Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1869 — Weekly News Summary. [ARTICLE]

Weekly News Summary.

■■ FOREIftN. A London disnatch oftho 25th says that Information'received ffom pellablo sources In Madrid states that Gen, Sickles’ tot* to Scfrhno and the other Spanish Ministers amounted U> -a sihlplo declaration that the United States Government may withdraw its offer of friendly mediation between Spain and tlitf Cuban Insurgents, leaving the rcSjjotiWbilityi' as Welt as the consequanoes which may ensue, on Spain herself. Thpmas ad.vlpe? of September 18th say there were three shocks of earthquake' on tM- {hfiViosa day. Tho stora?-Were closecTand Dusfness was suspended. No lives were lost as far, as known, A Florence telegram of EepUmber 27th announces that Mount Astna was in a state of violent eruption. 6treams of lava were pouring flour tlie tratfirtp tile Valduc. A dispatch from St. John, N. F., September 27, contains intelligence of the return of the expedition of Dr. Hayes and Bradford, the artist, from the Arctic Regions. They penetrated the middle ice, in which tho British whaler Alexandria was crushed and lost. Her crew was saved. The expedition was successful in every object. A statement that Gen. Jordan had offered to surrender himself and troops to the Spanish authorities, on the payment to him of a certain sum of money, is reiterated in a dispatch from Havana on the 27th. Reinforcements for the Spanish army in Cuba sailed from Cadiz on the 28th. Tworthieda of the town of Port Dalhousic, Canada, was burned on the 28th. Total loss, $40,000. The King of Portugal has publicly contradicted the tumor of his candidature for the throne of Spain. A New York telegram of the 28th says that. Scnor Lemus, the Cuban Minister, states that there is not a single sentence in the Cuban Constitution which contemplates anything but absolute and unequivocal freedom to the slaves of the island.

A fire broke out among the shipping at Bordeaux, France, on the morning of the 28th, and before it was subdued fifteen vessels laden with petroleum were consumed. Advieei from Paraguay up to August 22 state that Lopoz had been defeated in two severe.engagements, and had fled with a remnant of his army. In the first engagement the Paraguayans loet 1,000 in killed, 300 prisoners and 12 cannon; in the second battle they were Utterly routed, losing 25 cannon, and being compelled to abandon all thoirateamers,.which fell into 'the hands of the Allies. The Provisional Government of Asuncion hail declared Lopez an outlaw. Nfiws from Rio Janeiro to September 7th ftilly confirms the flight of Lopez. The Princo and Princess of Wales arrived in Paris on the 29th ult., and were received by the Emperor. The mediation of the Great Powers of Europe in the differences between Turkey and Bggrpt has been Successful. It Was again Sported in official circles at Madrid on tlie 29th ult. that the recent note of Gert. Sickles had been withdrawn. The London Times’ Paris correspondent of the 29th ult- asserts thpt “there is but little hope of a coraweamtsq between Spain 'antT {life Cubank The sentiments' of bdth parties are heard here. The Spanish Government says, in so many words, Lay down yotW arms, and send Deputies to the Cortes. 1 If you will be as Canada, we are willing ;rif iyou desire independence, we don’t say np. The matter may be arranged. But disarm. Spain’s motio is notliJng'butHWmpulsion.’’'' j The great hippodrome Jar Paris was destroyed by fire on the night of the 29th Ult. The Empress of the French left Paris on the 30th ult,, on h6r Eastern tour. According to a late census, the population of Mexico is 8,567,000. The first Cafgd of the new crop of Chinese tea arrived in London on the Ist.

i DOMESTIC. Gold closed in New York on the 29th ult. at 180*|. • Receipts of fractional' Currency for the week ending September 25, $1,024,500; shipments, #937,441; redeemed, $204,700. Bqnk .currency issued. $241,580; actual Circulation, $290,768;410. It is stated that at the Cabinet meeting nb conclusion was rqaqhed on ‘the Cuban question, and. it was believed that settop on Uia-ppbjcct The Assistant Treasurer lit New York has been authorized to sell $1,000,000 of gold each Tuesday* and Friday till November 1; also to purchase $2,000,000 of bonds eacli Wednesday till November 1— those sales and purchases to bo in addition to those already ordered on account of the sinking fhnd. ' A sad accidelfti fXisurred at Niagara . TP#* °» **&'*'> carriage containing four ladles was upset over a bank and fell some fifty feet, killing one and dangerously wppndingthe others. Tliere was great excitement in Wall street, New Yank, on the* 84th, and gold went urn with eturtllim rapidity toIOP but 'fcUdß&fy declined to II%IM in the afternoon. ■ Bcvpral speculators had theu .fingers badly burned. On the night of September 20th Ice fSifmed cf an Inch thick Paul, Minnesota. '• ■' The destruction by firo of the Hope T?ott(Vrj kills; ftt Oltjr, Pa., of omployinent, i<. A heavy frost Is reported at Nashville mt the morning of tho «7Ui, but no serious dAmnigd was caused. " •j>‘ ’ . Iu pf thk m the property of the United States at Harper's Ferry and vicinity is to be sold on the 30th of November.

Tlie Ohio Reform and Industrial School for girls is to be opened on the 15th ol October. The official returns of the passengers arriving in tlie United States during the quartet endidg with June, show an extraordinary increase. The whole number is 177,582, of whom nearly 66,000 were females/ , The new building of the National Military Asylum, located at Milwaukee, was dedicated on the 27th. An address was delivered by Gen. B. F. Butler, who is one of tho Board of The accommodations of the building, are sufficient to contain comfortably five hundred Inmates. The nnffibep'-of soldiers now in the Asylum is 247. . . > One of the Miami powder mills, five mile? north of Xenia, Ohio, exploded o” the 27th, killing a colored employe named Thurston, prostrating five buildings and injuring some dwellings. The telegraph wires were torn down. .. The wheat crop of Montana is estimated at 55,000 bushels. The New York Commercial of the 29th ult. asserts that the steamship Alabama went to sea' on the 26th with 26J volunteers for Cuba. The New York Express of the 30th says it is estimated that the depreciation .in- the price of gold and securities dealt in offl the New York Stock Exchange since the previous Thursday would reach $100,000,000 in currency.. Many men had been reduced from affiftenoa'to poverty.

The government coffer-dam at Moline gave way on the morning of the 30th ult. About IRO feet of the embankment washed out, causing a loss of at least $150,000, at the. same time putting the work back a year. Customs receipts for week ending September 25, $3,910,198. 'An official proclamation bas been issued of the convention between the United States and Hesse-Darmstadt, regulating citizenship on the basis of naturalization as with the North German Confederation The tobacco crop in the vicinity of Cincinnati, in Ohio and Kentucky, has been injured by frosts. A terrible boiler explosion occurred on the Indiana State Fair Grounds, at Indianapolis, on the afternoon of the Ist, by which nineteen persons lost Ihejr lives, and nearly onc.hupdred were more or less injured. The boiler was attached to a saw-mill of Messra Sinker & Co., of Indianapolis, and had just been fired up for a test of speed with another sawing machine.' The National Bank of Norwalk’ Conn., was robbed of $30,000 by burglars on the night of the 30th ult. The race for double teams, at Mystic Park, Boston, on the 30th ult, for a purse of SI,OOO, was won by Honest Allen and mate, in 2:31, 2:32, and 2:29% —said to be the fastest time on record for double team trotters.

The following is a synopsis of the public debt statement for October, as published on tlfclst inst.: Debt bearing Interest in coin $2,107,936,800 00 Interest 43,123,600 38 Debt bearing Inter-. estln law fultuouey 61.543,000 00 Interest.-. . ->.. 1,143,263 60 Debt on which Interest Uaseonseil since maturity..4,632,696-to ... Interest 630,774 63 Debt bearing uq interest....?. Total, debt, prfncrlfwd and intcrost... $1,631,008,©H OO Amount in tho Treasury: C0in......'. $193,864,668 81 - Currency 6,548,004 18 Sinking fund in U. 8. cpin-mterest bunds, and Interest collected and accrued thereon 16,125,138 55 Othor U. 8. coin-inter-est bonds purchased, and accrued interest V thereon 34,625,002 60 * Total •! *166,114,783 99 Debt, less amount in the Treaaury. 3,4G3,486,072 11 Debt, lesa amount in tbe Treasury on tho Ist ult. 2,475,902,501 50 Decrease of public debt daring the past month. __ '*7,467,429 30 Decrease since March I, 1869 *50,908,187 #0 PERSONAL. . The Oindnnati’Commercial party have arrived at Baa Francisco, and were warmly received. In the cAse of James Griffin, engineer, indicted for causing the railroad disaster At Mast Hope, on the Erie Railroad, the jury returned* verdict of not under the laws of Pennsylvania. The defendant Was refiuirod to pay the costs of the trial. The announcement of the verdict was received with applause by the friends, of Griffin. , Dr, C, F. Hall, the Arctic explorer, with two Esquimaux and their daughters, reached New Bedford, Mass., on the 26th. After five years’ residence in the Arctic regions ha brings homo interesting yet sad intelligence of the fete of Sir John Fn»nklin anj bis party, and conclusive proot tlmt none of them ever reached Montreal Island. lie was successful in finding the skeletons of many of Franklin’s men, as well as remains of his boats lie saw natives who were the last - to look upon Crozioc-and his party. Prince Arthur and the Governor General of Canada visited Buffalo on.the 27th, drove about .the city, nod lunched with ex-Presldent Fillmore, Wm. Whist has been appointed Register Of the Land Offloo at SooueviUc, Ma Jefferson Davis sailed from England for tho United States on the, 25th. Fred. K. Lowe, of California, has been appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to China. ’ The National Grand Lodge df Odd Fellows, in session in San Francisco, adjourned on tho 27th, Grand Sire Farnsworth wajyircsented with a diamond ring set in gold* from filings from the Pacific railroad “ last spike,” and Grand Secretary Rigoloy was presented with a handsome cane. Geft, Peabody sailed for Europe on the 29th ult. Wm. A. Richardson has resigned the

position of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. The following appointments wero made on tho 29fli ult.: Postmasters—W. H. Muerbers, St. Charles, Mo.; Jay J. Drake, St. Joseph, Mich.; Edward S. Jewett, Niles, Mich. Joseph M. Orr is appointed United States Marshal for Utah. Mr. John Bigelow bas resigned the editorship of the N. Y. Times, and.Frcdcrick Hudson, late of the Herald, Is to be managing editor. The Colfax party left San Francisco for the East on the 29th ult. They would remain at Balt Lake a few clays. The N. Y. Sun of the 30th ult. publishes a letter from Geo. Wm. Curtis, declining the Republican nomination for Secretary of State. Mr. Seward and party left San Francisco on the 80th, by steamer, en route for the City of Mexico. On the same day Gen. Geo. H. Thomas and Admiral Farragut left for the East. Hon. Isaac Jenkinson, of the Fort Wayne (Ind.) Gasette, has accepted the appointment of United States Consul at Glasgow, Scotland. F. M. Blair, editor of the Masonic Home Advocate, and formerly Grand Master of Illinois, died at Indianapolis on the night of the 29th ult. The President has recognized Casper Ritchie as Vice Consul of the Swiss Confederation for Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky, to reside in Cincinnati; also Peter Staub as Consular Agent of the Swiss Confederation for Tennessee, to reside at Knoxville.

POLITICAL. A Nashville, Tenn., dispatch of the 25th says: “The municipal election to-day passed off quietly. Returns are complete. The majority of Morrill, the Conservative candidate for Mayor, will be about 2,500. The Conservative ticket for Aldermen and Councilmen is also elected by a decided majority.” The lowa Democratic State Central Committee have nominated H. O. Dayton, of Lansing, as their candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction, vice Edmund Jaeger, declined. The Minnesota Democratic State Convention on the 23d nominated the following ticket: Governor, George L. Otis, of Ramsey County; Lieutenant Governor, J. A. Wiswell, of Blue Earth County; Secretary of State, T. G. Fladcland, of Fillmore County; Auditor, Louis A. Evans, of Stearns County; Attorney General, Seagrave Smith, of Dakota County; State Treasurer, Casper Babriech, of Brown County; Chief Justice, Chas. E. Flandreau, of Hennepin County; Clerk of the Supreme Court, W. T. Braneweil, of McLeod County. Mr. Johnson, Conservative, was, on the 28th, elected to the Virginia Legislature from Alexandria Co., by a majority of 69. The Mississippi Republican State Convention, in session at Jackson on the 29th ult, nominated Gen. Alcorn for Governor, R. C. Powers for LieutenantGovernor, and Bishop James Lynch (colored) for Secretary of State. Attorney-General Hoar has given his opinion upon the oower of the Virginia Legislature to elect United States Senators, and says they can do so after organizing, as such action is not regarded as Legislative business, and will therefore be legal, The Republican State Convention of New York, in session at Syracuse on the 29th ult., nominated the following ticket: Secretary of State, George William Curtis; Comptroller, Thomas Hillhouse; State Engineer, Gen. John C. Robinson; Treasurer, Thomas S. Chatfleld; AttorneyGeneral, Martinl. Townsend ;‘State Prison Inspector, Daniel D. Conover; Judges of the Court of Appeals, Woodruff and Mason, the present incumbents.

This fall State elections will take place as follows : Indiana Oct. 12 Kannas Not. 2 lowa Oct. 1* Maryland Nov. 2 Nebraska Oct. 12 Massachusetts Nov. 2 Ohio Oct. lSiMlchigan Nov. 2 Pannsvlvania Oct. 12 Minnesota Nor. 2 West Virginia Oct. 12 Mlsaouri Nov. 2 Arkansas Nov. I.Nevada ,Nov. 2 Louisiana Nov .. 'New Jersey Nor. 2 Alabama Nov. 2 New York Nov. 2 Florida Nov. 2.Wisconsin .Nov. 2 Illinois Nov. 2|Soulh Carolina... Nov. 22 A special from Bronham, Texas, on the 39th nit., states that the editors of the Democratic newspapers in convention had nominated Hamilton Stuart, of Galveston, for Governor, and he had accepted. A full straight-out Democratic ticket would be put forward. The newspapers were pledged for their support. The election in Mississippi will be held on November 80 and December 1. A special dispatch from Houston, Texas, on the Ist, says the so-called Democratic Convention at Brenham consisted of five editors. The Democratic party, through its Executive Committed, refused to call a convention or make any nomination for Governor. Tho Democratic party ofj Texas has no sympathy or connection with this move. —A correspondent, writing of the Avondale disaster, speaks of one woman who, looking from her cottage door, beheld the awful doom to which that fire consigned the husband of her heart, her thfte sons, three brothers, and a father. Ho saw this horribly afflicted woman the day the dead bodies wore drawn from the mine, sitting by the wayside, removed from the throng of the other mourners. She had a fair, round face, and large, lustrous eyes. Her dress was decent, and In. her demeanor nothing unusual presented .itself to the passing observer; but on near approach, the deathlike pallor of the features, the unearthly glare of her dried-up eyes, and the fixed, statue-like position of tho body, told of a grief too deSp for team. ■. ■■ A Mr. Moojue recently received $1,300 from the city of Alton, HI., as damages received from falling through a defective sidewalk and breaking his leg. [y ■ > am ’* > ; ■ —There are no less than 300,000 white men throughout the South enraged in cultivating cotton with their own "hands.