The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-03-25
Telegraphic Summary.

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After several long and sharp debates
and much bitter opposition, the City
Council Of St. Louis, has granted the
Iron Mountain, North Missouri and
Pacific Railroads leave to connect
their tracks on the levec. This will
enable all the roads to reach the large
elevator on the bank, and will be q
great impetus to the bulk grain
trade.
The council has also granted the
North Missouri RR, and the Madison
Ferry the right to lay track in the
northern part of the city. Under
this privilege the Ferry Co., will
transfer loaded cars across the river,
between the North Missouri h 81
Louis & Chicago Roads, and will en-
able freight on either of the roads to
reach it's destination without chang.
ing bulk.
The Chicago Journals Washing
ton special says President Grant is
quite i'll to-day, and no visitors are
admitted.
Senators Morton and Sherman are
very confident there is . majority in
the Senate favorable to the repeal of
the Tenure of Office Act. The vote,
however, will be close and it may be
that the Vice. President will be re.
quired to give q casting vote which
he will do if necessary for the re-
peal.
P. Bigelow Lawrence, son Of Amos
Lawrence, and late Consul General
to Italy, died yesterday, at Washing
ton.
The N. Y. Tribune strenuously op-
poses the repeal Of the tenure of of.
fee law, and says:
"The Senate is in session, ready
and willing to act upon any nomina
ton the President sees fit to make,
and certain to confirm atleast ninety
nine In every hundred until one is
rejected. We see no reason for re-
peal or suspension of the tenure Of
office act"
A young German, in Newark, be-
ing refused by the girl he loved, shot
her at her residence on Sunday, kill
ing her almost instantly, and with
the same pistol put an end to his
own existence.
A Herald dispatch says:
The delay in the nomination of a
Minister to England, vice Reverdy
johnson, is attributed to the fact that
the President has been carefully con-
sidering what policy would be best
to pursue in regard to the Alabama
claims. He has resolved to adopt a
very decisive course with England,
and the amount of his diplomacy
will be simply the sending of bill
to the British Government asking the
payment for depredations of pirate
ships on American commerce. Caleb
Gushing is among those now men
toned as likely to be honored with
the appointment to England.
The same dispatch says if the re.
peal of the tenure of office bill comes
to vote and fails, many Senators
now favoring repeal will vote the
next best thing, four years suspen.
sion.
It is stated Mr.. Nye and the South.
ern members have agreed to vote
against repeal, therefore, no doub,
exists that repeal will be defeated.
President Grant is very much in
censed at the conduct of some sena.
tors, and is determined not to make
any further appointments should the
civil tenure restraint be kept owe,
him.
General Schmidt has been killed in
slirmish near Trinidad, Cuba.
S.slnave has been badly cleaned out
in llaytl, loosing 1000 men and s can
mons.
A Washington special says:
The debate in the Republican Sen
atorial caucus on the tenure of Office
bill showed that while there was 9
general design to relieve the Presi
dent OF embarrassment, there was 9
decided majority opposed to repeal
1t was finally substantially agreed
by all present that the law excluding
the obnoxious provisions must be
carried through the Senate and prob
!, ably through the House.
The proposition notifications arc
that the act shall not apply in any
way to members of the Cabinet, and
the President shall not DO required
to make out case on such persons
removed, that is, he may during the
session of the Senate propose remov
ais and appointment at pleasure, ano
leave the Senate to make such exam
NATION as it pleases. While during
vacation he may suspend and appoint
at pleasure, and submit his action K
the Senate within twenty days after
reassembling.
| Special from the Plains says tina,
Custer and his men are not captured
as much as they werein the dispatch
es the other day.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylva
mia, refused Twitcbell's application
for writ of error yesterday, SO tina,
he must be hung.