Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1868 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

1 Foreign Item*—A railioad has bet m projected . in Jnpau. ‘ v i * • •—The little Slate of l’anama is bankrupt. —Three railroads arc being built in Greece. (****',• - v « ... . L' 1 —There aro two newspapers at Oscara, Japan. —Tlie Cuban insurrection is causing uneasiness, . . , r —Salnarc, in Hayti, has his hnuds fnty with the; insiirgent*7^—Oranges and citrons have failed in Sicily this year. about her dethronement. —A severe earthquake occurred at Salvador on the 25th nib —White-legged fowls are the favorite with English epicures. —The Pope has purchased eight rifled cannon iu France recently. i~ Ex-Queen Isabella and suite are expected iu England on the 6th mst. —Prussia and Portugal have recognized the new Spanish Government. ——General Dulce accepted the appointment of Captain General of Cuba. —A Sunday School on Mount Zion has an attendance, of sixty-four j children. —Eight thousand dollars have been subscribed for The*. D'Arcy I McGee’s widow. i —The Spanish Government wants a loan of 200,000,000 crowas at six per cent interest, —Scnor Manrico Lopez Robertson has been appointed Spanish Minister to Washington. —The election for members of the Constituent Cortez of Spain will take place on the 29th iust. —The iate Chief Justice Draper is now Presiding J udge of the Ontario Court of Error and Appleal. —Prominent citizens of Cuba arc advocating annexation to tlie United States, and the abolition of slavery*. —lt in said that tho Chessepot rifle is a failure, and that Napoleon is going to replace it with a better ! one. —One of the lute King Theo- i dore's sons is iu rebellion agningt : Libazxi, the new Abyssinian Em- ' peror,, ' | —Queen Isabella is becoming j ! bald, and the loss of her lair is said ! j to trouble her more than the loss of I | her crown. ; I and his rival,j Sadler, are to row on j J the Thames, ion December Ist, for j i , » I Serrano, the President of the Spanish Provisional Government, was : ! twice exiled, and was once in high j ! favor with Queen Isabella, Till! Right Rm. oharie*-4*»»g~. "joy, - ” Dv lIAr T -. AiTliiituhop -of—Xllq-timx-*—. bury, died on the 28th ult, aged j seventy-four.

■ —Owing to the failure of cereals TiFGautamala, the President ot that State has issued a decree abolishing L ° j the import duty on all cereals, vegetables and lard until 1870. . Our Government has been notified by our Consul at Capo Town, of the discovery of extensive gold fields in South Africa, 1,500 miles north-east of Cape Town. <a»t* —Two scientific expeditions to the j North are being fitted out in j Europe, one at Breman, under Petemaun, and the other at Havre, under ! Lambert. —The New York Tribune, of Octoj ber 28, publishes a card .from the | Cuban Revolutionary Junta which says the revolution “is still progressing, and will only die out when Spanish rule in Cuba shall have expired." —Don Pedro Aguilar, the leader of the Cuban insurgents has gathered airarmed force, variously estimated at from r 2,ooQ to 10,000, and threatens to declare immediate emancipation, if necessary to insure success. The Government has chartered one of the Spanish mail steamships to transport troops to Jhe scene of action, and has ordered !bt»4jattalions of infantry, one squadron of cavalry and a field battery to look after him. —Genera] Prim, the new Spanish W ar Minister, is a soldier of fortune. He was a Colonel at the age of twen-ty-five, was elected from Barcelona to thp Cortes in JB4O, represented Spain at Constantinople during the Crimean war, distinguished himself in the war against Morocco and in -the Mexican expedition, waa twice exiled, but has returned to bitj na live land triumphant, and is now unquestionably the roost . popular fiiitn ih Spain. ■ i, - ' .A- . • |,J