The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1868-02-09
Latest News by telegraph.

WAsHNGToN February 5.-The judiciary
Committee of the Senate reports unfavorably
ON the Bouligny land claim.
The Presideht has nominated F. w. Scott, OF
Tennesseeo oas Consul at Matnmoros.
Eleven more set speeches have been made on
The first mortgage bonds of the Missouri
Pacific Railroad have advanced from 70 to par.
The Reconstraction Committee will report
fsyOrably OH the bill removing Pattons dis
abilities. They also discussed the recent cor
resporlence between the President and Grant,
but deferred action:
The. Senate has confirmed Gideon II. Hollis
ter, of Connecticut, minister resident and con-
sui general to Hayti.
Internal revenue receipts to-day 81, ,OOO
Howard has issued circular that the
officers undcrsthe rank of major who have been
mustered out of the service but retained-in the
bureau be paid $50 per month
King Of Prussia. ON receiving the New Italian
minister at Berlin, congratulated him on his
appointment as new pledge Of fps peace; ~
ordered fe deMm to be sung throughout Italy
| for the victory at Montana Victor Emmanuel
Gorbids it.
LoNIA,N, February 5.-The Times says the
arrest of Mr.. Train WAS II mistake, but should
be distinguished from arrests of ex-Irishmen
who come to Ireland for treasonable purposes.
: John Bright pleaded the wrongs of Ireland at
a meeting in Birmingham.
No marine disasters reported from the storm
| Of the LIST inst
4 gate Of the Cork prison was blown up yes
ter,iay, and the telegraph wires leading out of
| the city cut.,The activity of-the police pre-
| vented further demonstration.
| The advance of the Abyssinian expedition
haa reached AntalO.
The government candidate for the corps
legislatif has been returned from Lille, France.
! Garibaldi writes Admiral Farragnt, enthu-
| siastically congratnlating the United States on
encouraging Italian national aspirations by the
presence of their fleet. An Italian loan is to lie
negotiated in London.
WAsHINGroN, February 6-Senate-A memo
- Arkap
tion, asking power to remove State officers,
| stating that high ones were enemies OF the
country. Referred to the ,'ss.;eiary Committee.
| petition from Charles Schneider and $50
other -colored citizens of North Carolina. asking
aid to emigrate to Liberia, was reterred t0the
Finance Committee. ---.=------zz-
I GERS to Havana to represent the United States
At the Maritime Exhibition passed.
| Two finance bills were reported, aud the
Senate adjourned
! Hoase-The bill in relation to the rights of
American citizens abroad was resumed.
An army appropriation bill, .nsking for 1913,
ensued developed the fact that the total appro
priations for the fiscal year of 1869 is about
| $276 0OO, 600 for soldiers and sailors.
The Military Academy appropriation was con-
sidered. An amendment that no portion be
| paid to any cadet appointed for State of
which the cadet is not a resident, was defeated
The amendment cOnfining pay to white cadets
was defeated and the bill passed.
The civil appropriation bill was resumed
| The amount reported by the committee was
$17 ,25O,O06. Without action, the House ad-
journed.
The Presidents reply to Grants letter, of the
3D. was transmitted to Grant to-day. Its pub
lication is expected in u few days.
The PaymHster GguerafB circular fixes com
I mutations of rations at twenty cents. =
Secretary McCulloch was painfully injured
to-day by a fall Oh the ley street
IA special dispatch =ksw-f0ik ttortd,
| from Montgomery, considers the defeat OF the
constitution certain i says the heaviest part
of the vote has been polled, but the same ratio
| for the two remaining days would defeat the
| consultation by 26, 900 votes
There is to be-n meeting of Grant, Sherman,
Thomas, and other distinguished military men,
at Cincinnati to arrange the. ARMY OF the
The new British Minister will be presented
tomorrow. Those who anticipate any allusion
to the Alabama claims in the respective ad-
! dresses will be disappointed, only the usual
Official compliments will be exchanged.
wAs1ItSaroN, February 7-Senate:-General
business uInnlportant. J
that ten days after its passage no genera! OF
special agent of>the\ Presidents departments
bureaus, OF branches, unless authorized by stat
utes specifying duty and compensation, shall
bs appointed, commissioned, OF employed or
Il continued i'll office except five special agents of
the State department, revenue agents or in
spectors of internal revenues authorized by acts
of March ), 1868 June 13, 1864; March
1865; or any other general or special
agent commissioned and compensated by law,
shall continue te'i from the passaBe "a
act when the President shall appoint and the
Senate shall confirm successors.
II The President may appoint, with consent OF
the Senate, twenty-five general or special
agents for the Treasury Department. the Secre-
tary may appoint twenty-five detectives iii the
old manner. The Postmaster General may APP
point certain route agents and twenty five
special agents.
The bill authorizing bridge over the Mis-
sissippi River ut Lacrosse passed.
After executive session, the Senate adjourned.
Honse-Several members made personal eN-
plantations, when the House went into Commit
tee of the Whole on the appropriation bill.
A proposition authorizing the Secretary OF
War to replace the Capitol police by a detail OF
soldiers, was ruled out of order
In considering the appropriation bill discus
sion was stormy, and without action the House
zadjourned. qr-
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