The Pittsburgh gazette. (Pittsburgh, Pa.) 1866-1877, June 25, 1868, Image 1
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Referred to Com p mitted On - Military Affairs. -, Mr.•AOHNSON presented a memorial of t the ladies: composing the Mount Vernon r 'Association asking an appropriation of PDX*. 161 r. CONNESS called up the bill ranking rj, eight hours i day's wart for laborers and A t mechanic:Sin government employ. Mr. SHltttlitArf moved to amend by in : [! sterling a•provise that unless otherwise pro. V vided by law the rate of wages paid by the United States shall be the current rate for g . the sane labor for the same time at the place 4 of employment. • After 'discussion the amendment was re jeeted-16 to 21. • t • Yeas—Messrs. Cattell, Corbett. Davis, Edmunds, Ferry, Fessenden, Howard, .`l - : Morgan, Morrill, (Me.)'Morrill, (Vt.) Pat terson, M. H.) Ross, Sherman, Sumner, • Van Winkle, and. Williams. Nays—Messrs. Buckalew, Cole, Conk= t+ ling Conness , Cragin, Di xon, Doolittle; Marian, Hendricks, Johnson, Morton, Mo tt Donalti,'Meet, Nye, Patterson, (Tenn.) Pomeroy; Ramsay, Stewart, Tipton, Wade ,-, and The bill passed-2C.'to 11. Yeas—M.esars. Buckalew, Chandler, Cole, Cragin, Dixon-, Doolittle, [ Fowler, Harlan, Hendricks, Howard, McCreery, McDonald, Morton, Nye, Patterson, (N. H.) Patterson. (Tenn.)_RamseY, Ross, Stewart. jt Thayer, Tipton, Wade, Will' • ms,.Wilson. • Yates. :Nays—Messrs. Corbett, Davis, Edmunds, • fl Ferry, Fessenden, Morgan, Morrill, (Vt.) Ramsey, Sherman, Sumner, Van Winkle. . ; The special order, the legislative appro priation bill, was taken up, the question 4 .* 0 .il being on the amendment by. the Commit . tee onAppropriations to the House bill. The amendment - appropriating twenty • : .V; thousand .dollars for. the - Department of Bdueation was agreed - to: Several minor . • - 2 ,1 f, amendments were also agreed to. Mr. SHERI.:N, from the Committee on -• • 14: Irinance-,...tt partelL;afr.libiendment Increas ing the appropriation for salaries , and ex -4.. , i t peruses of internal-Revenne administration, ti from Bimini:lllmm to eight millions, which ,41 was agreed to. Also,, amendments, increasing incidental appropriation fur Secretary • of: the , Treas : ury's office to one hundred thousand, and appropriating:one bundred and fifty , thous , land fettemptirary clerks in the 'Treasury Department. The former was agreed to. ;,P The latter:occasioned debate until adjourn • xnent,' which, on account of Senator Hen derson's weti . ding, was ordered to 2 o•?clock. •;• • • - HOUSE - OF REPRESENTATIVES. The !SPEAKER presented a' message from the President, with' . a report of the . Secretary of Slate relative to the cases of . Warren and Coate's; sentenced to penal imprisonment_ in England. Referred. Mr. SCHOFIEJM reported - from the Conaxiiitt e ee , etrErectione , that the creden I • e ~.• •f, tiats'ofticArkansas Representatives were 1.,' in proper form, with a resolution directing 'll the administration of the oath of office. : I ) Mr. BROOKS presented a protest. •„ ....Si,' The resolution was adopted-101 against 27—and the members were sworn. .- t The protest presented .by Mr. BROOKS, ' ' s '`' ' 7 ' - ' ' h3taigifed by all the Democratic mem - . ~ b' .i'whic ~ - - hers, and is lengthy, was read. It con 'l; ''. , the people from the free States, in behalf of ..ri our constituents earnestly and solemnly ii . protest against. this violence upon our C0n .,11 stitntlon and upon cinr'people, and do here -1 by counsel and advise all friends of popular government to submit to this force and fraud only until at the ballot-box, operat ing throughel, actions, this gteat wrong can be pat 'right: There is no-law in the land over the Constitutional law; there is no government but - constitutional govern.' ment ; and hence all bayonet-made, all Congress-imposed Constitutions are . pf , % no weight, ..-antbolity sl,r; .sanction. • save that enforced by arms, an element of power unknown to'Americans in peace, and ' never required, but as it acts in and under the supreme civil law, the,Unistitution and. • statnter enacted In pursuance thereof. We • protestithei, in behalf of the free people of the. - North7toul , West4Apilnit"the right of ' this, wain:try oligarchy, established in Ar kansas or:elseWhere in the- now igeruslis.ved state ,of ' , the, South; 14.:,ImposelsOlt, us, thronghCongress,tageler cuitpteecebther . laws te illairdUll#9l4lSvirrAFlx'Ped tartnell-c;Baresifi,;We ,fieltetit, going lritttthePrelterelt . LOOpertneraMptif-military dictators and negroes in the administration or this .Gfovernment. We demand in the name of the Fathers ,of the 'Constitution and for the sake of poiterity, not its recon . struction, bat the - restoration of , that sacred 'instrument which has been 'to ali of ns a fire pillar froml7B7 onto its present isier throw. And in, all solemnity, before God andliiita;:tinder- a - fulf sense of the respon ssibility.of all we utter, we do hereby fix our /mamas to this pretest:slimiest the admisidon ottbese three personfelahning to be roam-' bersel Congress from Arkansas." .- - The Haase we it into Committee of the Whole on the tax bill. , ' • _ '• - Mr. IHARDING'S amendment,' o ffered yesterday, was rejected., ~, s, ;-Nolimandmeite were ` made -So -section eleventh, which prohibits distillation - in breweries or sugar .refineries._, Seetkin twelfth ' was emended by making , the tax_on registered distilleries, on mash ' big and fermenting capacity, as follows: ! ' Oruthe first twenty bushels of grain or six - -ty gallons of molasses or less in. Arrenty four hours, two dollars for every" Similar excess of that amount. ; On motto' of Mr: SCHENCK, the COrn s mittee rose, and the House ordered all de bate on the bill 'closed down to - section . forty-Mt: .7., ..,-:. . , 4 ,...- .1? The House again went into Committee. 1- Motions to strike out the twenty-ninth ,and thirty-third sectlosxwere'relected. I : ,Noumendments other thait verbal', were made to `sections froa twelfth to forty. _ sixth, all relating to distillation:: mr. 'LOGAN, - from the'•Coriunittee on 1 Ways'and Means, offered three:bow- sec tions, to.come after lecithin • forty-sixth: the lira providing for the appointment by the Secretary of the Treasury, on the recom 'mendation of the Commissioner of Inter rad Revenue, of one officer for each United ewes Judicial District, to be called a Sn- ME IS ■ ..11.tZ. ' . ir 3 kaa=+ (O - t) ,t 4 • V t.St.. • • ( . 4 S: `• ~. t;~.; EN UM pervisor of ; Internal.R,evenne on distilled spirits and tobacco;' the second directing that. no ,general or special agent of the, ' Treasury Department, in connection - with the Internal Bayonne er.lept as : provided for by thlit act, shall be appointed by the Commisbloner, employes or retained in office; and the third declaring that no As sassor shall lat anthorirkd to' enter - any dia. - frict than the one for which he &AS been appointed for the'pnrpose of exercising an Ater etplimalien the' second' and third: sections were agreed to. Mr. KOONTZ moved to amend the forty-- toventh section by providing that the oom peaeation', of internal revenue stori3keep ers be 'paid h'Y the United Stites Airreed to. At Mr. JUDD'S suggestion the amend ment offered to the first section of the bill, which.wasieft tindisposed of,-was taken np. It was modified to read as follows and adopted t' • • , Add to the requirement of the payment of fifty cents taxes on every 'gallon by the distiller, owner or any person having pos session thereof the words "before removsl from the distillery warehouse." This al- lows no exceptions. BOUTWELL offered arCarnendtiaent to the forty-ninth section, providing that the business of distilling alcohol and spirit uous liquors for exportation may be an thorized. i:oy the-Secretary of the Treasury on application of distillers, and that distil leries not so authorized shall not distil for export. After discussion, and without action, the Committee took.a recess..:, EVENING SESSION. The House in Committee of Abe Whole resumed 'the consideration of the tax bill. Mr. LOGAN offered a siibititute for Mr. Boutwell's amendment, allowing a draw back on spirits. On a division no quorum voted, and the Committee rising, there was a call of the House and absentees were brought in. A quorum being obtained after nearly an an hour's delay, the Committee of the 'Whole resumed the: consideration of the Mr. LOGAN advocated his amendment. Mr. SCHENCK opposed it. The former, at the suggestion of Mr. Allison, modifying the arneridinent'sothat the amount of draw back shall not exceed fifty cents per gal lon, it was then adopted-53 to 46. t The,questionrecurringon Mr. Boutwell's amendment as amended by Mr. Legan: Mr. BROOMALL proposed to amend by providing the drawback shall not exceed the actual tax Rejected. Mr. INGERSOLL.. moved to amend by adding to the tallovranee 'of drawback the interest on the, amount of .tax paid. This was lost, find 'Mr. Boutwell's amendment was rejected. On Motion of Mr. LOGAN, the fortjAiinth section, regulating. the exportation of dis tilled spirits, was struck out. The fiftieth section, authorizing bonded warehouses at ports of entry being read, Mr. PRICE moved an amendment, provid ing that no whiskey shall be removed froni the place of distillation until the;tax. r has been paid: _ , Without action the. Cougaittectrose.` - The'SP.Sltterteyeral. e. 5 .E ecm tive coutihunications. - - The SPEAKER stated he had decided the Arkansas members should receive nay from the 13th of March, the day of their 'election; but as they'clalm pay from the be ginning of Ccingrese, he would refer the matter to the Judiciary .Committee.. Mr. BUTLER inteothiced d joint resolu tion relating to fisheries. Referred to Naval j Adjeurnedi . . International Convention' of the Young _ Men's Misttau Asseehition. (By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Garette•l DETROIT, June 24.—The thirteenth an nual International Convention of the Young Men's Christian Association convened here this afternoon. The Convention was called to order byH. Thane Miller, of Cincinnati, President of the last Convention. F. H. Smith, of Washington, was chosen tempo rary Secretary. The exercises began try reading the IbOth Ptialm by Rey. Mr.-Alli son, of Michigan, followed by Inver by Rev. Patterson, of Chicago,. - • A-Committee on Permanent Organisation, composed of one delegi4e trom each-State and one from 1 , 101% Scotia, was appointed. The rules .of the last Convention were adopted. - The clergymen of this city were invited to sit as corresponding members, as were also the members of the Association not delegates. - _ H. Thane Miller, of Cincinnati, was unan imously elected President, and R. R. Mc- Sauey, New York; O. O. Howard, Washington; B. Z. Mcxxiy, Chicago; Prof. Northnp Connecticut; P. B. Simmons, Pennsylininla; Iron. ChfuledYclinig, Prince FJWard's bland; F,.D.,Tayler, Michigan, and Dr..Jas. CarlisiToronto, were chosen, VicePititlidennu P. H. Smith, Washington; H. C. Pollard, Pennsylvania; IF. ,C, Skiff ; Minnesota, and , 3. C. 'Mclntosh; Secrets - The delegates were welcomed on behalf of the citizens'by Mayor Wl2eaton, and by Dr. Duffield on behalf of the churches of the city. Responses on behalf of the dele 'gates were made by President Miller and General Howard. So far about seven hun dred delegated have arrived. More are expected. Much interest is manifested. (Sir Telegraph to the rittstrnigh Gazette) NEW YORK. June 14.—The eighth animal re-union of the Alumni Aioiocliitiorief Theological Seminary was celebrateu Ato - day at the ARtor House, and was attended by thirteen of the leading clergymen of the Itigh Church branch of the Episcopal Church. Addresses were 'delivered : ,by Bishop Potter, Revs. Dix, Stubbs and others. Forty thousand tons Scrantoncoat "were fold at auctionet $3,67%®4,72% per ton. Prices are about-the-same as lastrinonth: The boat race between ,Tyler, tlfßOston, and Brown, of Portland, to have occurred to•day, was postponed on account lof high wind and rough water. The steamer Bavalu, Acorn ,Poutbanapton, has arrived. , • Warrants were issued to-day fit the arrest of-ex-Alderman Mcßile6, one Mcln tire and others, for Alleged concern in, the Shelby College lleutticky Lottery,'the main charge being the swindling- of Adam Ra fter to the mount Of $20,000. Idefitien has absconded: The others have been ar rested and committed for examination. Horatio SoymOur will address the De'. mocracy pf t h is pity to-morrpr ;v(004 on the political issues of th 6 day 6 • [l3frtktilipli to the PittabailbsGuette.3 Orria.ww, June, 24.—A. dispatch received from the' Colonial Office, in reply to the Nova Scotian aPpnal. i memnrial f repreeents the union as an fdiperial as well as Priiv f ri= policy, And relies on- the Joys* of Nova Sc otia to support it. gen- Guileld 1 4-70 111111 gittat titi b refeiriisa aiglivitisbuisbiiiiseiie: , • .• CLEvErawn, June 24.—Gen. J. S. Gar field, Congressman elect from the Nine teenth District, was again nominated by acclamation from the same District to-day. - - • • New York City Matters. Cana&lati Doin!Won. ;~,~... , 4 1: " -(101"'t y . 41 ' At 4: t 1 Vt. 'if:3 EEG .~ MEP =NV, e t s PITTSIU49II:( THURSDAY: JUNE -25, SECOND 11111111. V01:1/1 O'CIAWIN. A. M. THE CAPITAL. ilFitions—The . erman—Treas tqi- E -y ents-- kg llour Bill ,--titateol-lianas--Omiiibus Bill. Eli) Telegraph to the Pittaburgh Gazette.) ;WASinillittacti . ,lune 24, 1868. NOMINATIONS. The President IvilinOmlnated - Francis R. Webb, of Massachusetts, Consul at Zanzi bar, and'Perry Fuller, of Kansas, Commis sioner of Internal Revenue. 4TREVICITB OF THr. MUM The estimate sent by General Sehofield, Secretary of War, - to the Committee on Mil itary Affairs, shows that by expiration of terra of service the army will, on the first of January, 1869, be reduced to 29,667 men, and on the that of July to 17,159. SXPATIIIATIGN BIGHTS. The Pregident sent to the House to-day a . meSsage covering a letter by Secretary 'Seward to Benjamin Moran, in charge of our legation at London, enclosing a cop y of the resolution passed by the House relit- tive to the case of Warren and Costello,- sentenced in Great Britain for words and acts spoken and done in this country, and calling his attention to the fact that a bill. had passed the House and is now engaging the attention of the Senate, the effect of which, should it become _a law, will be to require the President to make reprisals in case of judicial denial' in Britain to nat uralized Americans of the rights which are conceded to native American citizens. Mo ran is instructed to read the communica tion to the British Minister of. Foreign Af fairs. ENCOURAGING FROM KANSAS. Col. Smoot, who recently surveyed the Osage Indian lands, has arrived from an extensive tour in Kansas. Ile reports the Indiana slong its frontier quiet`and peace able. The crops in Kansas are reported the belt ever known. ' Corn and wheat are par ticularly fine. The expected average is thirty bushel., •to the acre throughout the State. An estimate from ahonipetent source places the immigration to Kansas the pres ent yer,at, one hUrslreilttiblisand. TREASURY PAYMENTS. There will be paid out`of the Treasury on i the let of July about thirty-five millions in coin, seven millions of which is the prin., cipal of the loan of 1844 and the balance `is interest of &20 and six per cent. bonds of, 18V. As usual at the close of the fiscal year, no' public.debt statement wilibe issued. trbeeonttitililorli Malt of .ten days al lowed.the President to consider the Omni:. bus Southern States admission bill expires • to.morrciw,-when - s veto may be - eipected, or the bill becomes a law by default. = • :A. dispatch has been received from G. Sherman, who has arrived at St. Louis froml New Mexico, where he, ,with Col.,Tappan,/ has been etiperintendlng the removal of the' Navajos Indians further South. rnori.crion OP FpiRSIMEN. The Senate Foreign ommittee have deJ, aided to report against the House bill au thorizing the President to send a war ves-1,• sel to the Gulf of St. Lawrence to protect the intereate of Americanfishermen: FREEDMEN'S BUREAU. The bill submitted tci the Senate to.dir ki\ for the discontinuance of the Freedmen" Bureau after the first of January next, was prepared by 111 r. Eliot, Chairman of .the House Committee on Freedmen Affairs. • L,J. ATTORNEY GENERAL 2tOMIN AT lON The nomination of 51r. Everts for At tiCrney General has been postponed till Saturday by the-Senate Judiciary Commit- tee. EIGHT HOGE LAW.- , The eight hour setibr laborers, workmen and mechanics employeo, by the goyern 'mot, only requires the President's signa ture to become a law. • TREATY APPROVED The Senate has recently approved a Con sular Convention and an extradition treaty with Italy. California Items. (By Welegzapb to the PlitsburSh Gazette.l SAN FRANCISCO, June 24.—The U. S. flag ship FeDIICOIII, AdMirsdThatcher,iiro . ceeds to Victoria. V. 1.,'t0-day. The ad miral will confer with the commander of the Saulestown, now lying in Flag nituanx harbor, on the affairs of Alaska. The dis position ,of the -Indians and their attitude towards the new white population makes it a consideration whether the presence of a War vessel on that coast, and even a fort or two, is not necessary for the safety of trsdara. Minute guns were: fired to-day from the Governmentyessels in the harbor in honor to the memory of Ex-President Buchanan. Itie:State tide land .Commissioners are preparing for the survey of the San Fran cisco front:. The opirdop,ufethErhommercial class Is ganerallynposed_tonny material extension-into the Bay, Parepo Roan had swarm reception froin„ l the rans/cianft - oflthS city litstrdght. A verylarge`ooncourse 4if-"rejgdif heard the double serenade given her. Thpirutaßill,-a leading broker,:and well known Republican politician, ,dlcd last c.F,; . • , Masonic • , tits Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Eissutle,l , Ellatiepiel;P; Juno 24. -- The grand.:hiasoni& celobiration tO•daY was a complete success. Puldlo MA privets buildings were deooteted'aiid the 4py served as a general holiday. The proces sion of Masons and Knights Templar was overe itillejeof64PolUM.ft. IboUt 2,500 of the Order. The oration was , delivered by Rey. Win. R. Alger, of Boston. Alleged Fillibusters Discharged. (By Tetegrspb to the PitteburghOesette.l I N11111 1 08L11)&4 3"titte' , 9l:;- I The'slapixned fillibustering expedition proves a mistaki. The prisonem were brought before Com missioner Woller on an affidavit of the Idex;. -ioan Consuirbut he not bedurterpossession of sufficient roost ;Were discharged. They allege ihev were employed to •work on a railroad in Middol:o3. ze. A s l~ew~epa~ot :' i c sed. ,Telogromp tithe Pittsburgh (setts. '; t3BLUA, 3Une 21.—The Tadeeloosa :Monitor' was suppressed yesterdaN'Under orders tufAlenerati , Sheillardf fel% alleged violation of general order No. 51. Mr. n dolph, its editor. 'has avoided arrest, and will proceed at once to Washington and lay the facts before the President and General Grant. SESEMIII .airJLZfl...4 , .;,1 5 ~~~ rr,'"A" of. 5 . t0 s itet: EITIC Thanksgiving Day , in, Great Bri tain—Allocutions by the Pop I:!epasationt Warms for the Celebrations of th: Reforma - tkon-7.l!!entrality i eular from • . EBY Tel egsalibpil),4 gitt.burgh Gazekte.3 , . Lormelf, , 24.4..Smidav next has been aPpointeif as a daY of Thanksgiving throughout e Great Britain for the success of Abiesiffian . eipedition. -SOUTHAMPTON, June 24.—The United States squattron,--under conftnand of Ad miral Farragut, has arrived off Cowes. The Unit 94 Sta,tesatsteamer Cfmandaigua is ex pected hourly from Lisbon to join the fleet. Nplv CAsTLE.:UroN:TYNE, June 24.—The Northumberlarid plate was won byCaptain Gray's colt, -Fortunis, Us^ 17altigettribeating Johnston's- Tyndale, second, ' and Mr. Bowes geldinct Torah= by Eataplan; 3d., Nine started. LoNDON, June 24.—1 t is reported-that the' Italian government, has issued a circular no • te to its representatives abroad, announc ing that Italy will remain strictly neutral in the event . of a war between France and Prussia. , • -Lor4norr, Jane 24.—The text of the Papal .Allocutioa „on the State, of Religion in Aus tria has' beengead. 'Th Pope,defalates that the Coneordat should have been regarded by Austria as perpetail In effect, and he warm all persons who , approve of thelaws recently passed.by.theßelchsrath concern ing the press, religious toleration, civil martutgo - and publio .edtmatiOn, " to beware oh the pains and'penalties' e ttached_to Ist - tons of the sacred rights of the Church. On the occa siqn of,the delivery of this Allo cution 'the Pope also announced be had granted general pardon -and amnesty to those'rtho invaded the Stab* of tbe Church last year; with a few specified exceptions. • , Wonms. Stine: ; 21.---Iratensive prepara tions are being made 'for the forthcoming - celebration tif the _ Beforination. Theprin7 . cipal streets, squares. and historic -places are to.e decorated with fiagfiand triumphal arches. All the Protestant denominations unite in the celebration. Crowds of vial-. tors from every part of _Slermapy, are pour- Irit„into the - eity,-"rand •ti. great- number of foreigners, the majority of whom are Amer icans, arrive by, every train., The Roniark exiles: at - Rcimaniqiie have sent their On grat Anthills to the managers of, the festival. AUSTRIA. 113 N ti A,June 24.—The Reie heraih, has act... ickurned untfl • ttiii.ll.tet ONO' Imitter Ton puesjelanauted time. - :Members - that the tbreata Of thal3latioris would not hinder' • the rigid enforeementhy. the: Government of the law in regard,to confessional. i , .. ." ..SPAIN. - ' - ''' ' - MADRID ..Iline.'23.—Alver Rubicon as taken- pos;eision of the Ministry' of he Colonies and made an address to his snbot dinates in which he urged them to devote all then energies to the formation of the commerce and prosperity of the colonies of Spain. t ' , FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Lomaorr, Juno 24.—Evenittp.—Consolvt 94%; Money, 04%; Account Bonds, 73:X; Illinois, 1015; Erie 453 4 '. FRAN xvor.r, June 24.—Evening.- 7 -11onds, 77%®78. • I,tvEnroot„ June 2.4.—Cotton irregular and rather more active; sales of 9,ooopieces off fraction uplands at 11%a11%,‘c; Orleans at Breadstuffs quiet. Provisions Rteady. Turpentine, 28s. Refuted Petrol eum quiet. Soirits advaileed to Ws. Su -I;ar, 265, to arrive. Linseed 011,825. Other e~prkets unchanged. ' AjiTWELtr, June 24.—Petroleum quiet. PitbhurglO• Steamboat •Captain Charged With liesinchle—Editoriat Esti/aren't-ix. (By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh uazette.•:, - Sr. Loins, Infie 24. - -LCaptaie W. B. DePti l aldson, of the steamer great Republic, was found gtilityl-o-day by a- Oironer's jury of killing a negro named Henry Henderson, about, one o'clock this morning on board the steamer Great Republic. From the ev idence it seems .Henderson, the, texas ten der. was :put. in icons between Memphis and Cairo for mutinous conduct and con fined in the baggage-room. -Another boy, I named Mwrence • Glover, was also ironed • and confined for refusing to scrub when or dered to do so:by the steward. On the ar rival of the boat at the levee a little after midnight, • Captain Donaldson went to the baggage-room drunk, with'a pistol in each' hand, and after sorno talk 'with Henderson, -shot him :through the head.: Donaldson left the boat immediately afterwards, 'but did notary to escape and was arrested to: day and held for , exa mination en a charge • of • murder.' There is tome' Mystery in-• volved lathe affair, which s wW probably be cleared up at the exaudruition before the Felice Court to-morrow.„ ; - .and Wisconain EditOrial party, ere met at Alton this evening py a special committee, representing„ the city governmenti'lloard - ..0f :Trade and Mer chant's EkelliatgoitidAvelcomed in an ap propriate_ speach_by,Hathan tole, a prowl.' nent merchant ; after which the party tame . to this city, and are now quartered at-the. Sot:Ahern Hotel.; The party consists of One' hundred and twenty-three persons the' larger portion of whom represent thlleMin nesota press. , A considerable , num r, of them. Went. to the Varieties Theatre to4tight by Special invitation. To morrow there will be a more fortnid reception , and the pro i ramtrte hriftbiorerOporttid WWl* tar- Virginia kelps. to t 1 u rltisbarith Gazette.) RICIIMOND, June 24,r-Robert H. Glass, editor or the Lynchburg litpublicent — ,"has been nominateAtor :Vangregatir the !Click servativ es. p St. John , / day - maitedlebratedby a Mason ic excursion to Ashland. Gen. Stoneman was innoiut theeictirsldubde. , it`' .*+b 'iprk., L~fTotegThiti to the NEw YORK., boat mae took .place late this afternobdibtitivien4 Walter Brownn s of i pOtjand u and! hp Jo Atyler of BoWirWAbt iSM ,iiiddiat l igdiatanee two Iles, in , fl st i raigbt, ligs.,„l,t i was - WPWAY tlyhttritege 263 4 (' iebanda. iteeiz. fley releasable the Pittetatit Otelette3 MEHPIITS, June 24.—Today was eels• brated by the' 'Masonic; fraternity with' a grand pie tile at James Park. An address; was delivered by A. J. 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I .. , Is ...„\..... , .:..,:....._ z ..,..', ie", BRIEF NEWS ITEMS. , ' ' :—Sorithern Idaho is now within six days' Wive' Of San Francis:xi. *--ThDeocratic Convention at Piffle phik rn del nominated Daniel W. Fox for Mayor: , , • , . • —Weber Kimball, Second President of the Mo i rmon Church, died at Salt Lake yes ., terday - • • —The Fourth District (Philadelphia) Deirtobrats have nominated , Jas. B. Nichol- Son for Congress. —The'assessed value of property in Ne braska is 132,000,000, an' increase of 1,14,- 000. \ over last year. - • ter advices from Arizona render the probe le election of McCormack, Union delete, to Congress. Col a e latest advices from South America state t at the Spanish Pacific squadron had arrived at Rio Janeiro. , 1 —A mile trot at Rensselaer Park, Troy, N. Y. yesterday, was won by the horse Gen. herman. The prize was 12,000. • —A large number of trains , started east from It Lake last week to convey emi cant,. from' Europe to'the "Promised xtr -- tthew Vassar, of Poughkeepsie, New York, founder of Vassar College, died sud denly esterday morning, aged seventy aeven ' - • _ --T e Baltimore Democrats have sudden ly 'co e around and are advocating Judge Chasefor the Democratic Presidential nom ii biatio . —C of State Constable Jones, of Boston, has 14ued an order to subordinates to - rig • idly enforce the law against unlicensed liquor sellers. --The brick makers of 'Philadelphia have fixedthe wages for first class workmen at four dollars and, second class at three dol larsrd a half per day.. . n. Wrn. Lawrence was unanimously reno inated for 'Congress by the Republi can nvention fbr the 4th Ohio District, held at Urbana, yesterday. - -A, dispatch from Dales, Oregon, states that one block in' the prinCipal basil:less portion of Idaho City was destroyed by fire on the , night of the 18th inst. . —At Cleveland, yesterday, the base ball match, Athletics, of Philadelphia, ,versus. Forest City, of Cleveland, ,he score stood 85 to 11, in favor of the former. —lt is authoratively announced that both Mr. Everts and Mr. Groesbeck have finally declined Cabinet apii(iintments from their late client in'the impeachment trial. -- -The Democracy-'of Philadelphia have nominated Samuel Randall for. Congress is the Fiist DiAtrlct, Thomas B. Florence in the Second District, and John Mei% in' the Third District. . : .. • • , ' •••48., call is to be published, in a fe w days, fora convention of the leading represerda tivt%s of the Fenian Brotherhood to meet in Ne • York city on the Fourth of 'July at the office of Theirs . • • .. •The haat lii_lll,aLmak = autall4igii4 ___ rir•bdr""" 4- . Co thelfsehuti r*,,lerPrincetort Co ege, suited in a l viet,ory for _the ,Harvard: Club; - by ti score of seventeen to sixteen. • =-Govorner Stevenson, of Kentneky,Jeft for Now York yesterday for the purpose of oonclddieg arrangemeffis. fbr- redeeming 6740.000 of Kentucky State bonds issued many years ago for public iMproiements. =The Detnocratic District Convention for the Fourth' Congressional District, Maine, nominated George W. Ladd, of Bangor; for Representative in Congress, and ,Ifon, Sohn B. Tratton for Presidential elector. —Statements published in' Eastern pa pers in regard. to the ravages a, grassbop pen3 in 'lowa are greatly exaggerated. Only fourteen counties are infested. Some fields are badly injured, but none entirely destroyed —The members of the Wisconsin and Minnesota Editors and Publishers Conven tion left Chicago yesterday for St. Louis. The Chicago Board , of Trade has deter ruined to give them a banquet on their re turn on Friday.. —Aleck Randolph, a freedman, ravished a nesrro woman near Bolton's depot,-Miss., Sunday. and then murdered' her. He was arrested on Monday, and that night, whilst under guard, the negroes of the.neighbor hood came up and shot him. —A terrific storm of hail, rain and wind visited what is kneown as the Neck district, in Dorchester county, Maryland, on Sun day evening last. Trees were torn up by - the roots, and the corn and wheat crops in inveral places much injured. - -2Bispatches from Madrid (Spain) an nounce that the news of the proposed me diation of the United States in the question dt JESUS behieriff•Bpain, Peru and Chili is generally accepted In official circles as the practical termination ofsthe war. . —B. 11. Payne, tried in the Criminal Court of Nashville, Tennessee; for the mur der of M. S. Allen,- seducer of his wife, was acquitted on Tuesday. The cause occupied the Court a week, and the pry was' but a short while in agreeing upon a verdict. —Joseph Ferry, of Chicopee, Mass., ar rested on Wednesday for an incendiary at-• tempt on a dwelling house in that city. last night, because a Cady, one of the occu pants of the house, had • refused his • coin= pany, attempted to commit suicide by , taking laudanum. —Joseph Bloonigart, who embezzled about $13,000 of' government funds' while employed in the Collector's office, at Louis ville was convicted a few : dayssince in the United States District. Court and yesterday .sentenced by Judge Ballard to six years' imprisonment in the penitentiary. —The Wisonisin and lowa Editorial Asso-' elation inet'on Tuesday, at Milwaukee, and a grand banquet' - Ulm` giVen •them by the citizens in i the :evening. The party, con sisting of about one hundred .and fifty edit- Fors and their ladieB; left be in excursion to Chicagwand St. Louis At raidnight. —Thomas Fitzgerald; a soldier who -was have , been hanged to-morrow,_ ;at White Plains,. W estchester county, New Yerk; for the muider‘ of :Ellen Hicks, has been respited 011.1:October gth, bv Governor Fenton, to. enable 'hie Excellencr,to. en qulreelosely, into the facts of, the case. Chtirles F. Thornton; grandiori 'of General Harrison, ex-president, committed suicide at Cleves, a few miles fr om Obtain nett,' by at _ hie throat..and , sta bbing • himself in'• the heart with 'a - pen - knife. Thornton made attempt to take his life some weeks ago, )).ut was prevented , by the interposition number of a rent working on a new drug ibtabliahffient in Philadelphia on Tuesday asked fOr cream of tartar to put in their water,. which has , an exhilarating , effect. - Instead of this; tartar 'emetic was . rain hy mistake, andien'orthe men •who cirank*ere polSonedvbut medical' id was procured et once; and the men recovers& repOitat killing Of two buil car flare, Molkinild" , anft•Artiblet; near Pert Totten,hyliultanti a feW&WO' *IMO' cOlir finned.goveraloher Indian outrages are reported near Fort Benton, On wednes day eveninglast Ordnance Sergeant Frans ker and four childre_n., at Fort Ripley, were burned to death. Mrs. Franker luui, in consequence, become's raving maniac:, ME NUMBER 151. TOPICS AND GOSSIP AT THE CAPITAL. President Johnson, received a! dispatch ~ from Jackson stating that MissMippi has gone Democratic by a large majority,. The Constitution is defeated, the people repel the reconstruction acts of Congress, and Jett Davis' State endorses lain and' his course fully. J' Mr. Everts has consented to laCceptkhe office of Attorney Genertd, and there is but little doubt that he will be confirmed. Gen. Butler is working against this. 11 - - President Johnson has had an; elaborate ' proclamation of general amnest:t drawn up by Mr. Everts, Mr. Groesbeck, udge Cur tis and Judge Cushing, which e has con sidered and will issue on the; Fourth of July. He believes it will be considered in all future time as the magna cheater of the South and a token of magnaniiiaity of 'the 'Government and the Northern finesses. ' The passage of that part of the tax pill reducing the whisky tax to fifty cents is a substantiallriumpli of the .whisky dealers' association, which was in session hete dur ing the winter,,and whose members then fruitlessly wrought with the Committee on L Ways and Means to obtain a report to the I House in iltvor of a reduction ;of theta lkto sevetitty-five cents. The CoMmittee lEti- , matelhat their views were changed by rea son of developments in the Ittitier inquis itorial investigation, especiallY with regard to the - transactions . with Wooley and 'his coadjutors. • ij • - The Senate has rejected th nomination of Hon. S. S. Cox as Minister' to Austria. • Mr: Cox, it is said, will run for Congress in the Sixth district of New York. ; The Senate agreed with the l i Preddent in - the suspension and removal tf. Anderson, Collector, and Patterson, Assessor of Inter nal ReVenue, in Yirginia, These men were , some days ago sentenced by 1 phief justice Chase for violation of the revenue law. Gen. Grant will not leave I here for St. Lords until after the final passage .of the i . Omnibus bill for the admissien of the re constructed . . States, and he gives such or ders as are needed for the military comnian den in those States. He expects to visit both the Omaha and HansaS i Pacific Rail roads, in company with Gendral Sheridan, .but he will not go beyond - the end - of the , Railroad as finished, and will probably, be gone froth Washington about four weeks. Senator Grimes is reported to be very low and not expected to recoYer.k . . . . The Arkansas admission bill , has _ been filed in the'State Department i as - the law of the land. i, . ' •,. ,IL The President has concludedto nominate Perry Fuller as Commission&of Internal ' Revenue. ' ' 11"' - The Alaska appropriation , will not be considered until Decemlber.. 1:. __.., .- , ~) Mr. Stevens denies that ho is .about to ~ prefer new chargeir against the - President before; he Dante...; . ... . - t • Mr. Eliot, ,Ohairznan of.th s-1 e - Committee On Freedinen's Affairs, has prepared a bill proicidlng ter trdisboittnatbati3O the Ertied men'ff,Bnreausin and after the Ist of Jana- Jirs , next, j*4,ing.ge : i l ig sti lAyrcise- c.iWi~eil..!%oo, - 4 0! • WS' 443,,itettufttp- 4, ...r...r - ,;.,..-+ -- -.... ~.. 0. „....._ The intelligeatcer made another .04'04 on lie.lroCtillcich.this mormrig,Saving that the feet Is becerffing peifeetly apparent that it is his Intention to remain at the head of the Treasury Department in open defiance of the 'wishes of the President , and fh - at he shonld.tender his resignation.. The article says that Mr. McCulloch intends to fallow the footsteps of Stanton and remain in office ' until theTresident makes 6. direct - rerdoval. In he [louse, en assembling, the Commit tee on Elections reported unaninicusly ; in. favor of the admission of Arkansas mem bers: Mr. Biooks entered A=writterr pro test signed by all the Democratic members, against the adMission of these representa tives. The report of the Election Cominit tee was then adopted 'by. a strictly-party vote, and the new members t.ppeared at:the bar and V*: the oath of office. ' In the Senate, the first buiariess that cable up w,as the bill making eight hours _izi-Gov ernment workshops a day's work. Mr. - Sherman proposed an amendment that the wages of laborers .and workinen should-be correspondingly reduced if the time was scut down from ten to eight hems. A num her of speeches were made both `for and against the bill. Ana it is likely tcgbe discussed during the most of the day The Senate finally , rejected Sherman's amend ment., and the original bill was passed by a majority of six votes. %), • , :. ; The Secretary of War tas sent to the Howe an , estimate from 1 e Paymaster General Of the amount required to . retiet ,deficiencies in the appropriations :.for the execution of the reconstruction acts ' to June 80th, 1889, which is 5830,57825: " • —Haytien advises of the,23d - state ; tat had ordered an exchange of priso ners at Cape Haytien; as ho Wishes' to pre vent the population'at the ;Capital from-re volting., He threatens to bombard the city , rather than let the insurgents ,get: posses sion.. He threatens the , earns' thing if any foreigners are caught introducing warlike material or,etores, - and he. has so neti9ed the foreign Consuls. It is' 'army consistsof - only seven hundred ;nierr and threq :hundred • - oyprians; ; Solnave - insults all foreigners Americana: •An English bearer of dispatches was meltreated bfhlm _and afterwards put in prison. _ Gen—,Fan belt attaeked Fort 'Alexander four. days itgb,.arid forty of his troolsiWere killed and wounded: Among,thalatter -wasLGeriefal Narcisse. Sobeave refuses; all 'Arley, apd is determined not torelinquish.. the _Zresi denoy till'compelled to. The cortiatatone of the new ,Idasonba ; temple in Philadelphia Was laid with_ipp propriate ceremonies on Wednesday, HOD. Hibbard:Naar, Grand Matter; Hon. -- 11,. A. Lamberton,,Dennty Grand Masteri:Sanniel C. Perkins,. Senior Warden, and, Charles Sohinder, Vrand Tyler, Officiating; asserted by Pastmasters, Hon. 11thirFM. John .Thompionx James A'age . aud'otliers. After the stone was laid the Grand Master delivered the oration,' and the deinOnatra tioikwas concluded at hair two o"clock. • A banquet was held in the. evening. , =Mrs. Srr o e ti Oak Tu es, esda l wi T tliof sop ..‘ lie • th d e t4 - 3 lide the s u p re the court .ef for a writ of ' habeas comet dire4hig Steinway, the pisno•fOrte produce her nAtildren, • `have been unlawfully withhela, from. Fier lay the respondent and - placed - in charge r bf a p e tty magistrate in Getnnitir..,:-Jrnigeell bed ordered the writ to ha.bisnech and the case will 'filior,tlY be brought - befote Court when singular deteloprr. exits *a ex- '-•The'Vresideilt ta again Isiirdoidlig am terfetters. foram* and:lltabals:.l7onoinba ritzpraldodio,wasuidaaced,kosrlaan fbr oikci year' in Matnefor assault and battery;Alfred Deastastne, "iitiubl, was 'aolivictid knaMagi, eaunkerfeit, mail-bagAlieroo and sentenced toAmnitenthirv, Sot Ahrpo,yeap, and Wain - 141m ex=l,fatbk-Golketal .iof , BebetaimYt4zwthOlatlat libJectsii Exe- —Toe Flouring mill Of Coekrill & Lyk ins, Platte City, Mo., was totally destroyed on Sunday morning.. woolen mill be longing to Mr. Balteriby, in the same building, was also destroyed. Total loss $20,000; no insurance. 1. :1 ECM ME ,T II RE