollern. A London special to the New York Herald on the 11th states that military preparations were going on at Paris, and that if the candidature of Prince Leopold was not withdrawn within twenty-four hours, tho French Ministers would be recalled from Berlin and and war would be declared. No confirmation of the reported massacre of Christians in China had been received by the French or English Government up to the 11th. The feeling in Paris on the 12th was quieter. It was reported that the questions at issue between France and Prussia bad been amicably settled. A London dispatch of the 12th says there was no doubt that the Prussian troops were concentrating near Baden and Mayence. A mmnr was current there that Prince Hohenzollern had withdrawn his acceptance of the nomination for the Spanish throne. The drought in France continued on the 12th. No rain had fallen for ten weeks prior to July 4, and since then there had been only a few slight showers, which were not sufficient to revive the drooping crops. According to appearances, half the grain crop would be lost. The British steamer Ecuador has been destroyed on the Pacific by the explosion of her boiler. Several lives were lost. Foreign advices on the 13th are to the effect that Leopold had withdrawn from the candidacy for the Spanish throne, but that France still maintained an alarming and provoking attitude toward Prussia, and warlike preparations continued in France, notwithstanding the withdrawal of Prince Leopold. In Constantinople, on the 11th, another disastrous fire occurred. The flames raged nine hours. Over 1,500 houses, mainly of the poorer classes, were burned. The Paris Journal Officiel of the 18th states that the no news of the reported massacre in China, and the news was generally considered false. The Paris evening journals of the 13th state that all the Ministers had resigned. The successful landing of another expedition in Cuba, in aid of the patriots, is announced. The expedition was not very large, but would be of essential service to the Cuban Army. It consisted of supplies of arms, munitions, clothing and medicine. A London dispatch of the 14th says the feeling throughout Europe was one of general uneasiness. A Brussels dispatch says the French Emperor was dissatisfied with the mere withdrawal of Hohenzollern, and persisted that Prussia formally disavow the candidature. The King of Prussia .firmly refused, alleging that to accede to this would only produce more extravagant demands from France. England, Russia and Austria were making energetic efforts to prevent a rupture, but so far had made no progress. A dispatch from Ems says: The French Ambassador had demanded an audience of the King of Prussia, to exact that Prince Hohenzollern’s renunciation be made perpetual, and that the royal veto be applied to any further approach to the Prince on the subject of the Spanish crown. The King declined to receive the Ambassador, and answered him through an aid-de-camp that he had no further communication to make. A Paris dispatch of the 14th says the preservation of peace was assured. The report of the resignation of the French Ministry was contradicted. In the (Ecumenical Council, on the 18th, the dogma of Infallibility was adopted by a vote of 450 affirmatives to 88 negatives, and 06 conditional DOMESTIC. Gold closed In New York on the 14th at 113.%. The Senate, in executive session, has ratified the protocol in relation to the African slave trade and naturalization treaty with Great Britain. Gov. Holden, of North Carolina, has issued a proclamation declaring Caswell county to be in a state of insurrection. No reason is assigned in the proclamation. Over 6,500 immigrants arrived at the port of New York daring the week ending July 9. There was a good deal of suppressed excitement on the 9th in New York financial and commercial oircles respecting the intelligence from France. The opinion was gaining ground that France is determined to find a pretext for hostilities with Prussia, and that active warlike operations cannot be long delayed.

A serious riot occurred in Louisa county, Va., on the 11th. Pistols and knives were freely used. Several men were more or less wounded. On the night of the 13th, a Sundayschool excursion train on the Richmond & Fredericksburg Railroad was thrown down an embankment, twelve miles from Richmond, Va., by a tree blown across the track. Four cars and the engine and tender were smashed. Douglass McClelland was instantly killed; John Clark had both his legs torn oil, and a number were slightly wounded. A telegram was received at the Indian Office in Washington on the 14th, from Whetstone Agency, Dakota, reporting that £lie Chiefs who lately visited Washington exercise a good influence, and are preventing war parties leaving that agency. Spotted Tail reports large numbers of northern Sioux crossing the Platte and going south. A Washington dispatch of the ISth says: "Notwithstanding the peaceful tone of dispatches from Europe, our government is in the receipt of intelligence that leads to the belief that a general war is inevitable. Accordingly it is deemed but a matter of prudence to place our navy on a war footing.” Receipts of customs for week ending July », $2,846,368. A terrible riot occurred at Elm Park, New York city, on the 12th, between a large number of Orangemen and Roman Catholic Irishmen. Pistols, clubs and stones were freely used, and several men were killed, and about fifty others wounded.

PERSONAL. The game of base-ball on the Bth, between the White Stockings, of Chicago, and the Onions, of Morrisania, resulted in a score of 28 for the former to 12 for the latter. The Harvard Base-Ball Club, of Boston, beat the Haymakers, of Troy, by a score of 25 to 13. Mr. Ackerman, the new Attorney General, took the oath of office on the Bth. The President has sent the following nominations to the Senate C. Bliss, Secretary of Legation, Mexico; Marsh Giddings, of Michigan, Consul General at Calcutta; Geo. W. Kingsbury, Assessor of Internal Revenue for Dakota Territory; Dexter C. Bloomer, Receiver of Public Moneys, at Council Bluffs; John M. Thatcher£Examiner-in-Cbief of the Patent Office; Samuel A. Duncan, Assistant Commissioner of Patents. Postmasters— David A. Cook, MendotS^lL; Hester A. Birdsong, Bellaire, Ohio; John Faget, Cadiz, Ohio; John W. Hays, Bamsville, Ohio; John Taylor, ItichrSond, Ky.; John H. Brlnkerhoff, Waukan, Wis. A Washington dispatch of the Oth says Secretary Fish had consented to remain in the Cabinet till the first of October, and contemplated taking a two months’ vacation after the adjournment of Congress. The President has nominated Charles W. Webb, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin; James C. Hopkins, Judge of the District Court of the Western District of Wisconsin. Postmasters—Cyrus M. Bayard, at Lincoln, Nev.; John Roberts, Hastings, Mich.; 8. B. Steer, Ronton, O.; Moses Messer, Hudson, O.; John Gibson, Carrolton, Mo.; Emma Sillman, Toledo, Iowa; Wm. S. Willey, Washington, Iowa; Fred. Renney, Nebraska City; John H. Kellom, Omaha; John Hopley, Bucyrus, 0.; E. H. Scott,McKeesport, Pa.; B. T. Wright, Charles City, Iowa; J. J. Abeygy,Brunswick, Mo.; O. B: Richardson, Hamilton, Missouri. The Chicago White Stockings defeated the Stars, of Brooklyn, on the 9th—9 to 6. On the 11th, at Philadelphia, the Athletics defeated the White Stockings—l 7 to 12. _ A game of base ball at Rockford, on Die 11th, between the Red Stockings, of Cincinnati, and the Forest City a, resulted in a tie—l 6to 16. Nearly 500 Chinese laborers have recently gone to the interior of Tennessee to work on plantations. The President has nominated Vernon H. Vaughn, of Alabama, as Seretary of Utah. The trial of the Fenian Gen. Starr, at Canandaigua, N. Y., commenced on the 12th. The Chicago White Stockings defeated the Keystones, at Philadelphia, on the 12th, in eight innings—23 to 18. Rear-Admiral John A. Dahlgren died suddenly, on tie. morning of the 12th, of heart disease, at the Washington NavyYard, of which he was commandant David Warner has been nominated as Surveyor of Customs of Galena, IK, and George B. Williams, of Indiana, has been appointed Second Deputy Commissioner ,of Internal Revenue, vice Parnell, resigned. The following nominations were made by the President on the 18th: Wm. C. Whitt on, Areodate Justice of the Baprerno Coart or Idaho; Wales llubbard, Keflater, at Lewiston, Idaho. . _ _ . , „ Surrevors of Customs—John K Woodward, Paducah, Kt.; Thomas Poster, Duluth, Minn. Also, Jas. M. Humphrey, Collector of Customs st Richmond, Va. Postmasters—B. Open*. Premoat, Heh.; P. R. Msrrlu, Duluth,Minn.; W. Pie roe, GsrrettfVllle, Ohio; W. B. Chapman. Ocnueaut, Ohio; C. M. Cromwell, MeConneltavllle. Pa; C. M. Wiseman, Lancaster, Ohio; J. H, Harmon, Obertln, Ohio; J. O. Orr. Lansing, Iowa; W. A. Burdick, Goeoo, !K BMk, BoMM. Mu i 8. J. BnraMt, Wimobaw, Mo.; W. Anderson, Marysville, Mo.; W. T. Snow, Brookrille, Mo.; J. A. Woodman, Pleasant HUI, Mo.: M. O. Brady. Mlnersdlle. Pa i David PbHllpa, Mahoning City. Pa.; Margarst Jeiwmso, Pittayllls. Pa.; Mtry Lawrenoe.Mlnsr.TtUvPS; 8. N. Vincent, Lapeer, Mich.; 8. VvlUe, Mo. A granite monument wus erected on the 13th to the memory of soldiers usd sailors of Cambridge, who died in the war. At Canandaigua, N. Y., on the I,3th, the juries in the cases of- General Starr and Colonel Thompson, tried for violation of the Neutrality laws, for beta* connected

with the Fenians, rendered verdicts Of guilty on two counts of the indictments, with a recommendation to mercy. Hon. Danisl S. Norton, Senator, of Minnesota, died at Washington, on the 14th, of consumption. The President on the 14th nominated: P. T. Prellnghnysen, Minister to England, atea Motley, recalled; CharlaeX. DeLoug, of Nevada, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleufpetsetlary to Japan; Peter Heftier, Assistant Treasurer of the Hulled States at Baltimore; James 0. lafferj, Receiver of Publio Moneys at Clarkavllle, Postmasters— Alexander M. Campbell, BaUna, Kansas; J. T. Miller, Orbana, Ills; Mrs. Bella B. Panthall, Lebanon, Ohio; Daniel P. Heaton, Oxford, Ohio. The Fenians Starr and Thompson, tried at Canandaigua, N. Y, have been sentenced to two years, and Mannlx, who pleaded guilty, to one year in State Prison. At. Baltimore, on the 14th, the White Stockings defeated the Marylands, in a game of eight innings—46 to 9. political: The Tennessee Legislature adjourned on the 11th to December. The National Democratic Central Committee has been folly organized, with Samuel Randall as President, Noah L. Jeffers, Secretary, and Hon. Thomas Swan, Treasurer. The Republican Congressional Committee has completed its organization by making an Executive Committee, consisting of Senators Wilson Rice, Cameron, Chandler, Sawyer, and Representatives Sargent, Logan and Ketchum. Senator Wilson is made Chairman, Congressman Platt, of Virginia, Secretary, and Colonel J. H. Glendenning, Treasurer. Justice James T. Walker, of EvansvlOe, Ind., has declared the State law puxdahing the intermarriage of negroes and whites to be contrary to the Civil Rights act of Congress. The Legislature of Virginia has adr Journed to the first of October. The Democratic Congressional Convent tion at Lafoyette, Ind., on the 12th, nominated General M. D. Man son for Congress. The Illinois Republican State Central Committee have called a State Convention, to be held at Springfield on the list of September. The Democratic State Convention of Nebraska has been called to meet at Plattsmoutn on the 7th of September. The recent Democratic Convention of the Fifth Indiana Congressional district nominated Thomas Cottrell, of Indianapolis, for Congress, A recent swindle is thus, described bv a European paper: "A gentleman stepped into the store of a merchant, followed by a servant The gentleman, who wore his right arm in a sling, was taken for a military pensioner, and the merchant gladly placed before him such articles as he asked for. When be came to settle the account, however, he found that he had not sufficient money, so he asked the merchant to write a note from his dictation to his wife, which he would send to his hotel by his servant The merchant unsuspiciously wrote as he desired, and on a sheet bearing the name of the firm, these words: ‘ Send me immediately, by the bearer, 200 thalers. Yours, Robert’ He smilingly closed up the note with the expression, ‘Ah, then, we are namesakes.’ The servant took the note and soon, returned with the required sum. The gentleman paid for his wares, gave them to his servant to carry and went away. Some hoars after, the wife of the merchant visited him, after talking of sundry things, suddenly asked him why he had sent for the 200 thalers. The man was rendered speechless with astonishment when he saw what a cheat had been played upon him. The search after the sharper has not yet proved successful.” A farmer living neai(Elkbart, Ind.,has refused for seven years to sell his wool, because he could not get the price be demanded. His stock has, therefore, increased, until the other day he concluded to come down, and took to town over 5,000 pounds of wool, contracting it,at from thirty-five to thirty-eight cents per pound. For a large proportion or this wool he was long ago offered $1 pqr pound, and refused it . r f - „ ,