The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-23

fill the vacancy in Congress from the Fourth
Tennessee District
John W. Johnston has been chosen TO be his
own successor in the United States Sena
from Virginia.
A plea of guilty has been entered by batch
Of Covington (Ky.) illicit distilers.
Nick Thompson (coloreO was hanged for
murder at Quitman, Ga, on the 18th OF De-
cember Another murderer, W. B. Thompson,
was executed at Lewisburg, Ark, on the same
day.
The Aexican cattle thieves are again at their
deviiish work on the Rio Grande. A party re-
Gently stole 800 head of cattle and so horses
near San Felipe, Texas, and ran them across
the river. The citizens are greatly excited IN
consequence, and threaten to organize them
selves and cross the river.
The Gazette building, at Little Rock, Ark.
was recently destroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000,
Washington.
The report of Attorney General Pierrepont
has Just been laid before Congress-. He urges
that District-Attorneys be paid salaries only, to
be graded according to place giving the ap-
pointment of Assistant District-Attorneys to
the Acknowledgement; that uniform mode of
selecting jurors for United States Courts be pro-
vided by law that q law he passed forbidding
the payment of Deputy Marshals by certificates
or due-bills and the advance of any money to
Marshals whose accounts are unadjusted at the
Treasury over six months. He refers to the
case of Brigham Young, and asks further legis-
lation. The labors of the Supreme Court
and Court of Claims are alluded to,
and it is suggested that such
legislation be had as will enable the latter
Court, aided by the Acknowledgement, to in
crease the safeguards against improper testi-
mony by devising different mode of taking it,
and to force old cases to early trial or require
them to be dismissed without power of restor-
alton.
The following is the anti-subsidy resolution
introduced in the House by Mr.. Holman, of In
diana, and adopted by vote of 223 yeas to 80
nays:
RESOLVED, That in the judgment of this House. in
the present financial affairs Of this Government no
subsidies in money, bonds, public lands, indorse-
rnents, or by pledge of public credit, should be
granted to associations corporations engaged, or
proposing to engage in public private enterprises
and that all appropriations from the Public Urea
sury ought to be limited at this time to such
amounts only as shall be imperatively demanded by
the public service.
Those voting in the negative are nearly all
Southern members, as follows: Cabell, OAR
rail-. Douglas, Dunnell Goode, Hancock, Har-
ris CVa.), House, Hunton. Hyman. Jones (Ky.),
Kelley, Lamar, Mills Mercy, O'Neill, Parsons,
Reagan, Reilly Slemons, Smalls, Strait, Stone,
Ferry, Throckmorton, Tucker, Vance On. O.,
Wallace (Pa.), Wells (Mo.), Wells (Miss.1
White, Yates, Young-53.
George L. Bangs, Superintendent of the
Railway Postal Service, has resigned.
About 300 Senators, Representatives in Con-
gress and newspaper men left Washington on
the afternoon of the 18th inst, on a dead-head
excursion to Philadelphia, to examine the Cen
tennial buildings.
The President has nominated to the Senate
Mr.. George F. Seward as United States Minis
ter to China, and Mr.. James Birney, of Michi-
gan as United States Minister to the Neither
lands.
The Postmaster General, in the course OF
few weeks, will put into operation an ex-
tended plan for the exchange OF registered
pouches between important distributing Offices.
In these pouches all letters mailed to the ex-
change offices are inclosed, accompanied by q
letter bill, showing the numbers of each pack
age, and receipt given for each pouch obviates
the necessity Of receipang each package sepa-
rately, thereby saving great deal of time and
trouble to postal-car clerks and others, who are
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Political.
Mayor Cobb, of Boston, has been reelected
by majority of 5000.
A State Convention of Texas Republicans
will be held at Houston on the 18th of January.
The Democratic State Convention meets at
Galveston on the 5th.
The Washington Euening Star considers it
certain that the next Republican National Con-
vention will be held in Chicago.
The following is the full text of the resolu-
tons introduced in the Senate by Mr.. Morton,
defining the political obligations of the States
under the Constitution:
ResolOed, By the Senate, the House Of Represent
atives concurring, that the people of the United
States constitute nation, and one people in the
sense OF national unity.
Rescued, That the Government of the United
States is not compact between the States in their
municipal and corporate characters, but was formed
by the people of the United States in their primary
capacity; that the rights Of the States are defined
and guaranteed by the Constitution, and not by any
outside theory of State sovereignty and that the
rights of the States cannot be enlarged or dimin-
ished, except by an amendment to the Constitu-
ton.
ReSOsve9, That the rights of the States have the
same sanction and security in the Constitution as
the rights and power of the National Government,
and that local domestic government by the States,
within the limits of the Constitution is essential
of our free Republican system.
Resolved, That the doctrine that State has the
right to secede from the Union is inconsistent with
the idea of nationality is in conflict with the spirit
and structure of the Constitution, and should be