Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1871 — Weekly News Summary. [ARTICLE]

Weekly News Summary.

CONGRESSIONAL. In the Senate, on the Bd, the credentials of H. G. Davis ee Senator bom West Virginia for ■lx jean from March 4, were prerented and placed on die.... Bill, were paeeed—Hbuae bills to provide for a reieeue of National Bank notes ana for other parpoM., providing for the reception by the Treasury of mutilated note* of National Bank*, and the reissue In their place of new note*; relating to telegraphic communication Between tho United States and foreign countries, providing a code for a telegraph cable company; to amend section 4 of the act of July 40, 18*18, »q as not to apply to fermented liquors need for the manufacture of vinegar exclusively; to divide the State of Ohio luto three Judicial districts; a number of pension hill*.;..A motion was agreed to that the Senate lneiet on lte amendment* and appoint a new Committee of Conference, as asked for by the House, on the Mu to ahollah the grade* of Admiral and- Vice-Admiral, and Mess re. Nye, Anthony, aud Caseerly were appointed as the new committee....Meaars. Cole, Anthony and Vlckcra were announced a* a Conference Committee on the Deficiency Appropriation bill to confer with a similar committee or the House... .The report of the Conference Committee on the Army Appropriation MU was concurred In the House, on the 3d, bills were passed—Senate bill to amend the patent laws; to create a Northern Judiciary District In the State of New York; to provide for the redemption of copper and other token coins; Senate bill In relation tb the Selma, Rome Ss Dalton Railroad Company, of Alabama, for a certificate of land which should have been Issued before tbS war;. Senate bill renewing the land grant to tho South A North Alabama Railroad Company; Senate amendments to the HOnee hill relating to telegraphic communications between tho United State* and foreign countries. ...Conference reports were made and agreed to —on the Fortification hill; Poet-office, Army, Legislative, River aud Harbor, Deficiency and Naval Appropriation hi11*....A resolution was passed to pay Thos. Baird, of Georgia, $4,800 for contesting the seat to which he was not entitled A resolution was passed teuderlng the thanks of the members to Speaker Blaine for hi* able, courteous, dignified and Impartial discharge of the duties of hie position.

In the Senate, on the morning of the 4th, a motion was agreed to to postpone the hill to repeal the duty on coal.. -A report waa made that the President had been waited upon, and had no further communication to make to the Senate, when a resolution was offered and adopted without objection, tendering “ the thanks of the Senate to the Hon.Schnyler Colfax, Vice President of the United States, for the eminent ability, courtesy, and Impartiality with which he has presided over the deliberations or this body. The hour of twelve o'clock, the time fixed by law for the expiration of the session, having arrived, the Vice-President returned thanks to the Senators for their approval of hfe official course, aud then declared the last session of the Senate of the For-ty-first Congress adjourned without day. The time fixed for the assembling of the first session, according to law, of the Forty-second Congress having arrived, the Secretary proceeded to call the roll of the Senatore-elect, ana the following new Senators came forward and took the oath of office: Messrs. Anthony (R. I.), Caldwell (Kan.), Cragin (N. H.), Frellnghuysen (N. JA Ferry (Mich!), Hitchcock (Neb.VKelly, (Oregon), Logan (Ul.)v Morrill (Maine), Robertson (S. C.), Stevenson (Ky.). Saulsbnry, Ell (Del.), Cooper (Tenn,).Wilton, (Mass ). Wright (Iowa). Whidom (Minn.), West (La.) The names of Senatorselect Alcorn (Mississippi) and Clayton (Arn.) were not called.... The Vice-Presi-dent stated that the name of Mr. Vance. Senator from North Carolina, would not be called, as the legal and political disabilities of that gentleman had not been removed ... The credentials of Mr. Goldthwaite, of Alabama, were temporarily laid on the table, as also were the credentials of Foster Blodgett, of Georgia, and the two sets of credentials “from Texas, one representing that the iate Senator Hamilton had been elected for the next term, and the other certifying to the election of Reynolds.... The committee of notification to the President and House, of the organization of the Senate, were then appointed... .Adjourned to the 7th. In the House, on the morning of the 4th, the Omnibns hill was received from the Senate with a number of amendments attached to it, all of which were finally concurred 1n.... Several Executive communications were received.... Announcement waa made that the committeeappointed for that pnrpoeohad waited on the President and were authorized to inform Congress that He had no further communication to make, when the hour of twelve having arrived, the Speaker returned his thanks to the members for the commendation they had been pleased to bestow upon his official conduct, and declared the last session of the House of the Forty-first Congress adjourned tine die. Boon after the adjournment of the Forty-first Congress, the new House was summoned to order and the names of the members by State* waa called, and 424 response* were made, the full representation being44B. . .Ja*. G. Blaine (Rep.) of Maine, was re-elected Speaker over Gen. Morgan (Dem ) of Ohio, by a vote of 126 to 93.... Mr. Dawes. the senior member of the House, administered the oath of office to the Speaker, and the Speaker proceeded to administer the oath to the member*.... A resolution was adopted declaring the following persons officer* of the House for the Forty-second Congress; Edward McPherson, Clerk; N. G. Ordway, Sergeant-at-Arms; O. 8. Buxton, Doorkeeper; A. S. King, Postmaster, and j. G. Butler, Chaplain, being the officers of the last House... Messrs. Hooper, Nibiack.and Schofield were appointed as a committee to join a like committee on the part of the Senate to wait upon the President and inform him that Congress was ready to proceed to bueines*.... A concurrent resolution was adopted—l 47 to 17—for an adjournment die on the Bth. ...After the drawing for teats the House adjourned to the 7th, In the Senate, on the 7th, the committee appointed to wait on the President reported that they had performed the duty, and the President Informed them that he bad no communications for Congress at present, but should make one in the course of a week, and expressed the wish that Congress should not thl* week fix a day of adjournment.... Bills were Introduced—to abolish the tax on income*; to provide additional commercial facilities for New York—the Submarine Tunnel bill; to remove the legal and political disabilities from all persons on whom such are imposed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution; to enable honorably discharged soldiers and sailors, andjthelr widows and orphans, to ■ acquire homesteads on public lands of the United States—the same bill which passed the House last session and failed In the Senate ... A memorial was presented from J**- C. Abbott, of North Carolina, In whloh he claims to have received a clear majority of alt the legal votes cast by the Legislature of that State In the recent election for United States Senator, on the ground that Z. B. Vance, being Ineligible under the constitution, wa* not entitled to he voted for, and ha* not, therefore,been Sleeted. ...A joint resolution wae adopted authorising the President to appoint a Commissioner to the Internalional Congress on Penitentiary Discipline, etc.. In Europe. The House concurrent resolution to adjourn on Wednesday, March 8, was laid on the table... Adjourted to the 9th. In the House, on the 7th, the claim of llr. Boles to a seat from the Third District of Ar kansaa, instead of Mr. Edwards, was presented, and referred to the Committee on Elections.... The Speaker stated that with the exception of those on elections, mileage, accounts and public buildings. It was not hi* Intention to appoint the standing committee* until the December session, to which most of the member* were favorable... The Senate Joint resolution wa* passed for the appointment of a Commlaaloner to tho International Congress on Penitentiary and Reformatory Discipline. .. .Adjourned to the 9th. Ip the Senate, on the 9th, a memorial Nfte prerented for a general disarmament through oat the world, and a repeal of the war clauses of the Constitution of U» United States... .Bills were introduced—supplementary to the dvll rights let. Intended to secure eqnal rights to colored people Jn all public conveyance*, place* of amusement, churches, benevolent and other institutions, etc. fto Incorporate dm Japan Steam Navigation Company, confined to the navigable water* of Japan; {• facilitate commerce between the United State* and China, and other Asiatic conn trie*; to ratify and carry Into effect the constitution, and form a government for the Indian Territory; to provide for ‘ the erection of a government building at Grand Rapid*, Mich.; granting right of way to certain railroads in Colorado; to provide for tne transportation of matl* between tne United State* and Europe, end other purposes; declaring the true construction oi the teooad section of the act of March 8, 1847, to settle certain account* between the United State* and Mississippi; to aid In the con* ■traction of a railroad from Lincoln, Nebraska, to Denver, Colorado; to Incorporate branches of the Tfexa* Pacific Railway Company; under the name of die North Carolina Extension Railway Company—the companies to be ihe Eastern and Western Divisions, Western North Carolina Railroad, Wilmington, Charlotte Jb Rutherford Railroad, and the Spartanburg A Union Railroad, of booth Carolina; reviving a grant of land to th* North Dralslana A Text* Railroad, to connect \ lck*husg with the Tesae Pacific Railroad; incorporating the Shreveport A Red River 'lramovement Company; creating Bhreveap a port

of delivery; to provide for fee segregation and survey of swamp land* In Oregon.... adjourned. In the House, on the 9th, hills were introduced—to repeal the duty on salt; for tha repeal of the duty on coal; providing that In all cases of Insurrection or obstruction to the lew, either of the United States or of any State or Territory, by a combination too powerful to b* suppressed by the ordinary Judiciary proceedings, sud In all caaee where tho constitutional authorities of any State or Jfarrltoiw shall fall or refuse to execute the laws. It shall be fawrul forthe President to employ the lend or naval forces of th* United States to suppress such combinations and to execute the laws even though the Legislature er Executive of such State may not call for such forces; for the apportionment of Representatives to Congress among the several Btatea according to the ninth census. ....The Committee on Election* wa*announced, as follows; Messrs. W. W. McCreary, Stevensen, Hale, Polland, Flnkelubnrg, Thomas, Kerr, Potter and Arthur ...A resolution was offered and referred against paying compensation to contestants for teats, who may be declared by the House not entitled to them, bnt that the llonse may allow them actnal expenses....Th* bill to repeal the duty on salt wae considered In committee of the wh01e.... Adjourned, a FOREIGN. At Berlin, on the 3d, the following dispatch from the Emperor to the Empress was publicly read amid the booming of artillery, the ringing of bells, and the cheers of the people, wild with joy. *» VxßdAiLUw, March B.—l have just ratified the conditions of peace, which the Bordeaux Assembly have accepted. Thu* far the work le complete which was through seven months’ battles to be achieved, thanks to the valor, devotion and endurance of our tmcomparable army and the sacrifices of the whole Fatherland. The Lord of Hosts has everywhere visibly blessed our enterprises, and by ills mercy has permitted an honorable peace. To Him be the honor—to the Fatherland the thanks. (Signed) “ Wilhxus." A cable telegram of the 2d gives the following as the preliminaries of peace arranged by Bismark and the other plenipotentiaries with Thiers and Favre: Article 1 specifies the line of demarcation. Article 4 provides that France will pay Germany five milliard francs —one milliard, at least, In 1871, and all the rest In the space of three years from the ratification. Article 8 provides that evacuation Is to commence on the ratification of the treaty by the Assembly; that the German troop* will then Immediately quit Pari* and the left bank of the Belne, and also the Departments of Indre, Loire, snd the Selne-tnferleure. The French troop* Will remain behind the Loire until the signing of the definite treaty of peace, except those in Paris, where the government Is not to nave exceeding 40,oO> troops. The Germans will evacuate the right bank of the Seine, gradually, after the signing o the definitive treaty, and the payment of half *. milliard francs. After the payment of two milliards the Germans will only hold the Departments of Marne. Ardennes, Mense, Voegee, Menrthe, and the town of Belfort. After the payment of three milliards, the Germane will only keep 80,000 troops in France; bnt if a sufficient monoy guarantee be given, the Germane will evacuate completely at once; otherwise, three milliards will carry interest at five per cent, from the ratification of the treaty. Article 4 provides that the German troops make no further requisitions: that the French Government will find food for the army In occupation of the ceded departments, that favor-_ able arrangements will be made with the inhabitants, and time given them to move if they please: and that no obstacle will be placed In the way of emigration. Article 6 provides that the prisoners will be immediately liberated on the ratification of the treaty, and that the French railway* will lend their carriages and engines at same price* as to the French Government. Article 7 provides that the treaty will be definitely signed at Brussels Immediately after the ratification. Article 8 provides that after the ratification the management of all the departments occupied will be handed over to the French officials, subject to German commanders, In the Interest of German troops. Article 9 provides that it be well understood that the Germans have no authority over the departments not occupied by them. A colliery explosion at Victoria, England, on the 2d, caused the death of about twenty miners. The Germans evacuated Paris on the 4th. Several Paris Journals had resumed publication. They were -unanimous in the opinion that the Impression produced by the preliminary terms of peace was very bad. They declare that no peace is real when it is obtained under such terms; but they recommend calmness and concord as the only means of making the country great and prosperous. All restrictions as to persons passing into and out of Paris has been removed. , A Berlin dispatch of the 4th sayTYictor Emmanuel had written Emperor William, expressing surprise and disappointment at the hard terms imposed on France, especially with regard to territory. Prince Frederick Charles has been appointed commander in-chief of the army of occupation in France. His headquarters will be at Rheims. It was officially announced at Florence on the 4th that a treaty of commerce between Italy and the United States had been signed. A London dispatch of the 6th says ne. gotiations for a definite treaty of peace would commence at Brussels. Favre would probably be the French Plenipotentiary. The London Time* of the 6th publishes a dispatch from Versailles that the prescribed limits of French were being rapidly evacuated by the German army. The movement was conducted quietly and with admirable order. The Paris Journal Det Debate calculates' the expenses of the war to be six milliards francs. The London Time* of the 7th announces the following changes in the Ministry : Geo. J. Goschen succeeds Hugh O. E. Childs as First Lord of the Admiralty; James Stansfield succeeds Goschen as President of the Poor Law Board; W. E. Baxter, Esq., succeeds Staasfleld as one oi the Joint Secretaries of the Treasury, and Geo. 8. Shaw Lefevre, at present Secretary for the Home Department, [succeeds Baxter, as Secretary to the Admiralty. The Prussians on the 7th delivered to the French all the forts on the left bank of the Seine.

In the French Assembly on the Bth Victor Hugo attempted a speech in defense of Garibaldi, on a committee report in favor of annulling the election of the latter to the Assembly from Algiers. Hugo was interrupted by the great tumult in the chamber, and when he attempted to continue he waa met by a storm of hisses, fie thereupon announced his resignation and abrubtly left the Assembly. Napoleon ban addressed a communication to the President of the French Assembly, protesting against the vote by which that body declared his flynssty had forfeited the throne os unjust and illegal. The Assembly, he says, was created only M make peace, and has exoeeded its powers. The foundation of all public right is “plebiteit* —to that he is ready to bow, and to that alone." DOMESTIC. Gold closed in New York on the 9th at 111. - A New York dispatch of the sth aajri

the coal panic in that city had folly ended, the opening of navigation on the Hudson and connecting canals rendering available a supply sufficient to lust till sumed. The Louisiana State Fair building at New Orleans was burned on the sth. Powers’ statue of Washington, belonging to the State, was destroyed in the Are. An earthquake shock was felt in New Hampshire on the evening of tho Gth. Up to the sth, the Treasury Department at Washington had been advised that $4,151,500 had been subscribed to tho new loan. Secretary Boutwell has directed the As sistant Treasurer -at New York to notify holders of S per cent, certificates of March 2,1867, and July 25, 1868, that all such certificates bearing date from October 15, 1867, to December 16,1867, inclusive, of the denomination of $5,000 each, between numbers 861 and 1009, and the denomination of SIO,OOO, between numbers 759 and 1070, will be p%ffi el presentation at his office, and that from and after the 18th of April, 1871, such certificates will cease to bear interest, and will be no longer available as a portion of tho lawful reserve in possession of any National Banking Association. A family named Walker, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Walker and two children, were found dead in their house in McHenry, 111., on the night of the sth. A letter explained that the father and mother had given to their children, and had taken themselves, laudanum, and were happy in believing they could take their children to a better world. At Meridian, Miss., on the evening of the 6th, while Justice Bramlette was trying a negro for riotous conduct at a fire, a disturbance occurred in the court room, and a negro named Tyler shot Bramlette, killing him instantly. Tyler and two other negroes were killed by the citizens. A dispatch from Washington on the 7th says Governor Scott, of South Carolina, had called upon the President for United Stateß troops to suppress outrages in the counties of Marion and York, where, he reports, men are murdered or driven from their homes nightly because of their political opinions. A terrible tornado passed over East St. Louis, HI., on the afternoon of the Bth, demolishing all the railroad depots and round houses on the island, and prostrating all the telegraph lines. Seven persons were known to be killed, and between thirty and forty were seriously injured. The Mount Carmel, Pa., District Miners’ and Laborers’ Beneficial Association has offered SSOO reward for the arrest and conviction of the 'parties who caused the death of Hoffman. A lire at Portsmouth, Ohio, on the morning of the 6th, destroyed the Taylor Hotel, eight mercantile establishments, the Time* newspaper office, and a number of other buildings. Loss about $200,000; insurance less than $40,000. A severe earthquake occurred at Eureka, Cal., on March 2. Many chimneys were thrown down, and the inhabitants greatly frightened. No lives were lost In the United States Supreme Court, on the 6th, the case of Virginia and West Virginia, a suit in which the former sought to recover the counties of Berkeley and Jefferson, alleged to hare been .ceded to it by the latter several years ago, and which has been twice argued, was decided in favor of West Virginia. At a meeting of the stockholders, held in Boston on the Bth, a new Board of Directors of the Union Pacific Railroad Company was chosen, and Thomas A. Scott, of Pennsylvania, was elected President.

President Grant on the Bth made the following appointment* of members of the Southern Claims Commission, as provided for by th« amendment to the Army Appropriation bill, relative to the claims of Southern loyalists: Judge Aldis, Vermont; ex-Senator Howell, of lowa, and ex-Bepresentative Ferris, of New York. At Albany, N. Y., on the Bth, Dr. Lemuel Van Hoosen, while intoxicated ami laboring under an attack of ddiriwn tremetu, killed his wife by striking her on the head with a griddle. The Van Hoosen fiunily is one of the oldest and most respected families in that city. The New York police authorities have evidence pointing to a notorious burglar and desperado as the murderer of Mr Nathan, the New York banker. A reward of $8,600 is offered for his arrest Treasurer Spinner has decided that postmasters must receive mutilated currency for its fall value in payment for postage stamps, when, in cases of. United States notes, not more than one-twentieth of the note is missing; and in some cases of fractional currency, when not more than onetwentieth is missing. When notes and fractional currency are mutilated beyond the standard referred to, no one is compelled to receive them for any part of their value, and the only place where such notes may be redeemed is at the United States Treasury.

PERSONAL. The Select Committee appointed by the Senate to investigate a charge made against Senator Sprague that he was engaged In unlawful traffic with the enemy during the late war submitted a report on the 8d that they had found no evidence sustaining the charge. Henry D. Cooke, lately appointed Governor of the District of Columbia, has informed the President that he cannot accept the position, for the reason that the negotiation of' the new Treasury bqpds will require his personal attention in Europe for several months to come. Walter Brown, the famous oarsman, died at the residence of his mother, in Newburg, N. Y., on the 8dThe Lincoln Monument Association it

Washington, on the 6tb, re-elected all Ha officers. A resolution was adopted authorizing tho President and Vice President to employ additional artists, if necessary, to aid in the work. The Grand Jury, at Washington, has found another true bill against Bowea, lato Member of Congress from - South Carolina, for bigamy. POLITICAL. The Republican State Committee of Pennsylvania has postponed the State Convention from the 10th of March to the 17th of May. The articles of impeachment against Governor Butler were read before the Nebraska Senate on the 4th, and he was ordered to appear before the bar of the Senate for trial. The impeachment of Gillespie, State Auditor, was partially acted upon. The recent Michigan State Woman Suffrage Convention adopted a memorial to the Legislature, requesting it to pass a joint resolution declaring that under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments to the United States Constitution, the women of Michigan already hove the right to vote. The Board of Managers in the Impeachment of Governor Clayton, of Arkansas, withdrew the articles of impeachment on the 4th. Governor Clayton declined to accept the United States Senatorship. At Portland, Me., on the 6th, Kingsbury, Republican, was elected Mayor. At Saco, Oliver Dier, Democrat, was elected to that position. At Rockland, Samuel Bryant, Democrat, was elected Mayor by 85 majority. At Lewiston, Dr. Alonzo Garellon, Democrat, was elected Mayor by 58 majority. At Bath, Jas. A. Robinson, Republican, was re-elected Mayor by 121 majority. The Nebraska Senate, on the 6th, organized as an impeachment court for the trial of Governor Butler. At the recent election In Boone, Go., Wm. B. Welles, Republican, was elected Mayor. Tho balance of the Republican ticket was also elected. A Jackson, Miss., special to the Memphis Avalanche of the oth says: ** Aloora positively declines to go to the Senate, and will retain the office of Governor until the Btate is folly restored. The High Court of Error and Appeals decides that the Governor has power to remove officials. This causes a flutter among those opposed to Alcorn’s polity.” At the recent charter election in Troy, N. Y n the Democrats carried the city electing Carroll, Mayor, by 2,675 majority. Elmira elects a Republican Mayor. At Poughkeepsie, Professor H. G. Eastman, Republican, was elected Mayor by 900 majority. Utica elects the entire Democratic ticket. Waterville is Democratic. At Rome the Democratic ticket was elected, New Hartford and New Booneville were carried by the Republicans. Rochester went Republican by a large majority. At Oswego, AG. Page, Democrat, was re-elected Mayor by 250 majority. At the recent city election in Rock Island, HI., Hon. Elijah Carter, Republican, was elected Mayor, and J. W. Simonson, Republican, for Police Magistrate, was also elected. The articles of impeachment against Governor Butler, of Nebraska, were served upon him, with a summons, on the evening of the 6th, and on the 7th he surrendered all the documents and the Seal of State to the acting Governor. At Des Moines, lowa, on the 6th, the Democratic Mayor, Treasurer and Independent Republican Marshal were elected by small majorities. The Council stands 13 Republicans and 1 Democrat. General Logan bas notified Governor Primer, of Illinois, that he wHI not qualify as Congressman-at-Large, but as the present session of Congress will be a short one, the Governor, it is said, will not call a special election at present At the recent charter election in Montana, lowa, the Republican ticket was successful, William B. Wells, a banker, being chosen Mayor; in Ottumwa the Demo* crats carried the city, electing their Mayor and Marshal by 100 majority; la Cedar Rapids the Republican ticket Seeded by Mr. Cook for Mayor, was successful. The South Carolina Legislature adjourned tine die on the 7th. The Rhode Island Republican State Convention, on the 9th, renominated the old ticket, as follows: For Governor, Seth Padelfbrd, Providence; Lieutenant-Gov-ernor, Pardon W. Stevens, Newport j Secretary of State, John S. Bartlett, Providence; Attorney-General, Willard Saylee, Providence; General Treasurer, Samuel A. Parker, Newport In the Ohio Legislature, on the 9th, a bill was passed to prevent cruelty to animals, and also one making it a penal offense lo sell the meatof diseased animals.

As Affectihg Bcarf*.—Here an affecting scene on a ferry-boa* ,?E2|2|L» rough river: “ Ob, Henry, this is teraUA “ Yes, it is,” he responded, Jbrt lean on me and I will protect you. Do you think it win be roush as this *U across r” “I do/ 1 responded Henry. • Then I guess I’ll have to lean upon yo< returned the lady. “For life?” whispered Henry, turning pale at the thought of rot fUsal.* “ I—l don't know—the water Is sw—fhl rough—l guess ye— yes, you d better ask pap»’’ A lady lh Berkshire, Mam, recently applied camphor to an aching tooth, ami, sitting by a stove to warmlt, snddfflnw fainted, and falling over the atom horned* herself so severely that her life was m danger. '' As obituary lately “PP**f e,i change, of which ‘he tollolringi# the including sentence: “The deceaaed iIMJA vigorous frame, sold goods on the ttl**price system, and died lamented by Who did, and many mm who m not, know him.”