Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1869 — Weekly News Summary. [ARTICLE]

Weekly News Summary.

FOREIGN. Mr, Burlingame has received a dispatch from Prlnde Rung, expressing the entire satisfaction of the Chinese Government with the treaty between that countfy and the United States, -apd announcing fits early ratification. Advices received in Havana from Port au Prince to the 29th ult. state that an engagement before Aux i Cayes tbok'pl&co on the 22d, when Salnave was defeated and dangerously wounded. The news further states that Salnave had issued a proclamation declaring his abandonment of (he cause for which he ho# so long struggled. The rebels were meeting with success everywhere. The French Senate on the Cth adopted the Senatus Conspltum, by a vote jof 134 to 3. Madrid dispatches on the 7th State that the last Carlist band known to be on Spanish soil had been defeated by the national troops, hear Gerona. Tho Paris Journal Offieiel of the 7th says the Emperor Napoleon attended to public affairs daily, and at no time had his condition been such as to cause the least anxiety. , The-cotton crop in the interior of Egypt is reported as excellent in qualify and quantity. The Boston Peace Jubilee is to-be reproduced at the Crystal Palace, Lpndon. The Emperor Napoleon arrived in Paris on the evening of the 10th, and afterward returned to St. Cloud. He was in improved health. DOMESTIC. Receipts of fractional currency-for week ending September 4, $271,000; shipments, $109.000; redeemed and destroyed, $294,200. National bank circulation outstanding, $399,737,600. A destructive conflagration occurred at Goldsboro, N. C., on the night of the 4th, by which tho Wayne House, Masonie Hall, lumber yards, and ten warehouses- were destroyed. Loss $135,000. The offices of the Messenger and Poet newspaper? were also destroyed. They will cation soon. -t Ex-Secretary Seward’s speech at Sitka has been published. He gives a complete review of tba tesources and productions of the new Territory, expresses sanguine hopes of the future prosperity of Alaska, and says the people need a ’Territorial Government. The jury in the case of McCoy, & Co., distillers, of Omaha, have brought in a verdict confiscating all the property, owned by the firm, amounting to nearly $30,000, for defrauding the Government. A fire in Richmond, Va.,on the-night of the 6th destroyed property to the value of $300,000. rt ' l ’ The news, on the 6th from along the Arkansas and White rivers says the cotton crops arc splendid, and the balls are opening finely. From along the' Mississippi for two hundred- miles below Memphis, the drought has cut Off thd crop onethird. The yijuss bolls were si bedding off, and only the lower or bottom! ball Will mature. A fire broke out on the morning of the 6th, at a coal shaft near Plymouth, Pa., which burned the out buildings and hoisting apparatus, thereby cutting off the escape of over 200 miners at work below. It took all day to clear away the burned debris which fell into the shaft, and at 10 o’clock at night two men descended, who perished while endeavoring to open a gangway door. Two other miners, who descended afterward, were driven back by sulphurous fumes, and it was feared the 200 men shut up in the mine had perished. James J. Brooks, a United States detective officer at Philadelphia, was shot through the lungs on the 6th, in revenge, it was supposed, for his successful efforts in detecting revenue frauds. The Treasury Department at Washington has decided to offer a reward of $5,000 for the apprehension of the murderer. The news on the 7th from the coal mine disaster near Plymouth, Pa., is to the effect that thousands of miners, women and children covered the hills and grounds in the vicinity, and subscriptions were being raised for the relief of the widows and orphans, who number over 600. Several exploring parties descended to the bottom of the shaft, and penetrated quite a distance along one of the passages, but the gas and damp drove them back. As the gas was so strong, no attempt could be made to reach the main door or penetrate the mine until the outer gangway was cleared of gas. There was no ground to hope that a single one of the 202 men in the mine was alive. The New England Agricultural Fair opened, at Portland, Me., on,tha 7th, with large contribution* from Now England and Canada. The Mississippi Valley Commercial 1 Convention, In suasion at Keokuk, on the ,Bth, made a permanent' by 'electing Gen. VKade^ere/of' Dubuque, President) and a;lon^ito dent* and Secretaries. Sitttfdmgeorauffttees on Use MilMßippi Rltak and ftairibu-t tariffs, on of tin* National Capital, anilo* immigration were appointed. Resolutions iq fltvor of refJxoying the^atlonafClftiwai to some point in the Mississippi Valley were tabled. Ti i • Th j’ Allen tow* (Pa.) Tr»n "Works were IburaniLo» the TSh, invofcriag.a Jow-oL 1300,000, % *15,000 wages every nuanlh,/Mad by .then destruction one thousand men are thrown out of employment. On the 8th the bodies of the victims of the Avondale mine disaster, near Plymouth, Pa., were discovered, piled up together in the east side of the plane. The bodies were removed as rapidly as pos-

sible, and up to 7:15 p. m. sixty had been raiscd. Relief subscriptions were received as follows: $5,000 from New York Board of Brokers, $2,500 from Asa Packer, and $500 from Governor Geary. The Cincinnati Old School Presbytery, at tho meeting which closed on the 6tli, ratified unanimously the plan of the General Assembly on the subject of reunion. No public business of any kind was transacted in Washington on tho Bth. The news oi the death of Senator Fesssnden added to the gloom occasioned by that of Secretary Rawlins. A Helena telegram reports that the coach Which started on the 4th for Corinne was stopped about midnight, on the evening of the 6th, fifty aniles north of Corinne, by robbers, who quietly secured the driver and obtained possession of about tfiijfy thousand dollars’ worth of gold bars. They afterwards caused the passengers to give up their arms and about two thousand dollars in currency.The coadh Avas then allowed to proceed. The twenty-eighth annual session of the lowa Universalist Convention assembled in Des Moines on the Bth. In the Mississippi Valley Commercial Convention on the 9th the resolutions in favor of the removal of the National Capital were taken up and passed. One hundred and eight dead bodies had been taken out of the Avondale mine on the 9th, and it was thought this comprised all who had perished in the disaster. A terrific storm visited the New England coast, from Providence to Portland, on the afternoon and. night of the Bth, doing immense damage to property and causing a large loss of life. Everywhere church steeples and elevated structures were blOAvn down or otherwise injured, and, the loss of crafts' at sea is known- to have been general and sevem The Boston Coliseum was partially destroyed. The damage to shrubbery, fruit trees and crops is immense in all directions. Receipts of customs for week ending September 4, $4,242,763. A locomotive on the Erie Railroad, near Port Jarvis, exploded its boiler on the evening of the 9th, killing the engineer, fireman, flagman, and brakeman. The engine was biown to pieces. PERSONAL. Ex-Governor Worth died at Raleigh, N. C., on the night of the sth. President Grant’s family arrived in New York on the 6th, and would remain there until Ills return from Washington. The resignation of Senator Grimes, of lowa, to take effect December 15, has been received by Governor Merrill. Secretary John A Rawlins died at Washington at four o’clock and twelve minutes 6n the afternoon of the 6th. President Grant did not reach Washington until nearly five p. m. He was much affected while gazing upon tho lifeless form of his friend, and expressed deep regret that owing to- the non-delivery of tele grams at Saratoga, lie tfas prevented from sooner starting for Washington. The final interviews between Mr. Rawlins and many of his friends were very affecting. President Grant lias appointed Gen. Sherman to act as Secretary of War until the A T acant Secretaryship is filled. The telegraph states .that it is not the intention of the President to make an appointment as successor to the late Secretary Rawlins for some time to come —probably not until the assembling of Congress, and Gen. Sherman proposes to act in that capacity, and draw his salary as General, leaving the sajqry offjecretery of Was tq lie appropriate by tfongress to the AVidow of the late Secretary. The body of Secretary Rawlins was lying in state at the War Department on the 7th. National flags were displayed at halfmast over all the Departments and elsewhere throughout Washington. The interment was announced to take place on tlw morpjiig oifUjp 9th'„ Palmer, of Illinois,telegraphod to W asliington proposing to inter the remains in Oak Ridge Cemetery, at Springfield, where Abraham Lincoln is buried. The parents of the deceased Secretary desired his remains to be brought home to Galena. At a meeting of New, York qtizens on the 7th a proposition to ' huso ’530,000 for Mrs. Rawlins was carried nem con., and $15,000 subscribed on the spot. General Grant giy.es SI,OOO pf Vice-Pf esMcnt COlfaJx afrit party reached Portland, Oregon, on the oth. Governor Seward was at Salem, Oregon. A received aft Detroit on the 7th, from M T - FoWell, of the Pfrwell Expo dit ion, announces his safe arrival at Fort George, Utah, and says thu«pedition has bee* sucoMsSL»/ 4 t. Senator Fessenden died at Portland, Me., atj 6:30 6* ftlte tntrfjilng of the 8(h. He was sensible until Wiflyln an heur of his death hail passed » comfortable night until 3 o'clock. The New York fund'fbT’the benefit ol thjß irttof md etuldre* afzjOeAßawllns amounted lo $24,3d0 Cnthc wth. The Stock Exchange gqve SS,OO<V V. /; f Tlier ceremonies OF commencing workon the Lincoln Monument at Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, 111,, came off on the 9tb. Hon. John Bell, of Tennessee, died on the 10th, at his residence at Cmnherland Iron Works, near Nashville. He died froarSUfibqMioiij bcfcgftfoo tb throw off the accumulated sputum hi the lungs. _ The Seward-party; left Portland, Oregon, for San Francisco, otitic 10th, Eben RhoAdes, pf, died suddenly at pan Francisco on. the 10th. Charles H. WrigW, City Editor of'the Chicago Jltoe*, iu«|djfc^lj <si tbe.lOth, of diseaseof the heart i - , ’ The funeral ceremonies of Gen. Rawlias, atWaahtngten w tth, *ere of a.

most imposing character. There was a total suspension of business. Tho widow and fumily arrived in time to take a final look before the body was committed to the tomb. A plaster cast of the face of the corpse was taken at the cemetery on tho 10th. James M. Clark has been appointed Judge of tho District Court of Rhode Island. Mrs. G. neral Rawlins, accompanted by her parents and her three children, left Washington for New York on the 10th. She was in very feeble health. Gen. Sherman lias been commissioned Secretary of War pro temjm-e. President Grant arrived in New York on the morning of the 10th. Tho New York subscriptions for Mrs. Rawlins exceeded $37,000 on the 10th. POLITICAL. Mayor McCoppin and other Democratic candidates in San Francisco have appeared before the Board of Supervisors, and demanded a recount of the votes, claiming fraud made in the count by the Commissioners. At the election in Wyoming Territory on the 2d, Stephen F. Nuckolls, Democrat, was elected delegate to Congress, over W. W. Corlctt, Republican. A Burlington, Vt., dispatch of the Bth says: General Washburne and the Republican State ticket are elected by from 19,000 to 20,000 majority. Tho Senate is unanimously Republican. We have returns 0f46 Republicans and four Democrats elected to the House.” The Wisconsin Democratic State Convention met at Milwaukee on the Bth and nominated: C. D. Robinson, of .Green Bay, for Governor; G. L. Park, of Stevens Point, Lieutenant Governor; A. G. Cook, of Columbus, State Secretary; John Black, of Milwaukee, State Treasurer; S. W. Penney, of Madison, Attorney General; Carl Burdeau, of Waukesha, State Prison Commissioner; Peter J. Gannon,.of Cedaraburg, Superintendent of Public Instruction. A Montpelier dispatch of the Bth says the New Vermont House of Representatives will be composed of 200 Republicans to 30 Democrats. The National Union Convention of Mississippi, which met at Jackson on the Bth, nominated Judge Lewis Dent lor Governor; Judge Jefferds for Lieutenant Governor; J. L. Wafford for Congress, in the First District; Judge William Kellogg in the Third; Judge Joseph W. Field ih the Fourth. An election for city officers, in Wilmington, Del, on the 7th, resulted in the re-election of Valentine, Republican, for Mayor. The Republicans also elected a majority in the City Council. * Chaves, Republican, has been elected Delegate to Congress from New Mexico. Gov. Wells, of Virginia, sent his resignation to Gen. Canby on the reception, of Attorney-General Hoar’s opinion on the test-oath question.

General Canby issued a proclamation on the 9th announcing the result of the election in Virginia. Albert C. Walker Avill be installed as Provisional Governor on the 21st inst., and John V. Lomis as Provisional Lieutenant Governor on the sth of October. The Legislature will be called together October 5. The adoption of the expurgated constitution is announced. The following Wells’ Congressmen are proclaimed elect: Ayer, Platt and Porter ; and the following Walker Congressmen : Seagcr, at large, Booker, Ridgeway, McKenzie, Millner and Gibson. The National Union Convention of Mississippi completed its State ticket on the 9th, as follows: Thomas Sinclair, colored, for Secretary of State; A. W. Wills, Auditor; James McElroy, Treasurer; It. H. Lowry, Attorney General; Thomas J. Gathright, Superintendent of Education, and L. D. Brown, for Congress in the Fifth District. The Republican State Convention of Minnesota on the 9th nominated Judge Horace Austin, of St. Peter, for Governor, and C. S. Ripley, of Chatfield, for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The Virginia Republican State Central Committee has called a State Convention to meet on the 24th of November. Samuel Scott, of Dayton, has been selected as the Temperance candidate for Governor of Ohio, in place of J. E. Ingersoll, declined.