Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1869 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOHUf..I. The Irish Ghurohblll, with amendments, was adopted in the House of Lords on the sth, after considerable debate. Gen. Mtlsgrove has been appointed to succeed Gov. Seymour, of British Columbia. The Fourth was celebrated by American residents in the principal European cities, on the sth. * Advices from Rio Janeiro, June 10, •lata that the war news was unimportant. McMahon, United States Minister, was at Buenes Ayres and would sail for Rio Janeiro at onoe. Dispatches from Doric on the 6th state that outrages by Fenian organisations continued. The police, near Cork, were attacked on the night of the 4th, and several of them badly hart. Some arrests were subsequently made on suspicion. Cubans in Washington had the following advices on the 6th: “ The Spanish troops, between the 23d and 35th of J une, attacked the forces of General Jordan, near Halgnuin, and, after a fight which is reported to have lasted eight hoars, they were repulsed and compelled to take refuge in tike town. The loss of the Cubans was nearly 300 in killed and wounded. Among those killed were 30 Americans. The Spanish loss was about the same. The Spanish troops consisted of two brigades and outnumbered the Cnbans two to one. General Jordan commanded the revolutionary army.” Captain General De Rod as issued a proclamation on the 7th, stating that the insurrection had been reduced to a mere guerrilla war; and declaring that parties arrested for robbery, arson, or murder, would be tried by court martial An order has been issued permitting the newspapers to publish official news. A Havana telegram of the 7th states that Gen. Lesca had taken command of the. Central Department, and commenced active operations'against the insurgents. De Rod as has also issued a proclamation closing nearly all the ports on the eastern coast of Cuba. He urges carp upon his officers when Boarding United States orEnglish vessels. The British Parliament has agreed to postpone indefinitely any discussion of the Alabama claims. The leading London journals favor this action. DOMESTIC. Acording to a letter from New Orleans on the 7th inst., heavy orders from France for wheat were being received in that city —more than could be filled there. Orders for 100,000 bushels of No. 1 had been received within a few days. Vincent Collyer reports from Leavenworth on the 7th that the Cheyennes and Arapahoee, whom Gena Sheridan and Custar defeated last winter, have retired to their reservations, and that the Quaker agents are working successfully in their department. A Lawrence dispatch of the 7th says “the recent instructions of General Sherman to consider all Indians hostile off their reservations, gives great satisfaction to the people of Kansas All is now quiet on the border.” Washington, dispatches of the Bth state that the iron-clad Centaur has been dis patched to Santiago de Cuba to inquire into the circumstances attending Speekman’s execution. Within two weeks, twenty of our war vessels will be available for service in Cuban waters. A Leavenworth dispatch of the Bth says the reports of damages by floods in the Republican, Saline and Solomon Valleys, in Western Kansas, have been greatly exaggerated. Corn is not injured at all, and • other crops not materially damaged. Very few live# were lost. $ On the sth inst., during the celebration at Elgin, 111., the hew iron bridge across the Fox River, at that place, gave way suddenly, precipitating a large crowd of men and women into the river. Many ware seriously injured. One of the victims—a little child—has since died. In relation to the reported loss of the Powell Expedition, the Chicago Tribune of the Bth publishes the following telegram from Mrs. J. W. Powell: Detroit, July 7. There is one of the name of John Sumner in the Powell Expedition. My last letter was dated May 30. A letter was published in your columns of May 29, dated May 2L In the Omaha Republican ia a statement from one William Riley, that he had seen John Sumner in the mountains, the sole survivor of the party, from whom he had gleaned the facts of the loss. Bumner gave some names, but had forgotten the rest, although he had been with them two years. The story seems to be improbable. The John Sumner of the expedition in such a case would, I believe, have made his way or reported to Chicago or Detroit immediately. Sumner is a most reliable man and brother in-law to William Byers, editor of the Denver News. Mrs. J. W. Powell. A telegram from Cheyenne on the Bth says: v “lt is generally believed that the Powell party are safe. Samuel Adams, with seven men, will start in boats for Breckinridge, Col, July 15, and descend the Blue, Grand and Colorado rivers, through the Great Canon, his objeotive point being the same as that of Major Powell” George Abbott, a member Of the recently captured filibustering party, denounces the whole Cuban expedition business trick to extort or make money from the wealthy Cubans and others who sympathize with the revolutionary eavse. He alleges that the officers allowed such information to be given as resulted in their capture. The Aerial Steam Navigating Company, of San Francisco, being so well satisfied with reoent experiments of the model air steamer, have resolved to construe 1 a machine of sufflefont capacity to cany passengers Two oases of cholera wuo reported ip

New York ttty on UwOth. but the health officers had no fears Of’arf-epidemic. The House Carpenters’ Association -cfc Washington ha# 4o amended, its constitu,tien at tcexclude colored me* from becoming members. • • By au accident to a freight train on the Illinois Central Railroad, near Kankakee, on the night of the 7ih, the locomotive and several care ran off the track, and the. broken cars took fire and were consumed; The engineer,named FatqUhar.waa buried under the Cars arid instantly killed. The fireman was badly scalded by the escaping steam, and the forward brakeman received injuries from which he.expired. An abstract of the report# of thirteen Chicago National Banks shows the resources and liabilities to be $30,241,000 ; specie, $40,000; legal-tender notes, $3,353,000; three per cent, certificates, $590,000; United States deposits, $4,000. The damage by the recent rains in (Jen., tral New York was very Heavy, and Will seriously affect the crops east of Utica. Several mills on the tributaries of the Mohawk were destroyed, and two persons were drowned. PERSONAL., Governor Walker, of Virginia, was the recipient of an ovation at Richmond on the Bth. A New York telegram of Jhe 6th says “ Colonel Ryan’s men who were left at Gardner’s Island have all crossed to the mainland and dispersed. Ryan has gone to Boston, and part of his men returned to New York. Dr. Wm. F. Fair, of New York, has been fined $1,009 and costs in the United States District Court at Trenton, for using a cancelled United Stated stamp on a deed. ,■ ■

Letters received at Montreal, on the 7th, from Jefferson Davis, then at Paris, reader it doubtful if his health'will ever permit hki return. If he recovers sufficiently to perm it travel he will spend the summer in Canada and winter in Mississippi. . iSecretary Boutwell hah appointed Gen. F. E. Spinner, United States Custodian of the Slhkfng Fund and of such bonds as may be bought, subject to the future action of Congress. It is announced that the Empress Eugenie is coming on a trip to America this summer.

In the case of L. Nichols against the Kansas Pacific Railroad, for damages sustained last summer by a train running off the track, a verdict was recently.given at Topeka, for the plaintiff, for $62,500. Admiral Farragut has been elected President of the Society of the Army and Navy of the Gulf. The next meeting of the society will bo held in Boston. At the recent meeting of the Society ol the Army of the Potomac, in New York, Lieutenant General Sheridan was elected President for the ensuing year. ——~ The monument erected to the memory of Fitz Greene Halleck, at Guilford, Conn., was dedicated on the Bth, with appropriate ceremonies. About 8,000 persons were in attendance. James 8. Upton has been appointed postmaster at Battle Creek, Mich., vice Chandler Ford, removed. The Chicago Republican of the 10th says; “John A. Risdon, who has heretofore claimed to be the‘sole survivor’ of the Powell expedition, is now in jail at Springfield, Hi., charged with horsestealing." ~ POLITICAL. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania have declared the Philadelphia registry law constitutional, and the act creating the Twenty-ninth Judicial District unconstitutional. An anti-prohibition organization has been formed in Massachusetts, under the name of the Union Republloan. State Central League.. , The election in Virginia occurred on the 6th. A Richmond telegram of the 7th says: “The State, according to the latest returns to-night, has gone, by nearly 40,000, for Walker. Majority of 50 on joint ballot in the Legislature. The Constitution, with the objectional clauses expurgated, is adopted by an overwhelming majority.” The National Irish Republican Convention assembled in Chicago on the sth. A permanent organization was effected by the election of J. W. Fitzgerald, of Cincinnati, as President, and i the!selection of several .Vice-Presidents and Secretaries. A series of resolutions was adopted, favoring universal suffrage; asking for aid and sympathy in behalf of Ireland, Cuba, etc.; opposed to free trade; endorsing President Grant; opposed to the existing neutrality laws A National Executive Committee was appointed, and the Convention adjourned on the 6th. The Ohio Democratic State Convention met at Columbus on the 7th, and organized with P. Van Trump as President. General W. 8. Rosecrans was nominated for Governor on the second ballot. The other nominations are; Lieutenant Governor, General T. J. Godfrey, of Mercer; Supreme Judge, W. J. Gilmore, of Preble; Treasurer of State, Stephen Buhrer, of Cleveland General, Colonel J. M. Connell, of Fairfield; Board of Public Works, Ben Churchill, of Hamilton. Returns received in Richmond on the 9th from eighty-four counties in Virginia give Walker, for Governor, 68,000 majority. The lager beer dealers' of Boston have formed a permanent organization for vigorous political action to tepbal the liquor law. The Germans throughout the State are invited to form local societies for the same object. _ A Washington special of the 9th announces that the President woutd at once issue his proclamations ordering elections In Texas and Mississippi on the fourth Tuesday in November,