Weekly Trinity journal., 1867-01-05
summary Of Eastern and CONGREGATIONAL
News to December 29tk.

Communication with the lower cities is al
right again. On Wednesday evening Mr. Ober
deener furnished us with file of the Sacramen
to Union from December oath to 2sth, inclusive
from which we are enabled to furnish the follow
ing synopsis of Eastern and Congressional news
THE iron-pated frigate Ner Ironsides, lying a
League Island, near Philadelphia, was burned or
the 10th of December. The telegraph SAYS ma
val officers very reticent about the affair, but
the burning is believed to have. been a work o.
design......ORDERs were issued by Justice Nor.
rill of New York, on the same date, for the ar.
rest of Hon. John Morrissey, Hon. Ben Wood and
other knights of the 'green cloth for lottery
sponging. g......THE Government will station mil
tary force near st. Albans, on the Vermont bor-
der, in consequence of military preparations now
being made by the Fenians under Roberts. THE
report that Chief Justice Chase would resign his
position is pronounced without foundation
IMPORTANT developments in connection with Sur
rattsand his accomplices are promised from Gov
ernment sources...... BETWEEN forty and fifty Con-
gressmen had accepted the invitation of South
ern Railroad companies to visit New Orleans du-
ring the holidays......THE newly appointed Off
GERS of Pacific coast regiments sailed on the 2lst
of last month. .....THE Congressional committee
quire Mayor Monroe to furnish the names of all
policemen on duty at the time. Eliot, Shalla-
berger and Dennison, of the committee, started
for that city on the l7th......TRouBLEsoME times
are reported on the Missouri border. A fight be-
| tween bushwhackers and citizens occurred at
Lexington on the 18th ult. Two companies of
| L. s. regulars had been sent there from Leaven-
worth. A delegation of prominent citizens of
Jackson county had promised the Governor that
all parties would unite to aid in suppressing the
outlaws. Senators Henderson and Brown had
an interview with the President in this connec-
ton and satisfied themselves that he is inclined
to interfere with Governor Fletcher......ON the
2lst of December jeff. Davis counsel were at
Washington seeking speedy trial.. SHERMAN S
mission to Mexico is reported failure, and that
officer is reported to be disgusted. He received
telegram from Washington on the 22d ult. to
let Mexico alone. Advces from Minister Camp
bell represent his inability to find the Juarez Gov
ernment THREE additional sections of over
flowed lands have been granted to each of the
cities of Marysville and Stockton ......THE indi-
cations that Albert Lee, a wealthy negro pro-
duce dealer of Georgetown, D. c., will be elect
bill pass which is probable......TH special cor
respondent of the New York Times at New Or
leans says /" the mission of General Sherman, al
though not accomplishing all expected, was by
no means failure. He has grounds for beiev-
ing that in case any fragment of Imperial power
remains in Mexico after the departure of the
French, the United States troops will be march
ed over the Rio Grande to support JuareZ......A
DISPATCH from Montreal says the Fenan prison.
ers who have been tried and discharged for want
of evidence to convict, have, as American citi-
zens, petitoned Secretary Seward to demand
damages of the British Government for depriv-
ing them of their liberty CHARLES READE, the
novelist, has commenced libel suit against the
editors of the Round LAST Christmas is
reported to have been the dullest in New York
for twenty years. .....THE Virginia Legislature is
reported to be almost unanimously opposed to
the ratification of the constitutional amendment
1.-THE President in recent interview with
Col. Wetherbee, South Carolina State Senator,
expressed the deliberate opinion that the South
ern States, through their Legislatures, should
reject the constitutional NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
reached Laramie on the 26th ult of the massa-
ere near Fort Phil. Kearney, of 90 enlisted men
Of the Cd Cavalry and lSth Infantry, under COM
mand of Brevet Col. Tetterman, Captain Brown
and Lieut. Grammond-every officer and man
being kiiled......TBE ship Ddrid Crockett arrived
| at New York on the Goth of December, in ninety
four days from San Francisco-the quickest pas
sage on recorI......IT has been ascertained that
the sale of freedmen for slight offences is being
extensively practiced in South Carolina. john
SON setting aside of Gen. Sickles order pre-
venting whipping and sales of blacks, is regard
ed as virtually returning them to bondage.....
GENERAL SAMUEL R. CURTIS, the hero of the Un-
ion victory at Pea Ridge, (Ark.), died at Coun-
Gil Bluffs Dec 26th ..... THE official vote of Mis-
souri, shows the Union majority to be 20,S59.-
The Congressional delegation stands Radical s.,
conservative, 1......THE Long Island Sound stea-
mer Commodore was wrecked during heavy gale
on the night of December 57th. Passengers all
saved...... SEVERE and extensive snow storms had
prevailed in northern New York and Canada......
ADvIcEs from prominent politicians say the Sou
thern States have resolved to reject the constitu-
tional amendment.
CoNGREssIoxAL.-The reports from Congress
are almost void of interest. In the Senate, Dec.
18th, Wade moved to rescind the RESOLUTION pro-
viding for holiday recess. in ordeE to save the
District Suffrage bill. Sumner argued that the
case could be provided against by the~Secretary
of the Senate Withholding the bill I ii after the
holidays. bill introduced in the Senate
granting lands to aid in the construction of n
railroad from Portland to Astoria, in Oregon
Congress adjourned December goth, to meet
again on the Sd of January.