Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1873 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

CONGRESS. February 27.— Senate— The credentials of It. J. Oglesby, of Illinois, were presented. ...The bill providing for a new election in Louisiana was taken up, and a lengthy debate ensued, extending into the evening session, when An amendment that the Kellogg government should continue to be recognized as the government until the new election was lost—yeas 19, nays 21. A motion was then made and rejected—yeas 20, nays 27—to lay the bill on the table.... Mr. Morrill Maine) submitted the report of the Senate CreditMobilier Committee, with a resolution that James W. Patterson be, and he is hereby, expelled from his seat as a member of the- Senate. House— The Credit-Mobllier report and resolutions were further debated, Mr. Poland concluding the discussion in a speech in behalf of the report, when a motion to lay the whole matter on the table was lost—yeas 59, nays 164—after which a motionwas agreed to—lls to 110—substituting the Sargent resolutions for those reported by thaSelect Committee. The first of these resolutions was then adopted by the following vote: Yeas— Acker, Ambler, Archer, Arthur, Banks, Barber, Barnum, Beatty, Beck (Ga.), Bell. Bigby, Biggs, Bird, Blair (Mich.), Boarman, Boles, Braxton, Bright, Buckley, Bunnell, Burchard, Burdett, Caldwell, Carroll, Campbell, Clark, Cobb, Cobum, Conger, Cotton, Cox, Crebs, Critcher, Crocker, Crossland, Darrall, Davis, Dodds, Donnau. Dox, Duboise, Duell, Duke, Dunnell. Eames, Ely, Flnkelnburg, Foster (Pa.), Foster (Ohio), Foster (Mich.), Frye, Getz, Giddings, Golladay. Goodrich, Griffith, Haldeman, Hale, Halsey, Hambleton, Hancock, Hftndley, Harmer, Harper, Harris (Miss.), Havens, Hawley (ill.), Hawley (Conn.), Hay (Ill.), Hazleton (Wis.), Hazleton (N? J.), Hereford, Hendon, Hibbard, Hall, Hoar, Holman, Houghton, Kellogg, Kendall, Ketcham, Killinger, King, Kinsella, Lannson, Lamport, Lansing, Leach, Lewis, Lowe, Lynch, Manson, Marshall. McClelland, McX’ormick, McCrary, Mclntyre, McJunken, McKee, McKinney, Merriam, Merrick, Myers, B. F., Mitchell, Monroe, Moore, Morey, Morphis, Myers, Niblack (Fla.), Niblack (Iml. i. Orr, Packard, Parker (N. Y.), Parker (Mo.), Pendleton, Poland, Porter, Patten, Price, Prindle, Randall, Read, Rice (Ill). Rice (Ky.), Richie, Roberts, E. IL, Roberts, Robinson, Rogers (N. Y.), Rogers (N. C.), Roosevelt, Busk, Sargent, Sessions, Shanks, Shellabarger, Sherwood, Shober, Shoemaker, Slater, Slocum,Smith (N. Y.), Smith (Ohio), Smith (Ky.), Speer, Sprague, Stevens, Stevenson, Storm, Stoughton, Stowell, Sutherland, Swann, Terry, Thomas, Townsend (N. Y.), Townsend (Pa.), Turner, Tuthill, Tyner. Tantrump, Taughan, Upson, Waddell, Wakeman, Walden, Waldron, Wallace, Warren, Wells, Wheeler, Whitley, Whetham, Willard, Williams (Ind.), Wilson (Ind.), Wilson (Ohio), Winchester, Wood, Young—l 81. Nays— Adams, Averill, Barry, Beck (Ky.), Brooks, Buffinton, Butler (Mass.), Butler (Tenn.), Comingo, Conner, Dickey, Eldridge, Elliott, Esty, Farwell. Garrett, Hayes, Hooker,,. Maynard, McHenry, Morphis, Negley, Packer, Peck, Pierce, Perry, Rainey, Sawyer, Seeley, Sloss, Snapp, Snyder, St. John, Twltchell, Vorhees, Williams—36. This resolution declares “That the House absolutely condemns the conduct of Oakes Ames, a member of this House, from the State of Massachusetts, in seeking to procure Congressional attention to the affairs of a corporation in which he was interested, and whose interest directly depended on the legislation of" Congress, by Inducing members of Congress to invest in the stock of said corporation.” The second resolution was then adopted-174 to 32—to the effect “That the House absolutely condemns the conduct of James Brooks, a member of this House, from New York, for the use of his position of Government Director of the Union Pacific Railroad and of member of this House to procure the assignment to himself or family of stock in the Credit-Mobllier of America, a corporation having a contract with the Union Pacific Railroad, and whose interests depended directly upon the legislation of Congress.” A resolution censuring William D. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, was offered and gave rise to a lengthy debate, when It was laid on the table—ll 7to 75. The House then refused—yeas 75, nays 108-to consider a resolution censuring Samuel Hooper, of Massachusetts. A resolution was adopted—ll 4to 75—discharging the Select Credit-MobllierCommit-tee, and the speaker stated that this action removed the matter entirely from the consideration of the House... .The Senate bill, appropriating SIO,OOO to pay the expenses of the Senate Committee for Investigating the Kansas Senatorial question was passed. February 28. Senate— An amendment to the Louisiana bill was agreed to— 22 to 20 —that, until a new election, the Kellogg Government shall bo considered the dcfacto Government ofLoulslana.... A motion to lay the bill on the table was lest, and the bill was then rejected—yeas 18, nays 20.... The credentials of J. J. Patterson, of South Carolina, were presented....Resolution* of the ' Missouri Legislature were preaeiUad, exonerating Seiwtorelect Bogy froth the charge of Bribery made against him ...Bills were passed—amending the act, authorizing honorably discharged soldiers and saHora to acquire homesteads on the public lands; legalizing the homestead entries of sol diers aad, sailors not exceeding 160 acres each- within the limits of railroad grants...,Several amendments to ‘'the River ' and Harbor Appropriation bill were agreed to. House—The conference report, extending for four years theSquthern Claims Commission and limiting it to the consideration of the claims already presented, was agreed t 0.... A resolution was presented from the-Judiciary Committee, and ndopted, for the appointment of a committee to go to the Senate and impeach Judge Delahay, of Kansas. The testimony taken showed habitual intoxication on the part of Delahay.... The bill reported by the Wilson Credit-Mobllier Committee, directing the Attorney-General to take action to recover the sums due the Government from the Union Pacific Road, was adopted as an amendment to the Legislative Appropriation Bill. ... .A motion was agreed to that Joseph B. Stewart, in custody as a recnsant witness, be discharged... . The amendment to the Legislative Appropriation bill proposing an increase In the salaries of the President, Cabinet officers, Supreme Court Jadges and members of Congress, was rejected—yeas t 9, nays 121. ■ March 1 and 2.— Senate— Bills were passed—making LaCrosse, Wls., a port of entry; River and Harbor Appropriation bill, with amendments; Texas Pacific Railroad bill; authorizing ‘J 1 ? construction of a bridge across the Mississippi, by the St. Clair and Carondelet Bridge Company, from seme point on the Illinois shore to the southern part of" St.- Louis; to provide for payment of judgments or the Southern Claims Commission.... A large number of Pension bills were also passed.... Resolutions were passed—to print 50,000 copies of the agricultural report, to be sold bv the Commission era at fifty cents each; tendering the congratulations of the United®fjtptes to the people of Spain. Houie -The vote rejecting the amendment to the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was reconsidered, and the amendment carried making the salary of the President $50,000 per annum; Chief Justice. $10,500; Associate Justices and members of the Cabinet, Vice-President and Speaker Of the House, $10,000; Senators and members of the House, $6,500, mileage, etc., being cut off, and the Inarease of salaries to apply to the members of the present Congress. A Conference Committee on the bill was appointed.... Bills were passed—Senate bill authorizing the Texas Pacific Itallwav Company to issue currency bonds instead of coin bonds; Senate bill authorizing the construction of a railway bridge across the Missouri Blia?r at Lexington, Mo.; to reimburse Treasurer Bpmner $61,174 for losses in his office through the embezzlement of employes: Senate bill for the supmreerton of trade in obscene Uteratnre; extending by two years the time for pre-emptorson public lands in Minnesota and Dakota to make payment therefor; Deficiency Appropriation bill •■•• A bill .was reported and ordered printed, securing the interests of the United States p n „n * he * pnhn< i 016 Central Pacific Railway... . Several of the Senate amendments to the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill were non-concurred in a joiht resolution was meat, and requesting the President to transmit the resolution to the American Minister at .Madrid, with Instructionß to present it to the Spanish Government - March 8 —The House resolution ordering printed 10,000 copies of the testimony before tbe Poland Credit-Mobllier Committee was concurred 1n.... The credentials of Messrs. Ingalls, of Kansas, and Wadller, of Georgia, were presentedßills were passed -House bill to amend the . tariff act of June 6, 1872, with an amendment; the Deficiency Appropriation bill ; House substitute for Senate bill relating to the sale 2 ,a Ca l!;i2?> a 1& 2,d5... .Conference reports on the bundry Civil and the Post-Office Appropriation bills were concurred inCommnnica,ona,,„ . Presented from members . ti e Legislature of South Carolina against n H S , e l2 Ct,on ? s Senator from Louisiana and stating that his credential* were on the way and asking the Senate to take notice of the fact of his election The Impeachment of Judge Delahaywa* reported to the Senate by the Houie Committee... A report was made and agreed to from the-Conference Committee on the Geneva Award bill,-that altar full: and free inference the representatives of the Senate were unable to agree with those of the House. The committees of the two Houses were fully agreed as to the fact that the actual losses ought to be paid,but disagreed

as to the class of losses and as to the war premium. On this point the House conferees would come to no agreement that the Senate conferees thought they would be justified In accepting. They, therefore. had concluded that the best thing now would .beta invest the money in live per cent, registered bonds of~TKe United BtatfiA, ]to‘ M held subject to the future action of Congress. House— The Conference Committee’s report bn the Bundry Appropriation bill, cutliugdown the Senate amendments $3,800,000, was agreed t 0.... The request of the Senate Tor a Conference Committee on the Agricultural College land grant was refused.. ..Bills were passed—substitute for the Senate bill authorizing the entry of 160 acres of coal lands by Individuals, or 820 acres by associations, at the rate of $lO per acre where the laud Is not within fifteen miles of a completed railway, and S2O per aqre where it is; allowing the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company to extend its route from the western line of Kansas to Pueblo, Col., and a branch road from a point on the main line southwesterly to San Felipe on the Rio Grande; Senate bill to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain, with amendments; Senate bill to authorize inqultU* into the Causes of steam boiler explosion*;, to encourage the growth of timber on Western prairies; Senate bill to place colored persons who enlisted in the army as slaves on the same footing as other soldiers' pensions,.... Mr. Dawes, from.the Committee on Ways and Means, reported the testimony taken in the matter of the Pacific Mail subsidy to be deposited with the Clerk of the House, to be laid by him before the next Congress, and stated that nothing in the testimony implicated any member or employe of the House. ....A resolution was unanimously adopted tendering the thanks of the House to Speaker Blaine for the distinguished ability and impartiality with which he had discharged the duties of Speaker of the House in the Forty-second C’on§ress....The salaries amendment to the Legislave Appropriation Bill, as reported by the Conference Committee, was concurred in by 103 ayes to 94 noes. It fixes the salary of the President at $50,000; Vice-President, Justices of the Supreme Court, Cabinet officers and Speaker, $10,090 each; Chief Justice, $10,500; Senators and Representatives, $7,500 each, including members of the present Congress, the increase to "Win Hew of all allowances except for actual traveling expenses to the capital and return. The Edmunds amendment relative to the Pacific roads, directing the withholding of pay for transportation of malls, etc., and Wilson’s amendment directing suits to be brought against the Credit-Mobllier, were agreed to. Morrill’s amendment suspending payment of judgment rendered by the Court of Claims in favor of disloyal claimants was stricken out. March 4.— Senate— Bills were passed—for a pension of SSO per month for the widow of General W. W. Morris, and a like pension to the widow of General Wood, the daughter of exPresident Zachary Taylor: to remove the political disabilities of R M. T. Hunter; to extend the time for the restoration to market of the Ottawa and Chippewa lands of Michigan; House bills, authorizing the Secretary of War to furnish a duplicate certificate of discharge where; the same has been lost; authorizing tbe Secretary of War to survey plats and sell the present cemetery grounds upon the Fort Gratiot military reservaon in Michigan and for other purposes; granting right of way through the public lands to the Utah Northern Pacific Railway; Company; to confirm certain land titles in the State of Missouri, with amendments... .The Conference report on the Deficiency Appropriation bill was concurred in.... Vice-President Colfax administered the oath of office to Vlce-Pre»ldent»elect Wilson, and at twelve o’clock m. tbe second session *f ths Senate of tbe Forty-second Congress was declared adjourned Vice-President Wilson then called the Senate of the Forty-third Congress to order, and several new members were sworn in. House— Senate bills - were passed—to establish a board of local inspectors of steam vessels in Michigan; to amend the act to enable discharged soldiersand sailors to acquire homesteads on public lauds; to authorize the interment of honorably discharged soldier* and marines in na tional cemeteries... .The Conference report on the Deficiency bill was agreed to. Mr. Garfield gave notice that the summing up by the Poland Committee of the testimony in the Credit-Mobllier matter as to him (Garfield) was inaccurate, and that he had had no opportunity to present corrections, which he had prepared and Would make public..<.ln a short speech the Speaker then declared the House of the Forty-second Congress adjourned sine die. THE OLD WOULD. At Liverpool, Eng., recently, five women lost their lives by a fire which occurred in al seed and rice packing house. The Catholic bishops’" bf Ireland have resolved to oppose the education bill, and have sent an address to the Irish members of parliament Urging them to press for its withdrawal. Spanish advices of the 28th state that Infante Alfonso, brother of Don Carlos, had issued a proclamation In his behalf, calling on the soldiers of the regular army to join the Carlists, and offering the officers advanced rank. Advices from Paris state that, a reconciliation had been effected between the Duke of Montpensler and ex-Queen Isabella. The Prince Alfonso is tomarry the daughter oL the Duke, who will assume the Regency of Spain. A London dispatch, Bd, says that discovery had been made of frauds of a gigantic scale on the Bank of England, committed by one Warren, altys Horton, an American, through a series of skillful forgeries on the name of Rothschilds and other great financial houses. A reward of £I,OOO had been offered for his apprehension. The ship Chacabuco, from San Francisco for Liverpool, ran into the ship Torch, in the Irish Channel. The Chacabuco sunk in a few minutes after the collision, and twentyfour of the ship’s company were drowned. The Torch also went down, but alien board were saved. European advices of the Ist contradict a report that the Kbivan expedition had been abandoned by Russia. The ships Tres Marlas and Cilass came into collision in the harbor of Cadiz, Spain, and ninety persons were reported drowned. The bark Bayne, from Batavia for Falmouth, was wrecked in Mountese Bay, on the southwest coast of England, and fifteen of her crew were drowned. Three hundred Liberal Catholics have united in an address to Pere Hyacinthe, urging him to resume the pulpit at Geneva A favorable reply was received. THE NEW WORLD. Gold closed In New York on the sth at 115@U5%, The Republicans of the Second District of Connecticut have renominated Stephen W. Kellogg for Congress. The Democrats have nominated cx-Govcrnor James E. English. The mattress factory of George A. Hammett, in Boston, was burned en the 27th. Sixteen girls were at work on the fourth floor, and it is thought that two failed to escape and were buried in the ruins. Two others were badly injured by jumping from the burning building. The walls of the building fell outward while the firemen were at work, and two were killed outright, fourteen were Injured—two of them fatally, it was thought—and one was missing. The Chicago Woman’s Hospital Medical College on the 271 h, granted diplomas to six female graduates. The Michigan Republican State Convention, in session at Lansing on the 26th, nominated E. C. Walker, of Wayne County, and Andrew J. CJinie.of St. Joseph County,’ for Regents of the Univerity. Judge Christiany was renominated for the Supreme Court, by acclamation. 'tr Governor Hendricks has signed the new Indians Temperance bill, and it Is now a law. In the Illinois House of Representatives, on the 26th, a bill to abolish capital punishment was indefinitely postponed by a vote of 56 to 43. -.’.i «■ ~ .. Alexander H. Stephens was on the 26th,/J —r—-

elected Member of Congress from Georgia. Governor McEnery issued a proclamation on the 26th calling upon all the arms-bear-ing citizens of New Orleans, between the ages of eighteen, and forty-five, to enroll themselves at once on duty as militia-men, and continue as long as the then existing emergency in public affairs continued. The case of the Government against Phelps, Dodge & Co., of New York, for violation of the revenue laws, has finally been adjusted by the payment to the Government by that firm of $271,000. A dispatch from Minneapolis, 28th, says it is estimated that there are from 10,000,000 to 12,000,000 bushels surplus wheat In Minnesota yet to go forward. The Morgan Envelope Company, of Springfield, Mass., has been awarded the contract for furnishing the Government postal cards at 1.38% per thousand. The contract Is to run for four years, and the cards are To b~e~ready for delivery May-L Fourteen bids were received. A destructive fire occurred In New Orleans on the 27th, destroying nearly six squares, bounded by St. Cloud, Dauphine and Mandeville streets and Washington avenue. About two hundred houses (mostly small frame dwellings) and their contents were consumed. Loss estimated at $250,000. About two hundred families are left homeless. The Illinois Supreme Court has issued a supersedeas in the case of Rafferty, the murderer of a Chicago policaman. The Prohibitionists of Michigan have nominated Ronald Kelley, of Detroit, and Oscar D.apaldiag,ofHastiugs,forßegentsinthc State University. They made no nomination for Supreme Judge. At the suit of Mrs. Lucy Fisk, Judge .Blatchford, of New York, on the Ist, grant ed a temporary injunction restraining the Credit-Mnbiler from dissolving until time is obtained for. judicial determination of certain heavy claims which her husband, James Fisk, Jr., had against the company, and which are opposed, oiTthe ground that he obtained the shares in an illegal manner. The counsel of George Washington Bowen, plaintiff in the Jumel will case, on the Ist filed a bill of exceptions in the United States Court, and the defendant was allowed twenty days to amend the exceptions. The Republican members of the Missouri Legislature ask the United States Senate to order an investigation into the election of Louie V. Bogy as Senator from Missouri. The following is the condition of the public debt March 1: Six per cent, b0nd5,.151,839,245,700 Five per cent, bonds 414,567,300 Total coin bonds,, $1,758,813,000 Lawful money defit......15.938,000 Matured debt 3,098,240 Legal-tender notes.,.. 356,084,302 Certificates of deposit 27,770,000 Fractional currency 45,292,106 Ooiq certificates 24.024,980 Total debt 2,226,065,628 Interest 29,616,755 Total gross debt.. 52,255,682,383 Cash in TreasuryCoini ..$ 65,930,781 Currency 4,600,902 Special deposits held for redemption ot certificates of deposit, as provided by law 27,770.000 Total in Treasurys 98,301,684 Debt less cash In Treasury. $2,157,380,700 Decrease during the month 5,277,880 Bonds Issued to the Pacific Railroad Companies, Interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding.. 64,623,672 Interest accrued and not yet paid.... 646,235 Interest paid by the United States .. 18,509,289 Interest repaid by transportation of mails, etc. 4,185,353 Balance of Interest paid by the United Statess 14,823,927 The Chicago and Alton Railroad, on the 3d, commenced a suit in the United States Circuit Court at Bloomington, HL, against a number et farmers, mostly residents in McLean County, the damages in ’each case being laid at SIO,OOO. The occasion "tor the suit is the fact that a short time ago the defendants’ got on the train at Lexington, and offered to pay their fare to Bloomington at the rate of three cents per utile. The conductor received the money and allowed them to ride as far as the amount would pay, according to the company’s tariff, and then tried to put them off. This was resisted, and the train was delayed about two hours until sufficient force could be had to expel the party. It is for this delay and for the riotous actions of the defendants that damages are claimed. The Democratic State Central Committee of Kentucky have published a call for a Stale Convention, to meet May 1, to nominate a candidate for State Treasurer. The President has pardoned Miles Carroll, Miles McCulloch, Henry Warlick and James A. Banders, of South Carolina, convicted of Ku-Klux crimes, and sentenced to the Albany Penitentiary. . - > By direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Assistant Treasurer at New York will purchase $1,000,000 bonds on the first -and third Wednesdays, and $500,000 on the second and fourth Wednesdays, and sell s],500,000 in coin on each Tuesday during the current month of March. We learn by a Washington telegram of the 3d that the House Judiciary Committee had determined to postpone action in the case of Judge Sherman, of Ohio,until next winter, owing to insufficient time for its mature consideration. It is stated in dispatches from Washington that Senator Pomeroy intends to contest the right of Ingalls to take a seat in the Senate as his successor, on the ground that he (Pomeroy) was defeated and Ingalls elected by a fraud suddenly sprung , upon the Kansas Legislature by State Senator York. i On the Ist, the McEnery Legislature of Louisiana elected General W. L. McMillan United States Senator for the long term, commencing March 4. The vote stood l McMillan, 45; Warmoth, 83; scattering, 7. The Dominion Parliament assembled at Ottawa on the sth and unanimously elected James Cockbju-n Speaker. The Senate Committee appointed to investigate the charges of bribery preferred against Senator Pomeroy made their report on the 3d, to the effect that a majority ot the Committee arc of tho opinion that none of the charges preferred by Simpson, consisting of a number of alleged specific acts of bribery, or attempts to bribe, had been sustained. Wiyi regard to the charge preferred by Mr. York that Mr. Pomeroy gave him $7,000 as a bribe to vote for him, the Committee give Mr. Pomeroy’s statement that he did hand Mr. York the* money as stated, not as a bribe, but to carry t o Mr. Psge as a loan from Mr. Pomeroy to aid Mr. Page in thepurchase of United States bond*,, and t£e Committee say the question toy them to deter-

mine is not which of either of those two statements, painfully irreconcilable, is in all its details true, but whether, taking all the testimony together and weighing it, York has sustained his charge. .The Committee state that York’s testimony was contradictory, and he had failed to make good his charge. In considering the statement of Pomeroy that he gave York the $7,000 to take to Page to enable him to purchase United States bonds to aid in establishing A National Bank, the Committee say Pomeroy is entitled, to the extent that other men are, to the presumption of innocence, a presumption which, they say, is somewhat strengthened by the fact that his accusers have failed to sustain their other charges against him in the same election. This report is signed by Senators Frelinghuysen, Buckingham and Alcorn. Mr. Thurman filed a minority report, finding the charges in both cases sustained. Senator Viekers, the other member ot the committee, also made a minority report, which summed up is, that upon the testimony he does not conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that the charges made were sustained. President Grant has promoted Levi P. Lockey, of Illinois, to be his Private Secretary, C. C. Sniffen, Assistant Private Secretary, and O. L. Prnden, Executive Clerk. These promotions are said to be in accordance with the principle of the civil service reform. A Washington telegram of the sth says the only immediate change in the Cabinet -will be in the Secretaryship of the Treasury, should the present incumbent be elected to the Senate of the United States. A respite until March 31 has been granted by Governor Dix to Foster, the New York ear-hook murderer. Mrs. Putnam, the widow of the murdered man, joined in the petition to have his sentence commuted to imprisonment for life. The New York State Senate has refused, by a vote of 7 to 16, to declare Boss Tweed’s seat in that body vacant. The Republicans of the First Congressional District of Connecticut have renominated for Congress Gen. J. R. Hawley; the Democrats of the same district have nominated 8. P. Kendall. A Topeka, Kansas, dispatch of the 4th says that J. C. Page had brought suit in the District Court against Governor Osborn, Lieutenant-Governor Stover, State Treasurer Hayes, and Col. York for the recovery of the $7,000 procured by York from Senator Pomeroy. The Sheriff found the money in the State Treasurer’s safe, and took charge of It. Defendants subsequently gave bonds for the money, under the statute, and the historic packages were restored to their possession. The Chicago Tribune of the 4th is informed by “a thoroughly reliable writer, interested to know and present facts, that the peach-crop is mined in Michigan, as well as in Illinois and Indiana, and that there will be no peaches, in the West at least, this year.” John J. Jacobs was inaugurated Governor of West Virginia, on the sth. The other State and executive officers also took the prescribed oath of office. On the night .of the 4th the McEnery militia quietly took possession of the Seventh Precinct (New Orleans) Police Station, they meeting with no opposition. The following night they attacked the Third Precinct Station, firing into the building. The fire was returned by the police. Soon after, General Badger, Chief ot the Metropolitan Police, moved down Chartres street from Canal, with about 200 men and one piece of artillery. Quite a large body had by this time collected about Jackson Square, and on the streets leading thereto. When near the crowd, General Badger ordered them to disperse. The militia refused to give way, when the police tired a blank cartridge, and soon after, another shot was fired. This time the gun was loaded with grape. By this one man was killed and several wounded. Another charge of grape was fired out of St. Ann street. Some ten or twelve were wounded, but only one man was reported killed. Only one policetfian was wounded during the entire fight. The United States troops subsequently reached the scene of conflict, and the remaining militia retired, leaving them in possession. A dispatch on the night of the sth says a compromise was regarded as impossible.