Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1871 — Weekly News Summary. [ARTICLE]

Weekly News Summary.

CONGRESSIONAL. In the Senate, on the 24th, the credentials or william Windom, as Senator elect from Minnesota, were presented and reaa.... Bills were reported—lavorably, repealing the test oath; to provide for Assistant United States Treasurers at Cincinnati and Chicago.... Tho bill relating to bridges across tho Mississippi River was considered and passed.... Mr. Miller, qf Georgia, was sworn 1n... .The House Enforcement bill, entitled an act to amend the act approved May 31, 1870, to enforce tho right of citizens of the United Slates to vole In tho several States of the Union, and for other purposes, was taken up, and a lengthy debate ensued, when the hill was passed by a party vote of 811 to 10....Adjonrnqd. In the House, on the 24th, the bill making appropriations lor the sundry civil expenses of the government, known as the Omnibus bill, appropriating $38,583,992, was taken up, and Us consideration occupied the greater portion of the day’s session, twenty pages out of fifty-five of the hill being disposed of .. Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 25th, bills were passed—to revise, consolidate and amend the statutes relating to patents and copyrights; nonce bill providing for celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of American Independence at Philadelphia. .. 'The House amendment to the Southern 'Pacific Railroad bill was non-concurred in, and a conference was ordered, and Messrs. Howard, Kel logg and Flanagan were appointed as the committee.. .The Post Office Appropriation bill was taken up and various amendments were considered. ....Adjourned. In the House, on the 25th, a resolution was adopted to pay Mrs. Leftwich, widow of the contestant for a seat, #2,500 for expenses of the contest... .The Senate bill to amend the act to establish the railroad and bridges of the New Orleans, Mobile & Chattanooga Railroad Company ns aqwsVTOld was passed... .The Onudbus Appropriation bill was furl her considered and several Itepis disposed 0f.... Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 27th, the credentials of Senator-elect Caldwell were presented and filed....A resolution was passed providing for the compensation of tho Georgia Senators, Hill and Miller, from the date of their election, July 29,1568. and thelrcoiiteHtants, Farrow and Whitely, from their alleged election to tho date at which they were declared not elected to seats.... The bill to authorize the construction of the Cincinnati A Southern Railroad was reported favorably from the Consmittee on Commerce... A report was I made and adopted from the Committee of Conference on the bill for the construction of a bridge nt Booneville, M0....A report was made from the Committee of Cuufereuce on the hill, to abolish the grades of Admiral and Vice-Admiral of th# Navy, that the committees of the two Houses failed to at'ree, and on motion the committee was discharged from further consideration of the subject.. .The Post Office Appropriation bill was proceeded with, and an amendment to Increase the annual subsidy to the pacific Mail i Steamship Company to $1,000,G00 was laid on the table and the bill was passed... .Adjourned. In rite House, on the 27th, a petition was presented from South Carolina recounting outrages upon whites and consequent retaliation upon the blacks, and urging a better government or the separation of the races in South Carolina. .. .The Omnibus Appropriation .bill was further considered and nearly all the items were disposed of. when the bill was laid on tho table—4ls to 71. ... .The Conference Committee on the question between tho House and the Senate in reference to the right of the Senate to originate the bill to repeal the income tax, made a report in behalf of the House managers, recommending the adoption of a resolution maintaining that it is the sole and exclusive privilege of the House to originate bills directly Affecting me revenue, whether such bills be for the imposition, reduction or repeal of taxes, etc.... A report was submitted from the Judiciary Committee in favor of the claims of the States of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio for two per cent, of the proceeds of public lands and Indian reservations within those States since their admission into the Union, estimating all such lands at $1.25 per acre; also in favor of paying to the Choctaw nation of Indians $250,000 tolls in United States bonds under the treaty of April 18, 1800.... Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 28th, the credentials of John A. Logan, as Senator from the State of Illinois for six years from March 4, and of Phineas W.Hitchcockns SenatorfromNebraska for the ensuing term, were presented, rend and ordered tiled.... Bills were parsed—House bill to authorize the duplication of registered bonds in certain cases; to enable the Jackson, Lansing A Saginaw Railroad Company to change the uorthern terminus of its road from Traverse Bay to the Straits of Mackinac; a large number of pension bills... .The River and Harbor Appropriation bill was reported, with amendments.... Conference Committees were announced—oh the Indian Appropriation bill, Messrs. Cole, Harlin and Stockton; on the Legislative Appropriation bill, Messrs. Sawyer, Trumbull and Bayard... .The Army Appropriation bill was proceeded, with, and amendments were disposed of ...Adjourned. lii the House, on the 28th, bills were passed—to amend section 4of the act of July 20, 1838, in relation to fermented liquors, so as to apply to making fermented liquids used for the manufacture of vinegar exclusively, but not to be construed to authorize tho distillation of fermented liquors anywhere except In authorized distilleries: to promote the construction of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad; repealing all laws aud parts of laws imposing duty on foreign coul—l4l to 48— to take effect immediately; Senate bill passed in April, 1870, for giving effect to various grants of public lands to the State of Nevada, and allowing the selection Of school lands in California... .The Senate amendment to the House bill for an Internationa! Exposition at Philadelphia, In 1876, was con- < urred in. and the bill was passed; also, the Senate amendment to the House bill allowing the issue of duplicate registered bonds, in cases where the originals wire believed to be lost or destroyed, was concurred In, and the bill was passed.... Conference committees were announced—Messrs, Sargent, Beck, ami Clarke (Kansas) on the Indian Appropriation bill; Messrs. Dawes, Washbnm (Wisconsin) aud Nlhlack outlie Legislative Appropriation billV bill was reported from the Reconstruction Committee to protect the loyal and peaceable citizens of the United States In the full enjoyment of their rights of personal liberty and property, uud to enable such citizens to preserve and perpetuate evidences of losses claimed to have been sustained by them In the-war tn tho States lately in rebellion.. . A motion to reconsider the vote' whereby the'Omnibus hill was tabled prevailed, aud a substitute was agreed to—1(8 to 98— omitting several Items contained In the original bill, and containing tho following amendments adopted by the House Appropriation-Committee: Sixty thousand dollars for the Little Falls Bridge; increasing Hie compensation of Viunio Ream from ja.utw to $10,0110; increasing the appropriation for . tho survey of the Western coast from $200,000 to s2lo,thO; appropriating $75,000 for continuing the survey of the Northern and Northwestern lakes; the- toil was then passed—ll 2to 78A'Conference Committee was ordered on the Southern Pacific Railroad.... Adjourned. In the Senate, on the Ist, the credentials of Senator-elect Ffellnghuysen, of New Jersey, laclly, of Oregon; aud Wright, of lowa, were presented, read, und ordered filed... .A resolution was adopted to continue the investigation, by special committee, of the alleged Ku Klux outrages in the South, during the first session of the Fortysecond Congress.... Messrs. Cole, Ramsey and Sherman were appointed a Conference Committee on the Fost-OtUce Appropriation bill. ...A report was made and concurred in, from the Conference Committee on tho Indian Appropriation bi 11.... The bill repealiugAho dntyon coal was received from the House, and read for the first time, itseecoud reading being objected t0....Th0 Army Appropriation bill was further amended and passed I'ho Navy Appropriation bill was considered in Committee of the Wh01e.... Adjourned. In the House, on the Ist, bills were passed—Senate bill providing that no tax shall be Imposed upon any sums added to the contingent funds of Insurance companies, or on unearned premiums; Senate bill to amend the act of March 2, IHi.B, to establish and declare the railroad and bridges of the New Orleans, Mobile & Chattanooga Railroad Company a post road; relating to the records of the Courts of the United States; Senate bills granting lands for the construction of a railroad from the western boundary of Minnesota to tuo Winnipeg district in British'America, and to provide for the erection ol a government building I at Trenton, N. J. ..Resolutions were adopted to pay Messrs. Rogers, of Tennessee, and Eggleston, I ul Otdo, contestants tor seats, $2,500 and $3,000 re--1 sportively... .The Senate amendment to the House I bill creating tlddlllonal judicial districts In Arkansas was amended by providing that the present 1 District Judge of Arkansas shall remain Judge of the Eastern District... The report of the Conference Committee on the Indian Appropriation bill agreed to ..Adjourned. ’ In the Senate, on the 21, the predenHlals of Senators cleet Henry Cooper, of Tenues- [ tc-e, aud J. R. West, of biulslana,were presented. ■Bill., were piiss.d-House bill for collecting drn-s to the government from Southern railroads; l the llmlcieimv bill, with amendments; the Fort tt- , aihm. and River and Harbor Appropriation bills; 1 w authorize tae promulgation of regulations for

tke government of the army; for the recovery of damages for the loss of the sloop-of-wnr Oneida; to create ports of delivery at Eureka and Wilmlng ton, California; appropriating 51H,5'41 for damages to tho building and grounds of the East Tennessee University, caused by Federal troops during the war.... A communication was presented, und ordered filed, from present and former members of the Legislature of Georgia, remonstrating against the character of the election of Foster Blodgett as United States Senator from that Slate. .. A report wns made and ordered printed, from the Committee of Conference to which was referred the quo.: ion at issue between the two houscaas to the right of the Senate to originate the mehsure repealing the income tux, stating that tho committee had failed to agree, advising the Senate to adhere to its position, and stating that no further conference was necessary. .. .A report was made from the Committee of Conference on the Legislative, Executive aud Judicial Appropriation bill, Hint the committees of the two houses were unable to agree, and asking to be discharged, and, on motion, Hie Senate iusi-ted on its amendment to Hie bill, and asked for the apointment of a new committee on the part of the louse, Messrs. Sawyer, Morrill, of Vermont, and Thurman being appointed as new committee of the Senate... .The Semite insisted on its amendments to tlie Army and Navy Appropriation bills, imdappointed the. sollowlng Committees of Conference: On the Army bill—Messrs, Cole, Thayer and Blair. On the Navy bill Messrs. Sprague, Crugan and Stockton... The House joint resolution repealing the duty on coal was referred to the Committee on Finance... .Adjourned. In the House, on the 2d, bills were passed—to provide for a board of three commissioners for the examination of the claims of loyal citizens in the late rebel States for stores or supplies taken or furnished during the rebellion for the use of the army, including the nse and loss of vessels or boats while employed in tlo military service of the United States, said commission to exist for two years; to divide the State of Illinois into three judicial districts; to remove political disabilities from several citizens of Kentucky and Tennessee.... The Senate amendments to the Army and Navy Appropriation lolls wgre non concurred in, and a committee of conference ordered....A resolution was adopted acquitting General O. O. Howard of the charge against him as to his administration In the Freedman's Bureau. ... Adjourned.

FOREIGN. A Florence telegram of the 25th says that the new Queen of Spain was rapidly recovering from her recent illness, and would soon be able to resume her jouriiey. to Madrid. By an imperial decree the opening of the German Parliament has been postponed until the IGth. of March. A terrible colliery explosion occurred in South Wales on the 25th. Fifty dead bodies were taken from the mines on the day of the accident. London papers of the 25th announce exQueen Isabella, of Spain, who was at Geneva, as being ill bpyond recovery, all hope having been abondoned by her physi ; cians. A Paris telegram of the 27th says: “■The preliminaries of peace were signed yesterday, at 5:30 p.m. France cedes Alsace and Metz. Belfort is retained. The war indemnity is fixed at five milliards francs. For payment three years’ time is granted. The Germans are to hold the fortress till paid. The armistice is prolonged a week. The Germans enter Paris immediately.” A Loudon dispatch of the 27th says the triumphal entry of the Germans into Berlin has been delayed two mouths, as tire whole of Germany will observe six weeks of mourning for the victims of the war. The London Tima special from Versailles, on the 28th ult., gives additional particulars of the treaty : “ The fortified cities of Lunnevtlle, Nancy, and Belfort are left to France: Longwy, Thionville, Metz, Saarbruck and the iron district will go to Germany. Rothschild promises to pay the entire indemnity to Germany within a year, by which the army of occupation will be got rid of; at the end of that time Prince Frederick Charles is to be Governor of Champagne, witli headquarters at Rheims. The Emperor William will merely pass through Paris and his new possessions -en route to Beilin. Dispatches from various parts of Ireland received in London on the 28th, report that several acts of agrarianism had occurred, in which several persons were killed. s. The French Assembly oil the Ist ratified the preliminary conditions of peace by a vote of 546 ayes to 107 noes. The Assembly enthusiastically and unanimously voted by acclamation, a resolution decree, ing the fall of the empire, and stigmatizing Nepoleon as the author of all the misfortunes cf France. The grand entry into Paris of a portion of the German army occurred on the Ist. The streets are reported to have been almost entirely deserted by the inhabitants, and no disturbances occurred. The shops and windows of the chief thoroughfares were all closed, and the aspect of the city was desolate. Only a few Italian, Amcricau, and English flags were flying, and one single French flag hung over the Palace of the Corps Legislatifl. The widow of Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author, died in Kensington on the 26th. ‘V. ’ DOMESTIC. Gold closed in New York oji the 2d at 111. 4 A good deal of excitement' has been created in New York city by a recent heavy advance in the price of ci>al, the result of a scarcity caused by the suspension of work in tho mining regions. It is alleged that “ there is a determination on the part of the monopolists to destroy the Miners’ Union in the coal regions. The mining of coal has been actually prevented by the enormous freights charged by the railroad companies, and these rates will continue until the miners come to terms.” The Secretary of the Treasury has directed the Assistant Treasurer at New York to purchase $2,000,000 of bonds each Wednesday during the month of March, being $10,000,000 in all, and to sell sl,000,000 of gold omjhe first, third and fifth Thursdays, and $2,000,000 on -the second and fourth Thursdays of March—s7,ooo,ooo in qdl. „ A libel suit agaiust the Baltimore American, which had been on trial for two Weeks in the Court of Common Pleas in that city, for the publication in the proceedings of the Police Court of the ease of a party arrested for selling diseased meat, was decided on the 271 h in favor of the defendant. In New York city, on tbo evening of

the 28th, Pauline Delareux, thirty-two years of age, was poisoned by taking oxalic acid, which had been dispensed to her servant in midtake for seldlitz powder mixture, by a drug clerk in Henry Hunter's store, Amity street. The druggist and clerk wefe arrested. The Wheeling, W. Va., Savings Institu tion went into liquidation on the 27th ult. The bank was closed. 'lts liabilities are stated nt $150,000. There were between $50,000 and $55,009 belonging to the city sinking fund on deposit, and many private individuals and working men have all their savings there. The capital stock of the institution was only $50,000. A Pottsville, Pa., dispatch of the Ist says it was then believed there would be no general resumption of coal mining in •Pennsylvania until April. The following is a recapitulation of the official monthly debt statement, March 1: Debt bearing coin intere5t51,922,848,700 Accrued interest 86,689,618 Debt bearing currency interest 55,238,000 Accrued Interest 318,205 Matured debt 8,261,112 Interest on do 541.000 Debt bearing no Interest 426,331,434 Unclaimed Pacific Railroad interest— 13,695 Total principal and interest $2,444,737,Ml Coin In Treasury $103,174,208 Currency In Treasury... 20,854,605 Total cash in Treasury 124,028,814 Debt less cash in Trea5ury....,52,320,708,846 Decrease during February $7,817,060 Decrease since March 1,1870 $117,619,630 Decrease since March 1, 1869 $204,754,413 The statement of bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad companies, interest payable in lawful money, shows the total as follows: Amount outstanding 64,618,882 00 Interest accrued and not yet paid. 646,188 00 luterest paid by the United Stales 10,758,910 00 Dit'-reet repaid by transportation of mails . 2,460,818 00 Balance of Interest paid by the United States 8,293,091 00 The northward bound express train, on the Mississippi Central Railroad, broke through a culvert near Holly Springs, on the 26th ult., precipitating the engine, tender and baggage car to the bottom of a gully fifteen feet below, instantly killing the fireman and severely wounding the engineer, and slightly bruising a number of passengers.

PERSONAL. The nominations sent to the Senate on the 24th were: John C. Witcher, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Third District of West Virginia; Cornelius Hedges, United States Attorney for Montana. The Ohio Editorial Convention at Akron on the 24th elected the following officera_forthe ensuing year: President, W. T. Bascom, Mt. Vernon; Vice-Presi-dents, Joshua Sexton, Urbana; 8. D. Harris, Ravena; Treasurer, P. Cunio, Sandusky; Secretary, S. L. Everett, Akron. J. Frost, of Massillon, was selected to collect the early history of the Ohio press for the next meeting; which will take place at Cleveland. . The English members of the Joint High Commission; with their Secretaries, accompanied by Mr. Fish and Mr. Thornton, called at the Executive Mansion in Washington on the 25th, and were formally presented to President Grant, who was as sisted in receiving the distinguished visitors by the Secretary of State, AttorneyGeneral, Secretary of the Treasury, and Generals Porter, Babcock and Dent. The interview was entirely unofficial, and had no reference whatever to questions to be considered by the High Commission. Thomas 11. Burrows, President of the Pennsylvania State Agricultural College, died on the 25th, aged 67. Henry D. Cooke, Georgetown, D. C., member of the banking firm of Jay Cooke & Co., has been nominated by the President to be Governor of the District of Columbia. The following nominations were sent to the Senate on the 28th: John R. Miller, Collector of Internal Revenue in the First District of Tennessee; James B. Rothschild, Collector of Internal Revenue in the Fifth District of Ohio; James E. Marsh, Surveyor of Customs at Kansas City, Mo. Postmasters—M. L. Havrestick, Rock Island, Ill; Mrs. M. F. Lowe, Xenia, Ohio; Oliver C. Easton, Havana, Illinois. o The nominattions sent to the Senate on the Ist were: Wm. H Lessig, SurveyorGeneral, Colorado; Jas. Henry, Marshal of the Western District of Michigan. Postmasters —John W. Aike, Clinton, Mo.; F. E. Lathrop, Columbia, Mo.; J. C. Parrott. Keokuk, Iowa; Harriet E. Drury, Troy, Ohio; Chas. H. Spofford, Rockford, Illinois.

POLITICAL. A Washington telegram of the 27th says: “Mr. McPherson, Clerk of the House of Representatives, has just completed a list, of members of the House, having for this purpose taken the certificates of the Governors of the several States. The certificate of the member from the Third flistrict of Arkansas is not yet received. The following is the classification in politics of the two parties; Republican, 130; Democratic, including the Third District of Arkansas, 06: Independ ent, viz.- Jas. G. Blair, of Missouri, 1; total, 227; vacancy in Illinois caused by the election of Logan to the Senate; vacancy in Michigan, Caused by the election of Ferry to the Senate; making a total of 229 Not- elected: New Hampshire, .8; Connecticut, 4; Texas, 4; California, 3. Total number of members, 243. There are from twelve to fifteen contested seats of the ninety-six Democrats above mentioned. Two—Dubftis, of Georgia, and Rogers, of North Carolina, and probably Waddell, of North Carolina, are barred by the Fourt.ejith Amendment. They will not be able t> qualify until their disabilities are removed by act of Congress. The Indiana Senate adjourned sine die oh tlit? STUi, the vote being 27 to The - i

House met and the roll call showed 21 members present. Adjourned to the 28th. A Little Rock, Ark., special of the 27th says there was nothing of particular interest that was new in the impeachment muddle. The session of the House on the 27th was almost entirely devoted to a discussion of the question as to whether the announcement of impeachment made in the Senate was legal or not. . The Speaker of the Indiana House, on the 28th, declared the House adjourned tine die. The city election at Cairo, 111., on the 28th ult., resulted in the election of Jobn M. Lumsden for Mayor; Joseph B. Taylor, Treasurer; M. J. Hawley, Clerk. There were no party nominations, the above gentlemen being on the citizen's ticket, made up from both Republicans and Democrats. Governor Clayton, of Arkansas, telegraphed to Washington on the 27th that he had decided to resign his position as United States Senator-elect. The resolutions impeaching David Butler, Governor, passed the Nebraska House of Representatives on the Ist, by a vote of 31 to 6. A committee of five was appointed to prefer the charges.