The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-12-31
TELEGRAPHIC.
1910 Ise.s DIsP..ehs..l


Congressional.
WASHINGTON, December %. - Senate
The Senate agreed to a resolution for adj
jOunment from tomorrow until the fifth oil
January.
In the Senate to-day Carpenter was elected
President pro TEN.
Senator Morton submitted the following
and asked for its present consideration:
ResOirod, That the Senate recognizes the
validity of the credentials of p. B. G..
Pinchback as certified to by Governor w.
p. Kellogg, of Louisiana, under the seal
of said State, and the Committee on Privi-
leges and Elections are instructed to
examine and report if said PiDchback is
entitled TO he admitted on the primO
tdeie case thus made, or if such
admission should be postponed until
an investigation be made as to the charges
of corruption in his election alleged against
him.
Thurman objected TO the present consid-
Grafton of the resolution, and it went over.
Clayton submitted the following, and
asked its present consideration:
Resolced, That the Secretary of War be re
queSted, If not incompatible with the In
terest of the public service, 10 lay be
fore the Senate the official reports and
,mmr nications of Major Lewis Merrill,
of the United States Army, relating to
certain disorders IN Louisiana known as the
Coushatta trouble. Bayard objected, and
it was laid over.
MerrimOn, of North Carolina, presented
resolutions of the North Carolina Legisla-
ture, in favor of an appropriation to enable
the New River Canal Company to connect
the inland water system of North Carolina
with the Atlantic and Gulf States com
merce; also, resolutions of the Legislature
of that State in favor of granting pensions
tn the surviving veterans Of the Mexican
war
House-In the House, after considerable
miscellaneous business, motion was made
to 90 to the Speakers table in order to get
at the Senate finance bill.
The democrats opposed the motion, be-
cause the civil rights bill might thereby
get a move forward. A fillibustering move
ment was set on foot to prevent such thing,
but finallya compromise was effected 10y
which the finance bill was made the special
order for the seventh of January.
CoburE, of Indiana, Albright, OF Penn
sylvania, Common, of Illinois, Buckner. OF
Mississippi, and Luttrell, of California,
were appointed the Select Committee on
Alabama affairs. The first three are Repub-
licans, and the other two are Democrats.
All the committees for the South will
leave Washington next Saturday.
New York.
New York, December 23.-After the re-
fusal of the motion to admit Tweed to bail
writ of certiorari was granted, and the
case will come before the general term OF
the Court of Oyer and Termine=.
The President has pardOned Benton, SEN
fenced to five years in penitentiary for cOun-
teTfeiting match stamps.
New YORK, December 24.-Beecher, in
an editorial in the Christian Union, declares
that she will not compromise with enemies,
and will write and speak while health lasts.
He knows his own innocence; God knows
it, and as to mems knowledge, that shall be
as God pleases."
The agents of the steamer South Caro-
lima, which went ashore on the New jersey
coast, say she has sustained little injury,
and that but small part of her cargo has
been thrown overheard.
Later.-The South Carolina is making NO
water, and if the weather continues good
there is fair prospect of getting her off
NEW YORK, December 24.-The police
raided on the Metropolitan Theatre, stop
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women and the manager.
New YORK, December 24.-The follow
ing dispatch was received by the directors
of the Pacific Mail Company relative to the
loss of the mail steamer Japan: ''Hong
Kong, December 22.-Drowned, Chief Cook
Cussack; missing, Engineer Berrett and
Quartermasters Sutton and Harris.
New YORK, December 24-In the case
of Josephine Mansfield against the execu-
tors of James Fisk, for the payment of two
notes, amounting to $50, 500, payable to the
plaintiff in 1868. by Fisk, the jury to-day
gave verdict for said Josephine Mans
field, with interest.
New YORK, December Ex-Governor Nc.
Emery, in a dispatch dated the twenty-ffth to
the Herald, says the wrong just perpetrated
by the Returning Board against the people
of Louisiana, and which vitality threatens
the safety and integrity of Republican insti-
buttons in the United States, is more
browning lnfamy than the action of the
Lynch Returning Board, and surpasses
even the midnight order Of Durell, and
would not be submitted to by any free
people. Resistance to the national author
ity-represented here by large portion Of
the army aud naval fleets, sustaining g
usurpatiOn and sitting the voice of the
people-has never been meditated.
Signed JOHN McENERY.
New YORK, December 28.-Gerritt
Smith, who had an apoplectic stroke, i:
sinking, but is still alive.
Rev. Mr.. Glendenning declines to preach
until his appeal from the presbytery is
heard by the synod.
NEW YORK, December 29.-The ship
FOrshire, now at this port, is one of the
same line as the Cospatrick. The captain
of the Forshire states that the Cospatrick
has been employed carrying troops to India,
but of late has been running to New Zealand.
Her voyage previous to the last one was in
conveying coolies from Calcutta to Deme-
rara. She was valued at $50, 600; probably
insured in London. He believed the Cos
patrick had the same number of boats as
the Forshire, namely, two cutters, ono long
boat, two life boats and one gig, capable OF
carrying two hundred and fifty people. The
Cospatrick's officers and crew probably
numbered about forty people.
NEW YORK, December 20.-The Will
liamsburg ferryboat collided with cattle
boat in fog; one man killed and another
wounded fatally.
New Orleans.
New ORLEANS, December 23.-The Re.
turning Board to-day threw out Poll No. 4
of Assumption parish, which gave the Con-
servatives 103 majority, thus defeating two
Conservatives and electing two Republican
members to the Legislature. The Conser-
vative majority in the House, it is under
stood, has been reduced to two. The
eleven parishes yet to canvass elected eigh-
teen Conservatives and one Republican to
the House on the second of November.
New ORLEANS. December 24.-At meet
ing of the Returning Board to-day Mr..
Arroyo sent in his resignation as member,
in which he says: 81 am impelled to adopt
the present course 10y the rulings of the
board in the last few days, in returning to
the Legislature, as elected, members who
were Enthusiastically defeated, rulings
which, to my mind, are so clearly partisan
and unjust, defauding the people Of Louis
lana of their chosen representatives, that
my self-respect will not allow me to longer
retain a seat on the board
Arroya's resignation was accepted, and
the board went into executive session.