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Dates to July %.


WASHINGTON, July 25. - Among the. ap-
pointments confirmed by the Senate are the
following: W.. Cullen Supt Indian Affairs
for Idaho; II. M, Watts of Pa, Minister to
Austria; Silas Axtell, Assessor of Internal
Revenue Sd District of California
The President nominated Alex. Cummings
Collector of Internal Revenue; j. NJ johnson
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury: General
Rosecrans Minister to Mexico; and Holland
Smith Postmaster for San Francisco Smith
was confirmed by the Senate s" '' ms
The bill for the protection of the rights of
American citizens abroad with an amendment
that in case of their imprisonment by any for
elgn government, and refusal to surrender
that the President is to use any means, not
amounting to actual war, to effect their release,
was passed, 80 to 5. -. -,..., r, t...
Henderson made personal explanation, in
which he severely denounced Buffers report
on behalf the impeachment Managers with re-
gard to the Senators ON impeachment. He
said the other six members of the Committee
had nothing to do with the report He de-
nOunced the investigation as petty work of
malice and calulnny, and disgraceful to it's
author and dsgraceful to Congress. He said
Butler had suppressed an important portion of
the testimony, and had distorted and perverted
facts for malicious purposes
Sherman made report from the Committee
of Conference on the funding bill, which was
cOncurred in. This report authorizes the is-
sue OF bonds running thirty or forty years of
the denomination of hundred dollars or the
multples of that sum- bearing interest on coin
at the rate Of four and Il half per cent. and
! thirty years bonds at four per cent. The forty
year bonds are to be exempt from all taxation
1t is said that the bonds will be exclusively
used for the redemption of five-twenties. Sec
tion two appropriates, from the duties on iun-
ports hundred and thrty-fve millions annu-
ally to be applied to the payment of the inter
est and the reduction of the principal of the
principal OF the debt. The 81 srction prohib-
its the payment of any commission for negvti-
ating the sale of these bonds
WASHINGTON, July 27.-The Senate held a
Sunday evening session. The lobbies were
crowded with office seekers, looking for con-
| firmatiOn.
Warner. Senator elect from Alabama was
sworn in
| In the House, the Speaker laid before that
body the Presidents veto of the freedmen's
! bureau bill. The message having been read,
! the bill was passed over the veto by l15 against
23, and the Speaker declared it law.
| The Senate bill to extend the Custom lava
over Alaska was amended and passed.
! J. w Clife, G. H. Prince, w. P Edwards
aud Samuel T. Grove, Representatives from
Georgia. were sworn in and took their seats
! Hamilton, of Florida, offered a resolution
| for the Impeachment of the President; re-
fcrrcd TO the Judiciary Committee.
BALTIMORE, July 25.-The losses by the
food amounts to several millions of dollars.
At Ellicott city the destruction of life. and
property was great. Thirty houses We're swept
away, some containing whole families, who
were also carried away with the current and
drowned. The loss OF lite in Baltimore city is
not known to exceed six, as only that number
OF bodies have been found, but there is no
doubt that some have been swept into the river.
1hirty-sevcn are reported killed ut Ellicott's
mills. The river is jainmed with the wrecks
of thirty houses, factory fixtures, and every
species of property
LONDON, July 26-The following has been
received from Rome: The police have DIS
covered mine to blow up the tortifications on
Mount Aventine. Two sentinels were recently
attacked IN the night and wounded. The po-
lice seized 4 quantity OF red and black Carl
baldi shirts. The licenses have been with
drawn from all the wine shops in the Roman
! Campagna.
Advices from Belgrade state that the Sultun
of Turkey has confirmed the succession OF
Milan to the sovereignty of !Seryia- -s
/ BALTIMORE, July % Tho City Council has
voted $50 900 for the relief of the sufferers by
the flood. Many families are entirely desti-
tute aud homeless. saa4s " tsa sg g.
Writs on two suits from the Superior Court;
were served on Gen. Butler as he passed
through Baltimore last evening. One for false
imprisonment by Wooey, who lays the dam.
ages at hundred thousand, and the other by
Kimberly Bros, of Baltimore, to recover thir
teen thousand, alleged to have been extracted
by Butler when commanding Fortress Monroe
NASHVILLE, July 27.--Gov. Brownlow states
in his Message that the menacing of the peacs
of the State by armed bands of marauders was
his reason for convening the Legislature, and
he desires necessary authority to call out the
militia. .s Is. as sa.,... ss.s sd Is aai2aass55t
Orders have been issued from Washington
Ito reorganize the military districts. Gen
Crook has been assigned TO the Department OF
the Columbia in place of Rossoau. q 9-
| WAsHuNGroN. July 29--The Senate has
taken 4 recess until the third Monday in Sep.
tember p ee'D !" "'''D' =
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