Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1869 — Weekly News Summary. [ARTICLE]

Weekly News Summary.

j ■ POREieM . I General JUc-Bouf succuedsMarshal Nicl, The Regent Serrano positively.- denies that he sustains’thb y>rttfensfoft!J rif thft iw /tfpw Spaia,,Aud dcoUrQs tUa4,lu) ja mftttmi Oh tjiytplejtign of tfte disposal of the crown. " ‘ ‘ w of ffrc Spanish navy,i is dead. t ’ In Struck for high4|Hragcs, pjwservaofder is scSbWy t&eqlOppd; . ' La Ermu» (a Paris newspaper) 4>f-Ihe JJlst says’Guba 'ls- iosi to Spain, and, .-tho wisest-thing fjpaui eaq' do is iO.'.tiike advantage Of present sitsiliatfrm. A Madrid telegram of .the 22d says 'it was asserted hn reliable-tfnlhority that-fte pre liminAriqs of a- treaty fori tjie -cession of CvJiL (o the .United States had been signed. . ; . «■•'

Ren forth has won.tlic race for the championship of 'jhp ’fhhmhft, and r ßrown, the American i-oarsman, has-uhajieiiged the Wi nnpr... The match will comc’off between Bept._2B>pnd Oct. 1. An open-air meeting, attended by 20, : 000 persons,-was held at Drogheda, Irelahd, on the 23G, akwbich resolutions were passed declaring fjjat any farther detention of Fenian prisoners -bt- British jails was unwise, impon tie,* anoun just. Th® Bishop of Winchester has resigned. . Prince Arthur arrived at Halifax on the 23d, and his -appearance -djrew .a great crowd and much enthusiasm. Eugen® atKUthfo-Trince- ffnperittl were at Lyons, on the 24th v on their way to the East. -Recent details of the .epndition of the gfowipg grain crops in Greht Britain exhibit favorable promises of good returns, provided the late dry and 'Cool weather continued. L~~<y , **‘ , '~ r 'J l llV ' ■ ' The father of Ailelina and Carlotta Patti died in Paris, on tftc*§|4ijk A dispatch from; Koflg, August 3, ria London, states that the Chinese Government rcfudfe’rte fathy-fIM treaty conStates? -The Chinese text of Burlingame’s credentials tliffers from the foreign version. In the former‘lie is appointed." Envoy §f China to tribirtary nations.” It was reported on the 25th tliat sixteen hundred insurgents, With tpeir families, httl *' presented themselves before ttw Spanish authorities at Ilolquin, and ' asked forgiveness and protection. One million people witnessed the boat race on the Thames, on the 20th, between the Harvard and - Oxford crews. Oxford beat the Ilarvards, making four and a quarter miles jn jjj .njinutes and 20 3-5 seconds, and coming out four lengths ahead. News from Tripoli state that' two English ladies atttshdante were murderml by their "Own ctfrttebdrivers while tHvelfng south of that city. » The Empress and Prince Imperial arrived at Toulon on the 26th. Engenie has abandoned her trip to Jerusalem. .. - 1 ' The Agamemfitm, from Hankon, June 9, has arrived in England with the first cargo of tea of tlie seasttn. . The recent amnesty granted by Napoleon does not extend to those who have beeif convicted of an_Bttempt_to take the life of- the Empetor, or that of any otherpolitical person. .<- . - DOMESTIC. Fourteen cases »bf ■. sunstroke—five of tlienl fatal— York city on tire 21st. > . An order has been issued from the War Department forbidding residence of settlers on military ; reserviitionk. All intruders will be notified by the military commanders to leave the military reservations, and if they refuse to do so, they will be removed by force. A Rochester locksmith on the 21 st operated bn the lock-adopted by tfic Government' for’ its use in the Treasury Department at Washington, and succeeded in ripening the safe in the Supervising Architect’s office in seven minutes, and-afterwards aecmiqilfehed the same feat in twclvetminntafe ‘The telegraph says: “The process, it seems, is one known to a number of artisans, and after seeing the performance, those present ceased to wonder at the skillful bank robberies reported in New Jersey and New York ” .;

Three millions of gold were shipped from Nmv York city on Uic 21st to prominent San Franciscoffi(Xisbs,Tjy the Pacific road.' The National Labor Congress, in session at Philadelphia, adjourned on the 21 st. The officers for Vite -castling' year are: Richard Trevelhck," of Michigan, President; A. T. Cavis, - of Washington, First Vice-PreskkSit;’ Ctonriid Kuhn, of New ,Ydrlt, Bebobd Vi<*-Pr<wMcntf ■of PhiladeUMt, Bceretary? A. C. Pheltis.SwNew lijUgn, drew C. CaMnmMflrahiMgo, was tinanijnoupiy><jlected delegate to the European International Labor Congress, to be held at J^slfe,' on ttfejWtti-’of September. The neXCscssion of the Congress •will be held jri, Ojpciapati bn the third 'Monday of August, 1870.. Railroad freights from Now York to thq jVest were advanced on the J#d, as follows: Mileages 8&c; Cincinnati, 35c; Louisville, 500 ; and St. Louis,-56c per cwt. A Washington special of the 23d says:' “ A very/ large pumMr of soldiers’ dis-j charge papers are retained in the office of the Commissioner of Pensions. All the other'ftiHlift'hx.’turn them after acting upon the case which they accompany. After their final action in tlie Pension Bureau they are retained, but can be obtained by direct application to the Commissioner. Those signing their letters by mark must

have it witnessed by two persons, and verified by some officer having a seal.” A death from Asiatic cholera was reported in New York city on the 28d. A cattle disease has appeared at Shrewsbury, Mass. The bronchial tubes of slaughtered animals are filled with threadlike worms. 'General Ames, Mississippi; has issued an order to the commanders of military post® directing them not to obey in future any writ of habeas corpus issued by the United States District Court and Circuit Court, or any order made by such court for the release of prisoners in their custody, but should any such writ or order be served upon them, to report the fact to him by telegraph. A Philadelphia dispatch of the 23d says not a drop of water had fallen there Since August 4, the night of the great whisky fire, nor had any account® of rain been .received from the interior, except of a short thunder-storm on the 21st, about thirty miles up the Schuylkill. All reports agrfecd as to great damage to com from drought in Pennsylvania. The scarcity of waler in the reservoirs in Philadelphia was causing great inconvenience. The City Council had appropriated $25,000 for the relief of the families of destitute canal boatmen out of employment on account of the drought. Reports from all sections of Maryland on the 23d represent drought as prevailing to an alarming extent. No rain had fallen for weekg in some counties. Farmers despair of making even half a crop of corn, and the potato vines had become parched and dried up before maturity. The tobatco crop was also suffering severely. Accounts from the tobacco-grow-ing regions of Kentucky state that but half the Crop produced last year will be raised this year, on account of the intense heat and the parching drought. Corn is almost shriveled. The first bale of new State hops was in the New York market on the 24th. The steamboats Evening Star and War Eagle were burned at the St. Louis levee on the 24th. Vincent Collyer telegraphs from San Francisco that if Governor Mitchell’s proclamation, declaring the Navajoes outlaws, be enforced it will break up the agency and school at Fort Defiance, as there arc no United States troops nearer than Fort Wingate, 40 miles distant. Hon. James W. Fizgcrald, of Cincinnati, has obtained a temporary injunction restraining the New York holders of the Fenian fund from any further disposition thereof He claims $5,000 of the money, as a contributor. A convention of colored mechanics is called to meet in Macon, Ga., in October, to devise means for emigration to the Northwestern States and Territories. A letter was received at the White House in Washington, on the 25th, from Paris, written by a Frenchman, asking permission to establish a gambling house in New York city, to be regularly licensed, and placed under surveillance of the police, to contribute a portion of its profits to the Government and be managed in all respects like the gambling houses of Baden Baden and Weisbaden. Preliminary steps for founding a commercial college for colored men have been taken at Washington, and it is proposed eventually to extend the movement all “over the country. • , ■ The Secretary of the Interior has ordered that hereafter all Indian claims—for bounty, pensions, damages for depredations, &c.—must be settled through the Indian Bureau. A Washington dispatch says the demands on the Treasury for fractional currency are so great and the amounts required so large that to supply them would necessitate tlw issue of currency at the rate of $200,000 a day for a year to come. In the recent suit at Erie, Pa., of the Bepublican office against the Erie Typographical Union for conspiracy and libel, the grand jury returned “ not a true bill ” in both cases. The general coal agentof the Delaware Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company announced officially on the 26th that the striking miners at Scranton would go to work at once. Two miles of snow sheds on the Central Pacific Railroad between Casco and the Summit, were destroyed by fire on the night of the 24th, supposed to haVe bcefi set by tin incediary.

A base-ball match at Cincinnati on the 26th, between the Red Stockings, of that city, and the Haymakers, of Lansinghurg, I N. Y., ended in a quarrel after the fifth inning, when the score stood 17 to 17. The President of the Haymakers took umbrage at a decision of the umpire, and ordered the club to cease playing. The game was declared in favor of the Red Stockings. The century plant, of Rochester, N. Y., has been removed to Chicago, and is on exhibition in the latter city, under the auspices of the Young Men’s Christian Association. The Washington authorities disbelieve the news of the rejection of the Burlingame treaty by the Chinese Government, telegraphed to London from Hong Kong. Customs receipts for the week ending August 21, were $4,386,920. „ v ' '• A Washington special of the 26th says the accounts from the "growing crops, received at the Agricultural Depart me nt, are of a very favorable character. The cotton crop is estimated at nearly 3,000,000 bales. J The t reports received at the Department since the Ist of August, indicate a decrease of the corn crop in comparison with the product of 1868. At tho'Rc-union at Gettysburg, Pa., on the 26th,,the day wfls devoted to determining the position of various corps engaged in the battle at that point. The telegraph says: 11 The marble statue, representing

‘ Plenty,’ was to.bq placed on the monument ,in the Soldiers' Cemetery. The remaining corner will be occupied by that of ‘Peace.’ The statues of‘War’ and ‘ History ’ have, for sime tiihfi, been in position.” ~ t ’i i PERSONAL. ' * ’J • President Grant wks received by the Newport municipal Atafhorities, at Uhe State Houst*,' on the 21st. In the afternoon, a brilliant reception Was fibld in his honor'at the villa bf Morgan. . . . : A Rochester, N, Y-, telegram announces the marriage, at London, Canada, on th® 21gt, of Commodore Vanderbilt and Miss Frank Crawford, daughter of Robert L. Crawford, of Mobile, Alabamar— Father McMahori, so l long held as a Fen ian ooh Viet by the Canadian authorities, arrived at Buffalo on the 24th. GoV; A. Mowbray and Col. John B. Brownlow, !of Tennessee, were in Washington on the 24Gm» route for New York. Governor Senter, wpuld'xejurn.to Washington in a few days, for the purpose of calling on President. Grant,. ,' . 1 President Grant attended, the reunion of the Grand Army of the licpublic, on the 24th, at Ocean Cottage, three miles below Providence,’ ! R. I. Secretary Boutwell, Senator Morgan and wjfe, Senator Anthony, and Other distinguished parties were also present at the Cottage. Both candidates for Congress in New Mexico, J. Francisco Chavez, Republican, and Vincente Romero, Democrat, are native Mexicans. Ex-Secretary Stanton was recently at Wolfboro, N, IJ., much improved in health. President Grant arrived in Concord, N. 11., on the 25tlx lion. David McDonald, Judge of the United States District‘Cdui-t es Indiana, died at" his resident* in Indianapolis, on the 25th. He was in his 65th year. John Durivage, an old actor and new* paper man, died in Memphis on the 27th. Ho was one of the founders Of the Alta Californian, at San Francisoo. Horace Greeley will deliver the opening address before the International Industrial Exhibition at Buffalo, October 6. ’' l ! Secretary Rawlins arrived in Washington from Danbury on the S?sfb, and was soon after attacked by a Severe hemorrhage of the'lungs. Hfi was' improving on the 26th. ' • - President Grant and party left Ooncotd, N. H., for White Mountains Oh thi mortling of the 26th. ... ! -'' r POLITICAL. The Massachusetts Republican Convefition for nominating'State officers will be held at Worcester,’ September 22. Walker’s official majority for Governor in Virginia is 18,319. The Massachusetts Democratic State Convention met at Worcester on the 24th, and nominated John Quincy Adams for. Governor, and S. O. Lamb, of for Lieutenant-Governor. v The records of the State Department at W ashington show the foi io wing regarding State action on the FiffGentfi. Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Complete ratification: North Carolina, West Virginia, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Maine, Louisiana, Michigan, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida—l 2. Defective ratification— Kansas, Missouri—2. Rejected in Delaware and Kentucky. The New York* Republican State Crin» vention will be held at Syracuse, September 29. : . In the first conviction under the new Massachusetts Prohibitory Boston on the 20tb, the fine imposcd,was $l5O and costs. The Minnesota Republican State Cqn* vention will be held at St. Paul on September 9. The Democratic State Convention will be held September 23. The Temperance party of Connecticut are to run a separate ticket, and Mr. Parker of Meriden, will bo their candidate for Govefnoi*.