gtete rf tlj t p&tfL Xl.tli CONGRESS—First Session. Senate —April 28.—Mr. Williamß concluded his argument, and Mr. Evans spoke in behalf of the defence. April 29. —Mr. Evarts continued his argument on behalf of the President. April 30.—Mr. Nelson, counsel for the President, apologized, after a fashion, for the intimation that he would like to fight a duel with Mr. Butler. Senator Cameron’s order for night sessions was tabled. Mr. Evarts then continued his argument. May I.—Mr. Evarts concluded his argument for the defence, and Mr. Stanbery’s argument was be gun. May 2.—Mr. Stanbery closed his argument. In reg ular session the House amendments to the Appropri ation Bill were non-concurred in, and a committee of conference appointed. May 4.—Mr, Bingham began his final argument. House.— April 28.—Bills for the admission of South Carolina, North Carolina and Louisiana, were referred. The Committee' on Retrenchment were directed to inquire into the alleged fraudulent sale by the Navy Department, of the iron-elads Ne osho and Catawba. A joint resolution requesting the President to send war vessels to the St. Law rence for the protection of the American fishing vessels, under the treaty of 1783, was referred. April 30.—The Secretary of the Navy was re quested to furnish a list of vessels and property destroyed during the war, the disposition made of each capture, and the cause ol delay in payment of prize money. May 4.—A committee was appointed to investi gate charges brought by Mr. Washbnrne. of 111., in a letter to a constituent of Mr. Donnelly of Minn., against the latter. Treasury. —During the. first three months of this, year only i 3,30.1,000 were received from the tax on distilled spirits. A few of the districts made no returns. —The customs receipts at New York, Bos ton, and Philadelphia, from April 20lh to the 25th, amounted to $2,925,239. The receipts at Baltimore from the 13th to 25th, were $337,734, and at New Orleans from the 6th to 13th, were $224,418.. Pardons. —John Y. Kendall, of Maryland, un der sentence of $4BOO fine and one year imprison ment, for illegal distfllation, has been pardoned by the President. -> • STATES AND T KRRITORIES. Massachusetts.— The Judiciary Committee of the House, which, for some days, had been hearing arguments for .and against female suffrage, report ed unanimously against it, April 28, and both Houses agreed to the report; This is the third time that the Legislature lias rejected female suffrage.—The President of one of the Boston Savings Banks states that the deposits have been doubled during 1867, through extensive advertising in the newspapers.— The new license law goes into effect on May 23d, so that after that date the open and legal sale of liquor will recommence.—Tue music in the Boston church es costs $50,000 per annum. One church pays its chief artist $l5OO, and expends on the choir $6OOO. Rhode Island.— The mayor cf Providence has suspended a detective in that city for attending a prize fight as a spectator. Connecticut. —The deeds for the site of the navy yard, at New London, huve been sent on to the De partment at Washington. Mew Hampshire. —Ex-Gov. Parker, of New Jer sey, has given Dartmouth College $lOOO towards purchasing and fitting up a tract of eight acres of land, as a college park.—The students of the Col lege are reported to have broken into the chapel and destroyed the organ, in revenge for the expulsion of some of their classmates. ■ New York. —An order has been received in the city, from Athens, for the construction of an iron clad monitor for the Cretan Navy. The vessel is to be built at once, at a cost of $1,500,000. —The total State debt is more than $61,000,000, and the local indebtedness is atsBo,ooo,ooo more. $18,149,600 is the Canal Debt. . Tor the extinguish ment of these the present Constitution sets apart an nually $2,050,000 from the Canal revenues, and it is expected that all will be paid off by 1879.—F0r the first four months of 1868, there arrived at New York, 37,579 immigrants from Europe, as compared with 49,061 arrivals during the same period of 1867, a decrease 11,582. —The committee of the Legisla ture charged to find out if any one has attempted to bribe any member of the Legislature, has report ed that “if there be corruption in and about the Legislature, which possibly there is, the operations of those engaged in illegitimate practices are so adroit and guarded that we have found it impossi ble to discover them." Pennsylvania. —The monument to be erected at Doylestown. to the memory of the dead of the 104th Pennsylvania, will be dedicated on May 30th.—An American Aerial Navigation Company. has been formed in Bethlehem. John Wise, the Aeronaut, is the Chief Engineer. —Lancaster held its municipal election May Ist. The Democrats elected the May or by 325 majority, a loss of over 100 since last year. The Republicans gain one Select and nine Common Councilmen, making a tie on joint ballot. New Jersey. —The cranberry culture is rapidly becoming a leading industry. Large swamps are, being cleared, and the prospects are that thousands, of acres of new land will this year be planted with tlie cranberry. Ohio. —Vailandigham has assumed formal charge of the editorial department ot the Dayton Ledger. Illinois. —Corner loungers in Chicago are fined $25 for the first offence, &-0 for the second, and $lOO for the third, and ior further violations of the ordinance, any sum in the discretion of the magis trate. Maryland.—Three members of the Baltimore city Councils were expelled for receiving compensa tion for services in procuring the endorsement of tlie bonds of the Western Maryland Railroad by the City of Baltimore.—A duel was fought, May 4, near Baltimore, between Count von Lottum of the Pru sian Legation and Gen. Lawrence, of Rhode Island. Nobody hurt. Virginia. —Tlie bail bond of Jefferson Davis w»a renewed in the U. S. Court at Richmond, May 2d, the’accused being held to appear at the next term, in the fourth week of May. Tennessee. —Gov. Browniow announces his de termination to call out a miiitia force to suppress lawlessness and violence, which he says existin' certain parts of Middle and West Tennessee. The Knoxville Whig prints a letter, signed bv Various members of the Legislature, which is not now in session, urging him to this eourse. - The citizens of Memphis, at an election held on April 30th, decided, ov a majority of 6 )0, to is-ue bonds to the amount of $1,000,000 to fund the city debt. Georgia. General Meade ordered a Board of Army officers to meet at Atlanta on tlie 4th, to count the returns.—This State is at length known to be Republican on every ticket—Constitution. Go vernor, Senate, House, and four out of seven Repre sentatives in Congress. Bullock’s majority will exceed 7030, the white vote for him being much larger than was expected. The Constitution has 15 000 majority, and there will be a majority of 16 on’joint ballot in ihe Legislature.- There was a most determined struggle, a heavy vote, and a most gratifying result. She will soou be in the Union as she ought to be. North Carolina. —Peanuts have almost taken the place of cotton as the great staple, and bring t heir cultivators annually $lOO per acre. THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1868. South Carolina. —The official majority for the Constitution, as reported by Gen. Canby, is 43,400. —The official returns show that out of a total reg istry of 133,597 voters, 98,048 voted. There were cast 70,758 votes for the Constitution,, and 27 288 against it; a majority in its favor of 42,470. —Gen. Canby orders that laborers discharged for voting against the wishes of their employers be supported at the public cost by the levy ofan extra poor tax. Mississippi.—The Convention has nearly com pleted its work on the new Constitution. Louisiana. —Gen. Buchanan has appointed a board of three army officers to examine and count the votes in the election.—Unofficial returns show a majority in all the parishes for the Constitution of 17,803. The Senate will stand 22 Republicans to 14 Democrats, and the House 60 Republicans to 41 Democrats.—The sugar plantations are doing well, and it is estimated that there ib cane enough in the ground to produce 150,000 hogsheads of sugar.—The Republican Convention has nominated several colored Presidential electors and delegates to the Chicago Convention. Arkansas.— Tile Tribune correspondent at Little Rock says, it is known that Reconstruction has been carried by 1600 majority. The Legislature has acted on the Constitutional Amendmentj—The mur ders of last year were 148; the assassinations 124. The rebel judges had tried but 10. BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. April 28. — London. —ln the Commons, Disraeli said the Ministry wished for the fullest discussion,of the Irish Church question. Mr. Gladstone lioped the debate would .not delay the business of the House; —Official despatches from th'e Indian Government state that Yakoob Khan has obtained animportant victory over the Russians, and lias .expelled theiii from Kandahar.—The trial of Burke, CaTey iand Shaw commenced this: morning; in the Court of: Queen’s Bench. Burke’s counsel moved that a mix ed jury of Englishmen and foreigners be empanelled to try Burke, on the ground that his client was an alien, and offered as proof the defendant’s national ity, a passport signed by Minister Adams. The va lidity, of this proof was argued, and the Court finally ruled out the paper, and the motion for a mixed jury was accordingly denied. The counsel proceeded to open the case for the prosecution! Carrigan testi fied that he knew Burke in the United States. Burke was sent to buy arms in England for the rising in- Ireland. Maney testified that he saw Burke com missioned in America to raise an insurrection in Ireland, and. afterwards; met him in London and, sent him to Ireland.—The speech of the,King of Prussia, was not at the opening'of the North G'er-' man Parliament, but at the Zollv.erein Diet, which commenced its sessions yesterday. April 29. —Berlin. —The reduction in. the Prus sian army will be 12.000 men. — Paris.— The, Mom tear has advices from Paraguay to the effect that the allied forces, land and naval, have made them selves masters of all the principal positions around the Fortress of Humaita, and it is thought the place cannot long hold out. Further advices from Para guayan sources, admit that the Brazilian iron-clads passed Humaita under the fire of its guns, assisted by batteries planted around the fortress, who kept up a terrific fire upon-the Paraguayans during the passage. The killed and wounded on % board, the. fleet numbered 1500 men. V Lbp'ez ; had massed liis army at the northern extremity pf~:his lines* wl’lch renders probable the abandonment of Curupaity by the Paraguayans. April 30. — London, midnight— In- the House of Commons to-night, the debate on the Irish Church was Continued. —The trial of Burke and Shaw was resumed. At the suggestion of Judge Bramwell, the proceedings against Carey were discontinued, and the prisoner was discharged., The verdict was ren dered of guilty against Burke and Shaw. Burke said lie was content with , the verdict, though he was not a subject of the Queen. The Judge then sentenced Burke to 15 years and Shaw to 7 years’ imprisonment. , jj a yl. — London. —The debate on the abolition of . the! Irish Church, continued until a late hour. Mr. Gladstone closed on the Liberal side with a power- ful speech against the continuance of-the Irish Church, denying that he had part or lot in the pro jects ot either the Ritualists or Catholics. Disraeli followed in a bitter speech, calling the scheme one . of confiscation and violence, to which the people.pf England would never consent. A division took place on the first-resolve, and.it was adopted by the Liberal majority of 65, a Liberal gain of 9. Disraeli said the Ministers needed time to decide as to what course they would pursue, and the House adjourned until Monday next. —Disraeli has gone fo’Osborne to consult with the Queen. — Evening. —The belief has become general that after the passage of the Reform bill for Ireland and Scotland, Disraeli will dissolve Parliament and appeal to the people on the ■ Irish Church question. The Globe, (ministerial or gan) of this afternoon, confirms this opinion.— r Cork. E. Mahoney, Head Centre of the Fenian organiza tion, and several other Fenians, have been discharg ed from custody, and released from all further legal proceedings. M'ay 2. — London. —The Athens journals say that the. Cretan war is continued with much animation, and that a battle, which lasted the entire day, was fou<'ht at Apocoronaon the 14th_of April. The in surgents'claimed the victory. Fights have also ta ken" place,on the 1 lth, 12th, 15th and 16th of April, but without decisive results. The Turkish Boldiers commit great outrages. The steamers from Greece running tive'blockade for the. relief of the Christians and the landing of munitions of war continue to ply. MaV 3.—-It is said that Disraeli tendered his re signation, but that it was riot accepted. Gladstone, on Monday, will move to suspend all or ders and take up'ihe resolutions introduced by him relative to the Irish, Church. If the resolutions are carried, it is thougik an address to the Queen will follow. \\ May 4. — London, nd\^n : ght. —In the Commons to night Disraeli eulogizedNthe Tory ministry at great length, denounced Gladstone's resolutions as certain to end in the overthrow \f\the Church of England, and the absorption of all. sects in the Church of Rome. He said her Majesfcr.had refused to,receive his resignation and urged hnrnnot to dissolve Par liament until an appeal couldND? made to the con 'stituences created by the new Bill [i. e., not till J auuary.] He deprecated Glaiistone’s urgency, and hoped that the suspension ofVll orders would not be pressed, as, if the debate mu\t\go on, he was ready to give some other government*iQiarge of it. Gladstone denounced Disraeli’s enlogyipXthe Tories as in bad taste and partly false, laughedsffi his pro phesies, and denounced the proposal to dissolve Parliament after such a defeat as unheard\o,\. He said the proposal to hold office the rest of theXyear was utterly unconstitutional. The Liberals wosild go on, and if the resolves on the Irish Church pass ed the House, a hill would follow them. He woUlm, not urge a suspension to-night, if the Ministry would ! fix an early day to continue the debate. Lowe de nounced the Tory policy as unconstitutional, and Bright denounced the Ministry from its beginning. Disraeli, in reply, asked why Liberals had not pass ed a vote of want of confidence, and fixed May 7 for the debate. FOREIGN. England. —It is thought that nearly one-fifth of the people of London received hospital relief at the public expense, at some time during the year.— There is a ‘‘National Society for Women’s Suf frage’’ in England, under whose auspices the meetings are held, and numerous female orators appear among the speakers, including a daughter of John Bright./ Canada.—Thomas D’Arcy McGee left his es tate heavily in debt.. Subscriptions are now being taken up to pay these debts, and the Canadian Par liament has voted to his widow a pension of $l2OO annually, and has given each of his daughters s4ooo.—ln the House of Commons, Mr. McDougall of Nova Scotia, offered resolutions repealing the Confederation compact, saying bloodshed might re sult if Nova Scotia were not released. A motion to consider the resolutions in committee was lost, and an amendment supporting the Confederation was carried by a large majority. France- —Most of the foreign and many of the French Opposition journals say that the Emperor has made up his mind for war. This all the French journals in the interest of Government most posi tively deny. The Opposition journals point to the armaments, and say “ Aggression the Govern ment journals say “Delence.’’-h-The “Christian Dressmakers " is the title of a new society in Paris, established for the purpose of discouraging low necked dresses. The members take a solemn oath not to make such garments.—ln Algeria the Arabs are said to be still dying by hundreds of starvation; in one district 1500 natives have perished within twenty-nine days. Many of the miserable creatures, driven mad by hunger, have turned cannibals. . Nassau. —lll this well known British blockade runners’ haven, there has for some time past been a crisis in the Government, and it has produced a new election of members of the Legislature. This resulted in a Government majority of. ten, and the defeated party, resorting to, riotous demonstrations, were fired upon by the soldiery. . The. Alabama Claims are now up . again for ad justment, and the British government has'express ed itself desirous of an arbitration. Among the claims persistingly pressed, are those of the ever present and active J. C. 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Send for circular to LOWS PRESS COMPANY, 23 Water Street, Beaton. ,ap2B 8t TOWLE'S PILE AND HUMOB ONER THE Greatest Medicine in the World. Admitted by all Nations I One Bottle warranted’* perfect cure in all kinds of Piles. Two to three bottles m the worst cases of LEPROSY, SCROFULA, SALT RHEUM, and ALL DISEASES OP THE SKIN. For-internal and external,use. In casts of failure all dealers are authorized to re fund the money and charge it back to me.. Np.cnseB,ef failure,ior,., ten yean. Prepared by HENRY D. FOWLE,.Chemist, 71 Prince ’ St., Boston.- Sold everywhere. $1 a bottle. ap23 4t A G E N T 8 W A N T £.9. PEOPLE in want of, and Agents who are selling all kinds of SEWING MACHINES, are requested to address mo (with stamp) for greatly reduced prices and terms. 3. K. Pearsons, Box 4> Charlestown, Mass. - ■ ap23 4k MRS. PAIGE’S NEW METHOD FOE THE Piano-forte, Organ and Voice. OWING to the great popularity of Mrs. Paige's System of in struction, applications for touchers are constantly being received from different parts of the country. To meet this demand, a large number ofladles and gentlemen are wanted immediately at pur Studio to .qualify themselves for this work, and positions will be secured for them. Those desiring the use of instruments can be accommodated at eur rooms., This method is so simple and comprehensive that after on* month of close application, parties*can commence teaching and' continue their course by correspondence. It is not a superficial process, but it gives a thorough knowledge oftbe science of music, mathematically arranged. More can be acquired in six months than by any other method for years. Pupils have more practice in thru months in this than in three years by the old system. Hence it brings a musical education within the reach of all; and it applies to all music precisely as it is without any change whatever. These statements can be substan tiated by facts. References will be given on application. Having obtained the assistance of able and experienced teach ers, we are prepared to give our patrons all needed attention* Pupils admited for private lessons at any time. Adult, and .juve nile classes will be formed at our for the Piano, Organ aud Vocal Music by the quarter or by the year. The public are cautioned against imposters. No one is author ized to teach this method except theme who can present diplomas bearing Mrs, J. B. Paige’s signatuie, who is the inventor and solo proprietor. Terms made easy. For. Circulars address with enclosed stanip Mrs. J.B PAIGE Rooms 9 4 4 Chickeriug’s Block, 246 Washington St., Boston, Hass* <S*AKA Per month garanteed to agents everywhere selling .our w«Ww Patent Everlasting Metallic Clothes Lines. Write for circu lars to Am. Wire Co., 75 William St., N. l6 Dearborn St v Chicago, 111. apr23 4t PATENT OFFICES. INVENTORS who wish to take out Letters Parent are advised to counsel with MUNN & GO., Editors of the SAcntijic. American* who have prosecuted claims before the Patent Office,for over twen ty years. Their American and European Patent Agency Is the lunat extensive in the world. Charges leas than any other reliable Agency. r/ A pamphlet containing lull instructions to inventors sent gratis. A handsome bouHd:volume, containing 15t> mechani cal engravings, and the United Slates Census by counties, with hints and receipts for mechanics; mailed'on receipt of 25 cents. Address, MUNN A CO., 37 Park Row, New York. POOK AGENTS WANTED For “ME® OF OCR TIMES,” Or, Leading Patriots of the Day. An elegant octavo volume, rich ly.-illustrated with 18 beautiful steel engravings, and a portrait of the author, ‘ MJiBBIBT BXBCBJEB STOWB. Agents, say it ; is the best, and tills the quickest of any book they ever sold Some are taking 200 orders per week. It will outsell “ Uncle Ybm'r Cabin." We employ no general agents, but pay ex tra commission. Old agents will appreciate this item. Send for circulars'giving full'particulars. Address, HARTFORD PUB LISHING 00., Hartford, Ct. apr23-lt $4. Sewing Machine. $4. The celebrated $4 CHAMPION SEWING MACHINE « a glorious triumph. It is lately patented, and is entirely new and original. It stitches and embroiders beautifully, making the famous elastic “Lock Stitch. 0 The.ladies are in love. with it, and ' agents make froLVsloo to $3OO a month selling them. Every Ma chine warranted 5; years. For a f sample Machine and terms to agents enclosed, and send at our risk if you register the letter.* Address, in plain hand, M. LEWIS &, 00., Manufacturers’ Office, 149 Broadway, N. Y. i _ apr23-4fc 21X0. ; 20.00
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