UNITED STATES NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 264, 5 June 1868, Page 3

UNITED STATES NEWS.

(From the Panama Star and Herald.) The Massachusetts Republican State Convention assembled at Worcester on tho 12th, and, after selecting delegates to the National Convention, adopted resolutions endorsing the action of Congress, and declaring General Grant and Senator Wilson to be it choice for President and Vice President. Tho President on the 12th accepted the resignation of Henry Stanley as Attorney General of the United States. Mr Stanley will, with others defend tho President on the impeachment trial. General Hancock has issued an order fixing the 17th and 18 April for the election on the ratification of the new Louisiana constitution. The trial of Jeff Davis was formally declared postponed on the 12th in Judge Underwood's court at Richmond until the 14th day of April next. Davis's recognizance is continued to that day. The South Carolina Republican State Convention met in Charleston on the 12th and nominated a negro named Cordoza for Secretary of State ; he is claimed by New Haven to have been formerly preacher in that place. Half the delegates elected to attend the National Convention at Chicago are negroes. The Canadian Parliament reconvened in New York on the 12th ult. The North and South Carolina Reconstruction Conventions have both agreed to adjourn on the 17th March. The Spanish bark Cienfuegos was attached and seized in New York on the 12th nit. by officers of Marshal Murray's department, on a charge of an attempt to defraud the government by smuggling cigars, a large quantity of which, it is alleged, she had on board and no tax paid on them. Correct returns of the election in Hampshire whittle tho radical majority down to 2,000,

Rev. Stephen 11. Tyng, Jr., was formally admonished for a violation of one of the canons of the Episcopal Church by the Right Rev. Bishop Potter, at the Church of the Transfiguration, on Twenty-ninth street, N. Y., on 14th March. The dense crowd assembled acted in such an undignified manner that the presence of policemen was considered necessary to maintain order. Mr. Tyng entered on the arm of his father andf received the admonition. On its conclusion his father entered a written protest apainet the proceedings, and the crowd gathered around Mr. Tyng, Jr., some urging him to address them from the altar and others hissing loudly. The police finally interfered and he withdrew.