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CHICAGO, Aug. 22.-The National Labor
Congress has been in session four DAYS. Be-
yOnd the adoption of Constitution little has
been done The members seem unaccustomed
to parliamentary proceedings and consume
much time in talk. Nobody seems to have
well-digested ideas of what is necessary. It
was determined to-day to send delegate to
Europe to examine the systems of cooperation
and combination in vogue there, and TO endea-
vOr to prevent the Importation of foreign Ia
borers. 1t was resolved to establish national
organ, under the cooperative system. Reports
were made with relation to negro labor also
demanding legislation prohibiting convict labor.
The gamblers of New York, alarmed at the
activity of the Anti Gambling Society, have
formed a Protective Union and subscribed
funds to employ lawyers to defend parties pros
ecuted.
Western dispatches report Fort HAYS sur
rounded by Indians, Forts Reno and Phil Kear-
ney almost in a state of siege, and the roads to
Fort Phil Kearney impossible, except to large
parties, and even they are frequently attacked.
The cholera is raging at ShaWneetown, Hi
nois. Thirty cases and twenty deaths are al
ready reported. The people are said to be
fleeing In great cOnsternation
Notwithstanding the instructions sent to Gen.
eral Sickles to the effect that the Federal
Courts must not be intertered WITH Order No
10 is still in force. These facts unexplained
convey the impression that Sickles has been
guilty of contumacy and disobedience of orders;
but it is known here that the instructions have
been temporarily suspended at his request, in
order that his views may be communicated to
Washington authorities before further action.
NEW YORK, Aug. 22.-The Times special
says Grant wrote an earnest protest against
the removal of Stanton. He questions the
Presidents right to do so, giving his opinion
that the gravest reasons of public policy de-
manded that the removal should not be made
IIe demonstrated more emphatcally against
the removal of Sheridan. The President re-
piled, in his usual style, reiterating his deter
minatiOn to remove Sheridan.
The UniOnists of New Orleans feel very bit
ter at General Rosseau and say, while in that
city, that he hOb-nobbed with rebels, urged
them to resist reconstruction, and told them
Sheridan would be supplanted by somebody
who would carry out JOhnson's ideas
The T5ibuae's special says that Sheridan re-
ceived the news of his removal very coolly,
felt satisfied that he had done his duty, and re-
GREETED that his superior had found fault He
thought he had finished reconstruction in Lou
isiana, and was about to turn his attention to
Texas, but would make one more removal
that of j. Ell. Hays, Sheriff of New Orleans
General Rufus King, late Minister to Rome,
returned to-day.
The Roanoke river has risen twenty-seven
feet, flooding the low grounds and destroying
crops
s Elk President Buchanan is lying seriously i'll
at Philadelphia. Fears are entertained for
his life
The corner stone Of the Cameron Railroad
bridge over the Missouri was laid at Kansas
City, to-day, with Masonic ceremonies; over
5000 persons present. The bridge is to be of
iron, 400 feet long, with a central draw and
finished in one year.
WILMINGTON, (Del) Aug % "A call is
published for Convention on Sept 4th, for
the purpose of sending delegates to the Border
State Convention which meets in Baltimore,
Sept. 18th, to demand from Congress a guar
antee to the citizens OF all the States equal
rights and republican form of government.
ST. Louis, Aug. 23.-Gov. Butler, of Neb,
has just returned to Omaha from the Big Blue
country, and reports IL men killed there by
the Indians; "a horses stolen and 54 houses de-
strOyed. Spotted Tail, with his band, has gone
on peace mission, and will bring with him
from the war path the representative chiefs Of
the Sioux and Cheyennes to get peace from the
WAsHINGToN, Aug. 23-The rain yester-
day and night before did much damage to crops,
bridges, &c. The Rockville stage, crossing at
the ford four miles from this city, was washed
down the stream and three ladies drowned.
Six clerks in the Office of the Freedmen's
Bureau in this District were transferred to the
Department of the Mississippi.
A meeting of the Cabinet was held to-day,
but no further action was taken in rpIation to |
the removal. of District Commanders. The
President, however, expresses determination
to remove Sickles. The Inteligencer of to-day
calls on Seward to resign.
The Turkish Minister was introduced to-day
to the President by Seward.
Jeremiah Day, ex- President Of Yale College,
died last night, aged SO. m6.
A Wilmington IN. CO. dispatch says the
Radicals are alarmed lest a negro Mayor will
be elected
New York, Aug. 23.-Gen. Rosseau calls
The attention of the Tribune to its specials from
Washington, which report that he and Sted-
apaR had left New Orleans to avoid being ar
rested by Sheridan, for impeding the recon-
struction. Rosseau says he knew nothing of
such intention and does not believe it true.
The Tfi6aBG's special says, since the late ac-
ion of the President, 1etters have been recelV-
I'd by prominent Republicans from members In
liferent parts of the country which state that
,he only remedy left to insure reconstruction IS
,he impeachment of the President. Some OF
;bese1 letters are from members who opposed
at the last session. The Rmpeach,
nent Committee are busy 10 augmenelng the
eefng.
LONDON, Aug, 23.-Lt iS Tum0red that the
-roo+,, oonoludad, af the conference at SalZhurO