Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1869 — Weekly News Summary. [ARTICLE]

Weekly News Summary.

Foreign. A Paris dispatch of the Oth states that Father Hyacinthe had sailed for the United States, where he will remain two months or so. A report that the Rothschilds have sent an agent to offer a loan to this Government is denied by friends of that firm. The funeral of Martin, the Fenian, who died in London on the sth, took place on the 10th, and Was attended by 6,000 people. The father and mother and other relatives of the deceased were present,' wearing green, scarfe, and participated in the ccretnonfes; • /. ■□*■'4 Considerable alarm wasjprevailing along the Canadian frontier on the 10th, and the militia at held in readiness for action. Advices from Spanish Republican sources, received in Paris on, the lityi, represent that the insurrection was gaining ground. It was asserted that the government already fdared a general attack on Madrid. Cabcrillo and Carbajal, two insurgent leaders, were captured and taken to the. town of Ibi, where they were shot.

At the late amnesty meeting in Dublin, an address was adopted declaring that a refusal to release the Fenian prisoners, would be regarded as a sign that the Government was deterintped to rule by terror. . F - a A letter has been received stating that on September 30 the Island of fit. Thomas was visited by an earthquake, which shook the city of St. Thomas to itsfoundations. The shocks were so severe as. to materially injure many of the buildings. The earthquake caused a general panic among the inhabitants, and the entire suspension of business. Fighting was still going on in Valencia, Spain, on the 12th, and the Republic had been proclaimed at Malaga and Valladolid. Casteliar, the celebrated leader to the Cortes, had fled to Portugal, to escape assassination. Further rioting was looked for and dreaded in Madrid. The Bishop of Toronto, Canada, lias, designated Sunday, October 25, as a day of public thanksgiving for the bounteous harvest with which the Province has been favored. . A severe shock of earthquake was felt on September 17 at Curracoa, the first fever experienced there, and created great terror. ■- The Madrid Bpoca of the 14th publishes a synopsis of the reply made by Minister Silvela to the note of General Sickles. Senor Silvela says reasons, dictated by national dignity, prevent the acceptance of foreign mediation in a domestic affair. The intimations made by General Sickles ■ are received with the good will which one nation owes to another, with which it is bound by ties of amity. It is presumed that the American Government only de--sires to strip the struggle in Cuba of its sanguinary character. The Washington Cabinet is urged to impede the departure of supplies for the insurgents, who prevent the Spanish Government from car- ' rying out a policy in Cuba in harmony with that at home. Senor Silvela maintains that the insurgents of Cuba are in the minority, and by no means belong to the wealthiest and most influential classes, as has been so constantly expressed. In a letter to Mr. Kirke, dated on July 8,1868, Dr. Livingstone, the African explorer, states that he believes he has discovered the true sources of the Nile, at a point between 10 and 12 degrees south. Later in'elligence from Zanzibar says Dr. Livingstone was then on his road to the coast. . The Empress Eugenie arrived at Constantinople on the 14th, and vMjfeceived by the Sultan with the most cent ceremonies. . Advices from Buenos Ayres to September 9 state that President Lopez bad not left his country, but was at San Estonia laus, with 2,000 men and 20 cannon. According to official reports in Madrid on the 14th the insurrection was reduced to small groups of insurgents, who were doing their utmost to avoid national troops. Valencia still held out against the troops. An official dispatch from that quarter stated that the insurgents Had proposed to capitulate, but the authorities demanded unconditional submission. Six thousand rebels had submitted to government officers at Saragossa, Barcelona, and vicinity. The. Republican' leaders, Paul and Salrocliea, had fled to Gibraltor, being abondoned by their followers. ThaCoiW had passed a vote of thanks to the loyalists in Cuba. Twelve thousand men of the regular army, with forty pieces of cannon, were before Valencia on the Iffih, and negotiations were pending. A brief delay had been granted, and a certain time fixed within which the revolutionists might submit and receive full pardon; but should they hold out after the time had expired their lives would be forfeited. ■ Gen Prim declared in the Cortes, on the 14th, that the home Government onto’jawaited a favorablb'rfesult of file ctoraimn Cuba to accord all the reforms and liberies required by the colony. The London Times' money article’of the 15th states that the confidence in the ability of Spftfn toon to repress the Republican insurrection was increasing. Mote fighting Is reported in Catalonia and Grenada. The government troops had been victorious. It was calfeulated that there ware 20,000 armed insur* gents in the field. DOMESTIC. Gold closed iu New York on the 15th at 130 .7 , v .‘, , Tim co»l was.ramnved frrnn | l>a »te>uu:r Cnbti nt, Wilmington'on the IHti.. Shmhad bql tep -tons on hbardtj htfely enbiijjh to t#m eight bourse, w /is feVhhirics 'tijStdame in In disteaas. . At Prospect Park, ftp the ihh, Bonney's.

horse, Dexter, trotted half a mile in one minute and fdiir seconds, which is the best time he has yet made. The steamer Euterpe left New York on the 9th for Havana, with her original cargo of munttfons of war. . / Eastport, Me., was visited by a severe hurricane on'the 4thinst., which destroyed a large portion of tire town. Several vessels were lost with all on board. It was thought the loss could not be less than A freshet on the Swift river, in Oxford county, caused a rise of thirty-six feet Intwelve hours, which flooded fhnns, swept away houses, barns, Ac., and rendered tho farmers impoverished and houseless. The people barely escaped and fled totbe mountains. I The building used for storing nltro-gly- , cerine at the Hoosac Tunnel was blown up on the 9thi and three.men were killed. The first anniversary of the Cuban Itevolution was celebrated in Baltimore on the 11th, by a procession, an<| an oration at the Masonic Temple. Over a million gallons of whisky have been seized at San Francisco, the officers claiming that it was ndt pure Bourbon las. represented, but.iS fraudulent, hnd thclfefore is liable to seizure. There was almost a total suspension of business at Washington oii the 11th, in respect tothe memory of ex-President Pitrfce. All' of the Departments were clotod, and the municipal offices and batiks transacted nothing of a. public character. Flags Were 'Suspended at half-mast, and minute guns'were fired during the day. * The first anniversary of the Cuban revolution was Observed in New York city on the 11th. A civic celebration took place in the evening, in Cooper Institute, which was crowded by the friends of Cuba. The Erie and Susquehanna Railroad fight has-ended amicably r the Erie leasing the Susquehanna for 99 years on terms acceptable tothe stockholders.

A New York telegram of the 12th states that criminal proceedings would soon bo instituted agjunst the Wall street gold manipulators-’ for organizing a conspiracy ■to damage the public "At the meeting In New York, on the : 12th, of the stockholder^,of the Eric fiSf road Company, the Gould-Fisk ticket was unanimously elected Jay Gould was subsequently chosen President, and James Fisk, Jr., Comptroller. i James Cunningham, colored, has been appoin,ted Postmaster of the city of Manchester, Virginia. The Red Stockings, of Cincinnati, defeated the Omaha Base Ball Club on the llth-r-65 to 1. The Southern Commercial Convention at Louisville completed Its organization on the 13th. Ex-President Fillmore was chosen permanent President. Another fearftil storm was experienced at the East on the 12th and 13th. The lock-up in the village of Charlotte, N. Y., was burned -on the 13tb, and two sailof s„ Alexander Fisher and Michael Lane, of Elyria, Ohio,.belonging to the schooner Cascade, of Green Bay, who were prisoncrs.in the lock-up, were burned to death. In tho destruction by fire of a dwelling at Albion, N. on the 13th, a young woman named Jenny Reynolds was burned to death. It is supposed the fire was caused by the careless use of kerosene; In the Commercial demonstration at JjouJsville on the 14th the procession isestimated to have been seven miles imtengtb, and was three hours and a quarter in passing a given point. There were hundreds of vehicles irr Una representing the various manufacturing and mercantile interests of the cities around the Falls of the Ohio. ' The Navy and War Departments have uriited in the of a uniform system of signals, to be used in their branches of service. In a recent ease in the United States District Court of Baltimore, which has been appealed to the Supreme Court, it was shown that three National banks of Baltimore have been lending as high as eighty per cent, of their capital for speculative purposes. A disphteh from Springfield, 111., on the IGth says it had been definitely ascertained that the corn crop in that section of the State has not been better for many years, if cyer, Tho First National Bank of Austin, Nevada, has fail^ r< Tire monthly report front the Bureau of Statistics, for the month of July, shows Jhe value of exports to have been f 85,and the imports for the same month $37,604,886. The total tonnage of Vessels engaged in foreign trade during the month was, entered, 1,020,704 tons; cleared, 1,028,094 tons. k Customs receipts from October 1 to October 9, inclusive, were $4,079,706. The argument in the Yerger case in the Supreme Court at Washington was commenced on the 15th by Attorney General Hoar, and answered by Mr. J. M. Carlisle. ... The Governor of New York State has fixed the 18th of November as a day of thanksgiving and prayer. PIRNONAL. Jefferson Dans arrived in Baltimore on th&Hth, from Europe. The flags on the City Hall and public buildiipgsTn Jifeiv York city w'ere lialfmasted on Che Oth, In respect to the memory of ex-Presideat fierce. - Over 200 delegatee, representing- twenty one States, had arrived in Louuvi)lq on yie tlth, to attend the Commercial Convehfton. Ex-fresidejit FillmoreJie’ld a public reception at the Court House. Governor Senter, of Tenneasee, was inSugurated at Nashville on the lUh. Vice-President Colfax arrived in Omaha on the morning of the 11th. ■ who bad been quite ill in Chicago for two or three days, was better ©a fiijtJUh,

The fli neral of ex-Presldoht Pierce took place at Concord on the 11th. Cyrus A. Eastman, appointed Treasurer of tho San Fi-ancisco Mint some time since, has accepted the position. President Grant has appointed Gen. Wm. W. Belknap, of lowa, Secretary of War. Major General Belknap is a graduate of Princeton College, New Jersey. Ro commanded one of the divisions of the Fifteenth Army Corps, in General Sherman’s last two campaigns. He is about 38 years of age, and Is a lawyer by sion.The Chicago Tribune of the 14lh says: “The condition of Rear Admiral Farragut, now lying sick at tho Sherman House, leaves but little hope for his recovery. Indeed, before this reaches the eye of the ■rwulop the old hero may havo* passed from among the living.” Rev. Dr. Henry Nites Pierce has been elected Missionary Bishop of Arkansas and the Indian Territory by the House of Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church. | The President, General Shermqn, Sccjetory of the Interior, Postmaster General, and a number qf other officials, were in attendance upon the Maryland State Fair at Frederick, on the 14th. General Belknap, the new Secretary of War, telegraphed his formal acceptance bn the 14th. He would enter upon the duties of the office in about two weeks. The President and party visited the Antietam battle-field on tho 15th. The condition of Admiral Farragut was such at an eilriy hour oh the morning' of the 16th as to give rise to strong hopes for his recovery. Colonel W. H. Bollock, of Wisconsin, has been appointed Consular Agent at Bradford, England, wes Geo. M. Towles.

; POLITICAL. The total number of registered voters in Mississippi is 139,937. Of this number, 80,761'are colored men, and 59,176 white men, giving to the former a majority of 21,535. The Minnesota State Temperance Convention, at St. Paul, Oct. 7, nominated the following' ticket: Governor, Rev. D. Cobb, Republican; Chief Justice, E. O Hamlin, Democrat,' Lieutenant Governor, John; H. Stevens, Democrat; Secretary of •State, E. J. Thompson, -Republican; Attorney General, J. Ham Davidson, Republican ; Auditor, C. C. Commcl, Republican; Treasurer, Henry Russell, Republican; Clerk of Supreme Court, A. P. Connelly, Republican. At a meeting of Mormons in the new Tabernacle, at Salt Lake City; held on the 7th insfc,and numbering; it is said, 12,000 persons, a committee was appointed to draft a memorial to Congress, - asking the admission of Utah as a State. In the District Court of San Francisco, Judge Sawyer lias decided that Chinese testimony was admissablc in the courts against white men, under the Fourteenth .Amendment. At the city election in Newark, N. J., on the 12th, Ricord, Republican, was elected Mayor by 238 majority over Smalley, Democrat. The Council will stand 14 Democrats to 12 Republicans. The Democrats gain an Aiderman in the Fourth, Fifth, Seventh and Eighth Wards; The latest returns from the Pennsylvania election up to the morning of the 13th indicate a close vote, with the probabilities in favor of Geary, Republican, for Governor. Williams, Republican, for Judge of the Supreme Court, ran ahead of his ticket. Governor Senter’s message was delivered to the Tennessee Legislature on the 12th. He favors immediate enfranchisement and the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment. In Savannah, Ga., on the 11th, the Democratic candidate for Mayor, and an entire Democratic Board of Aidermen, were elected by aboiit 3,000 majority. The Wyoming Legislature met on the 13th, and the members were sworn in by Chief Justice Howe. T. D. Marvin, of Laramie! county, was elected President of the Council, and John Herrick, of Albany county, Speaker of tlw House. 8. J. Tilden has been chosen Chairman and William Cassidy, Secretary, of the New York Democratic State Central Committee. The Indiana Democratic State Convention is to be held in Indianapolis on tfie Bthof January next, A Philadelphia dispatch of the 14th says; “ The tables of majorities published in the show Geary’s majority 2,342. A table prepared by the State Central Committee figures up his majority at 4,104. The Aye says the contest is close, and a few hundred votes may settle the matter. The Arkansas Liberal Republican State Convention adjourned on the 15th. A liberal platform was adopted, endorsing universal suffrage and general reform, the present State Government and its action. Returns were received at De» Moines on the 15th from thirty-eight counties in lowa, in which the total Republican majority is 28,480. V A Columbus, Ohio, telegram of the 15th says returns from seventy-one counties give a loss for Hayes, over last year, of 5,562. If the remaining seventeen counties give the same ratio of losses, Hayes’ majority will be about 10,900. “The House, according to latest returns, without Hamilton County, stands 52 Republicans to 4b Democrats, and the Senate 17 Republicans to 16 Democrats?’ The Vermont Legislature organized on the 15t6, and G. W Grandy wa» sleeted Speaker of the Houser ' The official Cbnuf bf’thc returns of the Vermont election gives P. T. Washburn, for Governor 20,853 majority in a total of 42,389 votes, and John A, Page, (or .Treasurer, ,20,531 in a ,; ■Hie citizens’ ticket in Cincinnati con; tained tw<> itepubjican arid tWo Demodrfttic Senators, fire Representatives*i»f eachiwrtv, «qd three each of thecounty officers, and vfaa eWcwsL by aver 2,000