Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-03-06
NEWS BY MAIL.

during the election Monday.
Governor Dix has granted a respite to Eos
ter, the(ar hook murderer, until the 2lst
inst.
Congress was in session all Monday night
and up TO noon Tuesday, when the 42d Con-
gress expired BY limitation.
dispatch from Little Rock says Of the
election in Arkansas, that the returns are
very meagre, though there seems to be no
doubt OF the ratification of the constitutional
amendment doing away with disfranchise-
ment. @saes
The New York Senate, by vote of to
Is, on Tuesday refused to declare Tweeo's
seat vacant
The yellow fever is raging fearh4iiy degree
IN Rio Janeiro.
Three hundred liberal Catholics have unit
ed in the address to Pere Hyacinthe urging
him to resume the pulpit at Geneva. The
father has made a favorable reply, saying
that he is willing to preach 10 those who are
| resolved not to surrender to ul.ramontanism
or unbelei.
! A meeting of the stockholders of the Bos-
ton g. Providence ard Stoughton branch rail-
| roads en- Tuesday consolidated the two roads
under the Boston and Providence manage.
ment.
! The DEMOCRATS of the third congress ional
/ district of Connecticut in convention Tues
! day at Norwich, nominated Hon. James A.
! Bill Of Lyme. They first nominated Col. +.
! B, LOOMS Of New London, but he declined.
/ The report OF the Conference Committee
+ on the postal appropriation bill which has
been agreed to by both Houses, adopts the
Senate provision prohibiting after July any
free matter whatever in the mails which cuts
of exchanges between newspapers and the
tree transmission of papers within the conn
| ties in which they are printed.
The Washington correspondent of the Bss-
ton Journal says the participants in the in
augural procession, both civil and military,
seemed TO stand the cold remarkably we'll,
though tlue noses and watery eyes were the
rule rather than the exception. The task of
the musicians and standard bearers was In
deed no, an easy or disagreeabe task, for the
immense body Of men moved slowly, with
frequent standstills. and there was to those
gentlemen no earthly possibility of putting
their hands in their pockets for warmth. One
Of the West Point cadets was overcome BY
the cold while standing in line in Pennsylya-
MIA avenue, between 2lst and 22d streets, and
fell to the pavement. He was picked up by
his comrades and carried into a bakery near
=.
time lie recovered consciousness and was con-
yeyed 70 bis hotel.
Attack on Speaker Blaine by a Demo.
crat. The Assailant Squelched by q
Coiored Member.
Washington, March 1, 1873.
Perhaps the most dramatic event of the
season occurred during the twenty minutes
before anal adjournment this morning. The
Speaker had announced that all the bills that
had passed had been enrolled. y resolution
had been adopted that no more business
should be transacted, except 20 receive an ex.
ecutive message, should orc chance to come.
The committee appointed to wait upon the
! President had announced that he had no fur
Their communications to make, and the House
was at the most waiting for the midday hou.
10 arrive, when Mr.. Z. L. Acker democrat
from Pennsylvania rose TO privileged CUES.
ton. lie did not take his seat until he had
shown himself capable of very indecent and
discourteous conduct.
/ He arose 20 arraign Speaker Blaine for an
alleged act of dscourtesy that occurred on
the last day of the last session. In the Globe
in the record OF the proceedings of the last
day of the June session, it appears that res
| olution was passed expressing the appre-
citation Of the House of the .impartialjty
and efficiency Of Speaker Blaine, and that
the resolution was unanimously adopted.
Mr.. Acker had to say that il was false, that
the resolution was not unanimous. HIS vote
was needed TO make it unanimous, and lie de-
sired that the world should understand that
his vote was refused. Speaker Blaine, he
urged, had treated him unfairly in declining
to permit him to take up an amnesty bill, and
he could not forgive him.
| The House was paralyzel with astonish-
ment Gen. Negley finally had the courage
to shout, at the top of his voice, "Mr. Speak
er, that is An outrage"
The democrats who 80 gracefully took the
initiative in rendering thanks to the Speaker,
assisted to boot thei: colleague down, but
Speaker Blaine found en- unexpected cham
pion and Mr., Acier powerful enemy.
Mr.. Rainey, 4 colored member from South
Carolina had listened to Acker's regrets con-
cen ming the failure of amnesty, and when he
concluded stepped quickly down n the arena
before the Speakers desk and 10 front of the
seat OF Acke.. An exciting scene followed.
In speech OF much eloquence and fire, Mr..
Rainey denounced the party anu its discour-
teous representative, who had struggled for
the amnesty OF rebels while opposing civii
rights to his own race. He spoke for his
race with the vigor of slavery days, and when
/ ACker has shrunk abashed and speeches. be-
fore Raneys finger OF scorn, the whole
House broke on, in applause, in which the
democrats themselves participated. In ten
minutes thereafter the Forty Second Con-
gress was adjourned without day. Perley