Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-01-27

Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has posi-
lively declined, the recent increase of his
salary to $4,000, voted him BY Plymouth
Church, Brooklyn.
There were rumors in New York city
on the 10Th of a new Feniln expedition to
Canada, and the Brotherhood in Ireland
express a willingness to revolt as soon az
the move is made.
TIE West.
The Iowa Legislature organized on the
nth. The officers of the Senate are (:
James NJ. Weart, Secretary; ]. A. Tull,
First Ao0' slant; Eve. Gardiner, Second
Assistant; Val. Mendall, Seargeant-at-
Arms; N. F. Weber, Doorkeeper; Geo.
H. Ballou, Engrossing Clerk; E. G. Story,
Enrolling Clerk; Geo. f. Work, Post
master. The House elected A, r. Cotton,
of Clinton county, Speaker; Charles Al
drich, Clerk; Ben. Van Seiberg, First AS
sistant, and Fl. G. Rippery, Second Assist
ant Clerk; Miss Mary E. Spencer, Engrosss-
ing Clerk; H. G. Rushman, Sergeant
alarms; Thos. Morse, and r. E. Bayard,
Postmasters, and George F. Work, Assist
ant.
The joint resolution ratifying the Fiji
teenth Amendment passed the Senate OF
Minnesota, on the 18th, by vote of ID
ayes to 6 noes, three Senators being alb
sent
Concerning the petition signed by the
Mayor and Common Council of Chicago,
and presented to Governor Palmer, in be-
half of Walsh, recently under sentence to
be hung in Chicago for the murder of his
wife, and which petition reflected on the
character of the murdered woman, the
Mayor and one of the Aldermen publish
cards, in which they say that they: signed
the petition for the communication OF the
sentence of Walsh without reading it.
They knew, of course, that it was q petl-
ton recommending Walsh to Executive
cemency but they did not know that it
embraced any aspersion on the memory
of his deceased wife. 1t was this petition
that influenced the Governor to commute
the sentence to Imprisonment for life.
The Minnesota House on the 18th rati-
fed the Fifteenth Amendment by vote
of 20 to Is.
Both houses of the Kansas Legislature
have ratified the Fifteenth Amendment
The intelligence from The Red River
country, received on the 18th, announced
that the Sioux Indians were on the "war'
path" and menacing the insurgents and
Americans, instigated thereto by the
agents of Gov. McDougall. 1t was also re-
ported that the new Hudson Bay Compa-
ny's Governor had acknowledged the val
idity of the insurgents Provisional Gov.
eminent.
The st. Louis Western WatcAman says
that Bishop Duggan is insane and is con,
fined in an insane asylum in that city.
Both houses of the Kansas Legislature
have passed resolutions instructing the
delegation in Congress to vote against
further appropriations for public buildings
in Washington, and also asking Congress
to secure titles to settlers in what is known
as the Black Rot Indian lands.
The town of Laporte, California, was
nearly destroyed by fire on the 18th inst
A bill has been introduced into the Ohio
House of Representatives prohibiting the
reading of the Bible, or singing hymns OF
psalms in the public schools
The Republican caucus of the Iowa
Legislature nominated for United States
Senator'S, Hon. George G. Wright, of the
State Supreme Court, for the regular sue,