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Il WASHINGTON, May 1l.-In the Court o
impeachment, after secret session the Cour
adjourned.
In the House Stevens made personal OK
planation in the Alta Vela ease.
.Jenckes asked to effer resolution request
ing Prussia to recall its attache, engaged in tn,
recent duel near Baltimore Randall objected
Spalding made speech against paying th,
national debt in greenbacks.
Pike reported joint resolution from tn,
Naval Committee, requiring the President t,
send force to protect the rights of citizens il
the fishing grounds of the Gulf of st. Law
renee, which passed. e
Robinson offered resolution. which was
objected to, for expunging the Impeachment
resolution from the Journals of the House.
Highly presented memorial from the Cali
fornia Legislature, asking aid for rail and wag
on road purposes.
| Flanders introduced bill to aid the con
structien of a railroad from Walla Walla tc
| the Columbia river.
| The bill to admit Arkansas was passed under
the previous question, 110 to 30. Baker, Viii
fiams, Loan and Spalding (Radicals), voted in
the negative
The bill for the admission of South Carolna
was recommitted.
A dispatch from Florida says the Radicals
have carried the Constitution by 10000 major
ity. and the Legislature also
A dispatch from Lord Stanley to Mr. Thorn.
ton, from London, May 9th, says the Fenian
prisoners Nagle, Nugent, Leonard, Lee, and
FitzgibbOn, have been set at liberty on their
promise to return ut once to the Uuited States
They all signed an acknowledgment that they
came IN the Jacmet, aud regretted their acts
NEW York, May 1.-THE jury in the Cole
case, at Albany. could not agree They stood
six for conviction and six for acquitta
Books have been opened in this city for stock
subscriptions to the Southwest Pacific railroad.
The Heraid's special says that project is
on foot for the removal of johnson and to ar
rest aud try Gen. Lee for treason and murder
1t is expected that Grant will resent such a Vi
olaticn OF the terms of parole us personal
insult The arrest is to be backed by Wade
and other Republicans TO defeat Grants chance
for the Presidency. The plot is supposed to
have been coneocted by Butler and Stevens.
The Indians have been committing serious
depredations along the line Of the Kansas and
Pacific road Two companies of cavalry have
been sent in pursuit of the marauders.
Weston, the pedestrian, has been backed for
q FIVE thousand mile walk. from Bangor. Me-,
to ST Paul, Mimi, and back to Buffalo The
wager is for S25.000. The walk is tn be made
in 100 days, including Sundays; but Weston is
not to walk on Sundays. Weston viii leave
Bangor about the 18th of August. He must
walk 100 miles in every % consecutive hours
during the trip.
The Illinois Radical Convention have nom.
mated the following ticket: Governor, Gen j.
NJ. Palmer; Lieut.. Governor, Col. Jno Dough-
erty; for Congress, Mt large, Crn. John A. Lo-
gam Secretary of State, Edward Rummei !;
State Auditor, Gen. c. Z. Lippincott; State
Treasurer, Gen. L. n. Bates; Attorney Gen.
eral, Washington Bushnell. A resolution was
sustained condemning the policy of President
johnson, denonncing all repudiation as great
crime, and insisting upon the payment of the
national debt IN good faith to all creditors, at
home and abroad Hons. c. c. Ingersoll, s.
McCullcm. and John T. Farnsworth have been
re-nominated for Congress in their respective
districts.
The Supreme Court of Virginia has decided
that all debts contracted in Confederate money
shall be- commuted at the value of money when
tracted.
In Richmond memorial celebration took
place to-day; over $4,000 Confederate graves
were strewn with Towers.
Gen Schofeld has removed the Mayor ef
Danvie; the municipal officers Of nearly all
the towns 10 the State are now changed.
An affidavit has been filed, by one OF the late
registrars, before Com missioner Webs, to the
effect that the newly elected Republican Re-
corder, of the first district, New Orleans, was
not naturalized until after his nomination. and
that Conway. the Republican Superintendent
of Education, is not registered citizen of
Louisiana, although appearing on the ticket as
from the parish of New Orleans. The same
affidavit says that Commissioner Shannon, by
threats, attempted to intimidate the affiant
from perfUrming bis duty according 10 bis oath
An Havana dispatch says latest news from
Vera Cruz reports that revolution had taken
place in the capital, and President Jnarez was
fleeing to the Texas frontier with $7,0U0,O00
in his possession.
LONDON, Nav 10.--Barrett, the cundemned
Fenian. has been reprieved for week, for
further inquiry in his case, which excites mach
interest.
Henry Lord Brougham. Ex-Lpxd Chancellorl
of England, is dead he was in his Goth year.
He died Mt Cannes, in France; he died easily
he fell in q pleasant stupor from which he
never recovered. ,
The betrothal Of the Princess Louise to the
crown Prince of Denmark is denied.
Before the Dublin Court of Bankruptcy, i
George Francis Train was recommittcd for
further examination. He avered that be had
no property of his own, and had no control
over the property of bis wife.
The Times has official advicea from Abyssinia |
10 April 2lst. Napier expected to start with
The entire army for the Red Sen about May
18th The city Of MaCdala Ind been burned I