The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1870-06-08
Telegraphic Summary.


The following is summary of Saturday
nights tclegraphic dispatches:
New YoRK-Cotton quiet and weak.
Sales 5000 bales. Uplands 224. Orleans
23!. Money easy. Gold dull but firm.
Observation-Disclosures to-day over a mil
lion and quarter of dollars Jno. d. Hoover
is hopclessly sick. Edwin L. Barney has
been appointed Federal Attorney for the
Western District of Texas. This evenings
STIR says the House Reconstruction Com
mittee, by a vote OF eight to seven, have
agreed to so amend the Georgia bill as to
require the election of a new State Legisla-
ture the coming Fall.
HoUsE-One hundred and twenty persons
of Louisville, KY, have petitioned Congress
for reduction of the tax on manufactured
tobacco to sixteen cents. A Senate bill
authorizing the erection of draw bridge
over the Alabama river near Selma, and
above Montgomery, was on motion of Mr.
Sheldon, taken from the Speakers table and
passed, and sent to the President.
Bill appointing an Assistant Z. S. Treas
urcr at Baltimore, passed. Tax resumed.
Schenck offered tariff amendment, stating
that he did it on it on his own responsibility,
not by order of Ways and Means Commit
tee. He stated that the total reduction of
revenue by the proposed amendment would
be over twenty millions. He estimates the
reduction OF the internal revenue at forty
millions Schenck moved the previous ques-
ton House refused second previous ques-
tion-gO to SO. He then withdrew the tax
amendment and moved the previous ques-
tion on the tax bill. Finally he renewed his
amendment and moved the previous ques
ton which was ordered. 1t was agreed
that the vote be taken on Monday. Efforts
were made to tack the funding bill to the
tax bill, when filibustering was resumed
and the House adjourned.
4 Joint resolution to increase the COM
pensation of the assistant marshalls of cen
sus-takers was considered without action. The
Indian appropriation bill was considered, the
debate being mainly upon the merits of the
Quaker system of moderate treatment.
Robertson reported to the Senate to-day
the disability bill, covering some seven
thousand citizens of eighteen States and the
District of Columbia.
PARLIAMENTARY Presbyterian Assem-
oily finally adjourned, without further i'm
portant action.
PARIs-The press and business men are
unanimous in complaints of mail irregu-
larities between France and the United
States. Bourse opened excited in view
of the reported alliance between Russia and
Egypt Many common ;nuskets and othel
war material have recently been ordered
from Brussels and New York on the Vict
Royal account A large increase in the ar.
mament at the disposal of Egypt is sud.
denly apparent. 1t is now almost certain
that the Viceroy is preparing for struggle
against the Sublime Porte, and that Russia
will lend him her powerful assistance.
MONTGOMERY, ALA.-Judge Busted, Of
the L. S. District Court, committed Reyn-
olds, the. Auditor of State, to Jail for five
days for contempt of court in refusing to
obey an injunction restraining him from
collecting two per cent tax on the gross re-
ceipts of the Southern Express Company,
which was authorized by the State revenue
law. but enioined by order of the District
Court Auaitor reynolds was also fined
$1,000, and required to refund the amount
collected from the Express company.
LoNDoN-The Shipping Gazette to day has
vigorous leading article on the extor-
tons practiced upon vessels arriving at Gu
ban ports, under the pretence of exacting
fines for evasion of custom regulations.
The Gazette invokes joint protest against
this outrage by England, and the U. S.
Commodore Ashbury, has engagnd to build
another yacht if he fails to win next time.
MADRD-The EDglishmen who we're
captured by Spanish brigands near Gibralta
some time ago, have been traced by an ennis
sary of the government. The prisoners
were in good health, and were we'll treated.
Their final release was only matter of mon
ey. The government has already commenc-
ed negotiations with the robbers but the
subject is repIete with difficulties, and it is
feared no result can be reached for weeks.