Middletown transcript., 1870-07-16

ceeded in getting a Funding bill through
both Houses, and we will now be able to
test his ability TO float bonds bearing u
lower rate of interest than is now paid by
the government. 1t provides for thou
sand millions of four per cents. $780,
900, 600 of four and a half per cents and
5000. 600, ,0C0 Of five per cents. and lin
it's the expense of their negotiation to one
half of one per cent. The foreign agency
clause has been abandoned, and the gold
banking clause, which would have defeat
ed one purpose of the Currency bill, has
also been dropped, The gold-deposit sec
tion of the House bill has been retained
in modified shape, and is now the most
Objectionable feature of the scheme.
The great National Camp Meeting COM
menccd at Darlington, near IIavre de
Grace, Md. on Tuesday last, the 18th
instant. Over thousand tents have
been erected. Seventy preachers were in
attendance on Wednesday, and the num-
bcr continually augmenting. a steam
pump had been constructed, and sixteen
baths provided in close proximity. Soda
fountains, book stores, and many other
convenienccs had been introduced.
The majority and minority reports of
the committee on education and labor up
on the charges against Gen. o. O. How
ard were subm tied aud printed in the
House OH Thursday, the 24th inst The
tirstsacquits the accused without qualfca-
ton, the second recommends that the Sec
rotary of War be directed to take meas
ures for the trial of General Howard on
the charges preferred, and also to secure
the interests of the governmet in the How
ard University.
An English countess, who made the
acquaintance of some American girls on
the Continent, is said by the Revolution
to have expressed great astonishment at
the fneness and costlncss of their under
clothes. She did not believe that the
cambrics, linen and laces of the Princess
Royal exceeded in value those worn by
our American girls.
In New York, on Tuesday, an associa-
tion of Orangcmen having undertaken to
celebrate the triumph of Protestant Eng
land over Catholic Ireland at the battle
of the Boync, they were set upon by a
body of Catholics, when a fierce fight en-
sued, resulting in the death Of three per-
sons and the wounding of many others.
The trades unions and the mechanics
and laboring people in various parts of
the country, are combining and eXcrting
their influence against the introduction of
the Chinese. The subject will be intro
duced into party politics.
Canada is on the right road now The
sooner her people resolve on independence,
which was the very spirit embodied in the
establishment of the Dominion, the speed
Ter will follow their peace and prosperity
On the Kentucky border, q few miles
from Lawrenccvillc, Indiana, a man named
Peter Blew, killed a boy six years of age,
by cutting his throat. He then went to
the boys mother who was alone in the
house, aud tried to commit an assault up
on her. Being successfully resisted, he
fed, and has not yet been arrested
The Kent News says that the popula-
tion of Chestertown is at least two thous-
and two hundred, being an increase of
six hundred and seventy over the popula-
tion of 1860, which by the census of that
year was one thousand five hundred and
thirty.
a special dispatch from Rome, to the
New York Herald, dated July 18th,
states that the Dogma of Infallibility was
adopted by the Qcumcnical Council on
that day by vote of $50 to S9.
Twelve thousand FIVE hundred dollars
has been appropriated by Congress for a
Negro college in Chester county, Pa. All
for the negro, nothing for white men is
the motto of the Radicals.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
slas refused the writ of error in the case of
DIR. Schoeppe, convicted of the murder of
Miss Steinneke, and he will be hanged.
An investigation of the case of the col
'ored cadet at West Point by the Superin-
tendent, as far as it has gone, goes to
show that the young person and his friends
have been guilty of some--exaggeration
England, Russia, and Austria are faith
fully laboring for peace, but with little ap-
parent success so far.
Another successful landing has been
made on the Island of Cuba of aid to the
Cubans.
Jeter Phillips, convicted in Richmond
for the murder of his wife, has been re-
fused pardon by the Governor. He will
be executed on the 22d instant.
The bark Garibaldi, with 275 Chinese,
has arrived at Portland, Oregon. The
vessel passed submarine volcano off the
Japanese coast.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Co.
have purchased from the State of Virgin
ia, the Blue Ridge Tunnel, paying for it
5000, 900 in State bonds.
Senator Norton. Of Minnesota, died at
Washington, on Thursday morning at one
o'clock, of consumption.
The income tax has been fixed at % per
cent. with an exemption of So, 900.
The census of Havre de Grace, shows
population of $500.
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