Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1869 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOKBMIN. Letters from Havana received on the 81st ult., represent the Captain General as being greatly displeased with the course which affairs were taking in the interior, and also|that he apprehended some opposition to the departure of Espinar, on the part of the volunteers. The reports from the interior were generally favorable for the revolution, and one Spanish officer gives it as his opinion that 100,000 more troops from Spain will be required to conquer the island. The cholora was making ieprful havoc at Nuevitas, two hundred of tlie troops there dying daily of that disease. The military authorities in Canada seem to be preparing for another invasion of that country from the United States. Gen. Sickles, Minister to Spain, presented his credentials to Marshal Serrano, on the 31st ult., and said that the United States more than ever appreciated the |amity between the two countries, to which Serrano replied that the Government would endeavor to increase the amity so happily existing. The small pox has broken out in Valparaiso, and the yellow fever at Rio Janeiro. A Havana te.egram of the 31st ult. says that on the 28th 5,000 negro insurgents attacked Puerto Principe, making a general raid through the city. Spanish troops to the number of 4,000 men attacked them. A severe struggle ensued, in which the ground was contested inch by inch, the insurgents retiring in perfect order, having achieved the object for which they made the raid. They captured and destroyed provisions valued at $50,000, and made good their retreat. An immense Fenian demonstration was made at Limerick, Ireland, on the Ist. Twenty thousand people marched in procession, and at the meeting held afterward, a letter to Gladstone demanding the release of the Fenians then in prison was read and adopted. The proceedings were most enthusiastic, but the tone of the speeches was moderate, and there was no disturbance of the peace. A Madrid telegram of the there had been several encounters between the Government troops and Carlist insurgents, ; in all of .which the latter had been beaten. 1 A numfeer of insurgents were killed and wounded, and many taken prisoners. Gefle, in Sweden, was destroyed by fire July 10. Seven hundred tenements were burned. A terrible accident occurred on the 2il ingt. in the coal mines in the mountain district, near Dresden. Over 300 persons were killed.

A dispatch from Madrid on the 4th denies the report that Spain has opened negotiations with the United States for the independence of Cuba. La France newspaper, August 4th, reports that Queen Isabella is disposed to abdicate the throne of Spain in favor of tlie Prince of Asturias. At an efifly hour onlfie morefiiig of the 6tb, during the session of the English Parliament, great excitement was caused by a loud explosion in the building. Search was instituted, and a tin case which had contained powder picked up on a terrace near by.. Not much damage was done. There were no arrests, and the whole affair was involved in mystery. The Irish Bishops, in conference at Dublin, have resolved that a general synod, composed of the laity as well as clergy, shall assemble at an early day. They will also convene provincial synods to consider the local changes necessary to be made under the present circumstances of the Church. ‘ -■ The three cardinal points conceded by Napoleon in the Senatus Consultum are : First, that the Legislature will have the power to elect its own officers and govern itself; second, that it will have a right to initiate laws; third, that it will have power to control France.

DOMESTIC. Fractional currency issued during the week ending July 31st, $190,000; amount shipped, $103,628; amount destroyed, $:143,819. National currency issued, $219,640. Total circulation, $299,782,810. The following is the telegraphic summary of the public debt statement, issued on the 2d: Debt basting- interant In coin $8,107,931,300.00 Debt bearing interest in lawful money 64,810,009.00 Debt bearing no intercut 488,878,860.18 Debt on which Interest haa ceased since maturity... 4,790,056.64 • $9,001,401,815.76 Accrued interest to date and coupons due not pretented for pavmout . 33,718,528.81 Total debt principal and intere5t..58,635,188,738.57 Amount in he Treasury Coin belonglug to gov- a* eminent $66,406,770.98 Coin for which certiflontos of duposils are outstanding 38,785,840.00 Currency 83,381,6M.89 Sinking fluid in U. S. coin-interest bonds, and Interest collected and accrued thereon 11,938,147.07 Other U. 8. coin-inter-est bonds purchased, and accrued Interest thereon 15,110,590.00 Amount of public debt lea* cash In sinking fund and purchased bonds In Treasury $8,481,566,736.89 Amount of public debt less cash y , and sinking bind In the Treasury . on the Ist of July. 3,489,008,480.58 Decrease of public debt during the past month... $7,435,744.8# Decrease since March 1,1869 $43,896,583.78 The reduction would have been larger had hot th« government advanced to the Pacific Railroad during the month interest on their bonds to the amount of $1,630,861, and paid on the last day of the month an unusually large number of drafts, to ths amount of more than two and a half millions of dollars. Rumors of another Fenian invasion oi Canada were current in New York on the Slat ult., founded on the quantity of

arms, &c., about jhe .headquarters in that city. The French cable will be ready to commence business on the 15th Inst, with a reduction from the present rates of about twenty percent. The Secretary of the Treasury has instructed the Assistant Treasurer at New York to buy $2,000,000 of 5-20 s each week during August. This is in addition to the purcliases for the sinking fund .heretofore made on alternate weeks. A game of base-ball played in Chicago on the 81st ult., between the Forest City Club of Rockford, and the Red Stockings, of Cincinnati, resulted in a score of 53 for the latter to 32 for the former. Weston walked at Huntington, Ind., on the 81st ult., his feat being to walk fifty miles in ten hours, and a half a mile backwards, for $250. He came in five minutes ahead of the allotted time. A reward of $15,000 fa now offered for the capture of Sam. Hildebrand, the Mis souri outlaw. Superintendent Clapp, of the Government printing office, lias appointed two colored apprentices to learn the printing trade in that office. Secretary Boutwell has concluded to have a new issue of all denominations oi greenbacks, from one to the thousand dok lar notes. The plates are now being engraved from entirely new designs, at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. No likeness of any living man will be placed on any note.

The New York Sun of the 3d positively asserts that the Administration has opened negotiations with the present Government of Spain for the independence of Cuba, and that two bulky telegrams have been received at Washington from Gen. Sickles on the subject. The London Times of the 3d confirms the /SmtT rye port. The Secretary of tfie Treasury directs that no claims or applications hereafter made for refunding of taxes will be entitled to consideration by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, unless the same shall lie filed with the Commissioner within two years from the date of the payment of taxes; or in case of claims already accrued, within two years from tliis date. . A Washington^sratefeaf the 3d states that, the 111 |iiiliiiTmiililWis|Ki the Dominican Government and States, for the purchase of the Bay of Somalia, halve come to a successful conclusion.

A Washington telegram of the 4th says, “New developments are being made daily concerning the spurious ten dollar greenback. Two specimens received to-day bear witness that there are new issues, for all the defects previously referred to have been removed, and the general appearance of the notes so exactly corresponds with the genuine that it almost defies detection by professional experts.” The number of immigrants arrived at tlie port of New York this year t up to the 4th Inst., ia 168,064, an increase of 34,000 compared with the corresponding period ot last year. «•, .X T m Tlie Board of Health of MiW’ York city on the 4th seized several lqfa ojf kerosepe considered dangerous./two "more aeei dents, one fatal, from exploding Kerosene lamps, occurred the nigbtprerfeus. The Cuban Junta at New York, on the 4th, forwarded to the President and Secretary Fish a protest against the proposed purchase of Cuba from Spain. They allege that two-thirds of the island is owned by native Cubans^ The United States bonded warehouse on Lombard street wharf, Philadelphia, consisting of eight stores and containing 40,000 barrels of whisky and other property, valued at $10,006,000, was totally destroyed by fire on the night of the 4th Four children were killed by falling walls, and there were rumors of other fatal casualties.

There were 165 exhibitors personally present at tlie Exposition of Textile Fabrics at Cincinnati, distributed as follows: Ohio, 54; Illinois, 16; South Carolina, 3; Alabama, 6; Georgia, 14; Missouri, 1; Tennessee, 7; Indiana, 17; Kentucky, 15; lowa, 2; Mississippi, 2; Michigan, 1; Wisconsin, 2; New Jersey, 1; Rhode Island, 1; Massachusetts, 2; Pennsylvania, 11; New Yi>rk, 5. —- Receipts at the land office at Denver, Col., for July, were $530,798. A Washington telegram of the 6th says .- " Reports from the Indian country are all favorable for peace, and Commissioner Porter secs no reason to fear disturbance anywhere this’ fall" A memorial to Congress for the abolition of duties on coal is being extensively signed in New York.

PEBSuKAL. The Secretary of the Treasury left Washton on the Ist, for Croton, Mass., to be absent two weeks. Henry Keep, Esq., President of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company, died in New York city on the 30th ult. , Griffin, the engineer, who is charged with the blame of having caused the recent terrible disaster on the Erie Railroad, at Mast Hope, lias been admitted to bail in the sum of $6,000. The late Henry Keep left to hi* wife and daughter $8,000,000 worth of stock of the Northwestern Railroad, with in-s st ructions not to sell it, as it would pay better than any investment. President Grant and a large party proceeded, on invitation, on the 2d, to the residence of Robert Campbell, President of the Bricksbury Land Improvement Company, at Bricksbury, N. J., where the President was accorded $ hearty welcome by the citizens, and aftef"partaking of a collation, was presented with fifty acres of land.. I I The injunction issued again** further proceedings in the Bishop_ White house

versus Rev. Mr. Choney ecclesiastical trial, lias been sustained by Judge Jameson, of the Chicago Superior Court. The Committee of Ways and Means, ap pointed by Congress to inspect the Pacific States anij Territories, arrived in Chicago on their return trip, oft the 3d. President Grant, Secretary Fish anil Gen. Porter visited West Point on the 6th. Mr. Marißcal, the new Mexican Minis ter, and Mr. Palacio, the Mexican Commissioner, arrived iu New York city on the 6th, from Havana. Hon. Schuyler Colfax, Governor Bross and party, left Omaha for further West on the sth. The examination of the steamer Dubuque rioters closed at Rock Island, on the sth. Ten of them were held on the charge of murder. Three asked for a further hearing, and one was discharged, there not being sufficient testimony as to his taking an active part in the melee. Geh. Rosecrans, cx-United States Minister to Mexico, arrived in San Francisco on the 3d, and was serenaded by the Young Men’s Democratic Club.

POLITICAL. The Democratic State Convention of Massachusetts will meet in Worcester on the 24th inst. The Supreme Court of Louisiana has rendered two adverse decisions to the pjower exercised by the Governor of that Slate in removing State officers. The majority for the Virginia Constitution is 197,044, and the vote for it comprises the entire vote of all parties except about four per cent. The majority against the disfranchising clause is 39,957, and that against the test oath clause 40,992. A Louisvifie, Ky., telegram of the 2d says: “ Jas. W. Tate, Democratic candidate for State Treasurer, has a majority over his' Radical opponent, E. Rumsay Wing, in this city, of 5,059, Tate’s majority in the State is overwhelming, and will probably average 40,000 to 45,000. Returns from various sections of the State indicate the election of a large number of Democratic Legislative candidates. There will probably be but fifteen or twenty Republicans elected to the Legislature.” A Mobile dispatch of the 3d says: The .vote in this city for Congressman fa as follows: Mann, Conservative, 4,108; Ruck, Radical, 2,848. Mann’s majority, Prosequer, Democratic, is elected to the Legislature. Montgomery gives Buckley, Radical, for Congress, 8,082, and Worthy, Democrat, 1,015. Buckley’s majority 2.067.

The Republicans of Montana have nominated James Tufts for Delegate to Congress. He was Speaker of the first Legislature in Idaho, and has been acting Governor of Montana since Green Clay Smith resigned the place. Mr. Tuits fa a native >f New Hampshire. The Richmond Enquirer professes to iiave foil returns oi the members chosen 0 the Virginia Legislature. Its figures are 1 ifitfa: Wfiite Conservatives, 95; colored Conservatives, fi'; total vtfmc'Rftfiicafa, B 4; ttolored- Radicals; 18 ;’ t <Jta!, 48. Oite Mat itontestetL ‘ ‘ ! 1 The Vermont Council of Centers ‘re- • cjmundnd that the Constitutional ConvCE- ’ .ton, to atsemble ip February next, incorporate in the State Constitution an irticle permitting women to vote, and one providing for biennial sessions of the Legislature. j A Montgomery, Ala., dispatch of the 4tli says: “ Enough returns have been received to indicate the certain election of Parkinson, Democrat, by several hundred majority in the Third District. Bucklsy, Radical, is elected in this district.” . The National Union Republican party of Mississippi have called a nominating convention to assemble at Jackson on the Bth of September. According to the returns received on the morning of the 6th, from the Tennessee election, Sentcr has carried Western and Middle Tennessee by a sweeping majority, and probably the State by 40,000. The Conservatives will probably have a majority in both branches of the Legislature. D. C. Slaughter, Emerson Etheridge, Edmund Cooper and Bailie Peyton are elected to the State Senate. At Corimie, Utah, on the Bd, J. H. Rcadie, proprietor of the Daily Reporter, was elected to the Council, and Demis J. Loobey to the House of Representatives of the Utah Legislature, over Bishop Snow, of Ogden, and Wright, polygamists. This is the first defeat of Mormons at the ballot in that territory. A special dispatch from Helena, Montana, states that Hon. James M. Cavanaugh has been re-elected Delegate to Congress by a majority of 2,000.