Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1869 — Weekly News Summary. [ARTICLE]

Weekly News Summary.

Thanksgiving Proclamation. St.nut PfIEMtDKNT or the United States: Is I' WmMnuDon- i)«fc 8. Tlic year which l| drswlni: to- a clo.o ho* boon friio from pestilence ; health tian prcvnlli-d throdghoiyt Uie land; abundant cjopd reward the labor of tho.huabandinnn ; comtnefcAiirtd AArnilacWtren have tuccemfully pnwoenMd their paaooful pettß; the minesandioreetn luivo yielded liberally; the Nation has Incrooeed In wealth and In strength; peace has prevailed, and its blessings have advanced every interest of tho people ln‘ every part ol the Union; harmony and internal iptercomreo arq .restored, and arc obliterating the marks of tho past conflict and estrangement; hardens have Woeti HRbUJni-iL’mortns Increased, civil and religions liberties. are secured to every inhabitant or tho tand‘ whoso soil is trod;by none but free men. It becomes a poople thus favored to mSke acknowledgment to tho Supremo Author from whom alien nhjsstngs flow, of their gratitude and their dependence,‘re’ render praise and thanksgiving for tho same, and devoutly to implore a cent inuanco of God'a mercies: Therefore I, Ulysses 8. Grant, President of ths United States, do recommend that : THURSDAY, THE IHtH DAY OT NOVEMBER NEXT, be observed As a day of thmiksgiv)a|r and praise; of prayer to Almighty God, the Creator aud. the Knler of Universe; and Second, 1 do further recommend tp all the people of the United States to- assemble oij that totheir accustomed placcntff pitMw worship. • ana tounite in the homage and praise duo the Bountiful Fnthcr of all mercy, and in fervent, prayers for the continuance iff the merciful bleesbigs he haa vouchsafed to us as a people. In tcaGitiany whereof, I; have hereunto act my Imuß, and caused the seal of the United Btates 'to be affixed, this, tho Bth day of October, A. D. 186#, and of the Independence of the-dlnUed States of America, theJMtb. i r . * U. 8. Grant. By the President: * > Hamilton Kish, Secretary of State. __,

FOREIGN. President Lopez, in evacuating Asurra, removed everything, including his guns. . During the pursuit 30,000 affids attacked 3,000 Paraguayans. The latter -fought desperately- The engagement lasted six hours. The Paraguayans lost 2,500. men, and /ill their archives and specie. Letters received ai Washington on the 2d cofiflhtr previous accounts of insubordination and treachory ip the Cuban army. The' American volunteers• were said to bq anxious to get away, as they stated that qvery promise made them before they loft New York had been violated. They we?e placed in the frqnt in all engagements, and were given no quarter from tkfc Spaniards when wounded or,captured. ■■y= 3 ; A London telegram of the 2d says that in view of the complications between the United States and Spain, the ■ Prussian , Government had dispatched vessels of war to the Antilles. Right Rev. Samuel AValdegravc, Bishop of Carlisle, died on the 2d, aged 52. It was estimated in Paris on the 2d that the loss by fire among the shipping, at Bordeaux, would reach a million francs. The French and Corpa,Legislatif , have keen, convoked-, to meet, j^pvepiber 20. < ' • : - / a The Spanish Cbrtefl Opened on the 3d. r The government introduced a bHI to suspend. the rights of individuals until tjic insurrection in the south is suppressed. The town of Frauenstcip, in Saxony, the seat of extensive linen factories, is reported to have been destroyed by fire. It was asserted in Madrid on the 4th that the United States Government had renounced nil idea of interfering in the case of Cuba.

News from Spain on the 6th is to the effect that the Spanish Government refuses all oilers of foreign mediation, maintaining the position that the condition of affairs in Cuba is a domestic question, entirely. General Sickles had submitted to the Madrid Cabinet an -official note formally withdrawing his tender of .friendly mediation, by the United States, between the Spaniards and the Island revolutionists. Marshal law had been proclaimed in Andalusia and Catalonia. A telegram from Helena, Montana, on the sth, says a party just arrived at Fort Benton, from the British mines, report having found the remains of three emigrant wagons destroyed by the Blackftet Indians, together with the skeletons of women and children murdered a year ago. Accounts received on the 6th of the great flood in various poinifMtNcw England, New York, PennsylvßPr add Maryland give details of wide-spread destruction of property and fearful loss of life. Tho booms at . Whitohaven, Pa., were all broken, and great rafts of timber were floating down the river; the loss to the' Whitehaven lumbermen is very large. The water at Albany was over the docks, aud South Broadway was navigated by small boats. The Hudson at Troy was eighteen feet above low water mark. A passenger train was thrown into the Hoosjc river at Hoosic Falls by a wash on the railroad track, and three lives were lost The great dam over the Housatonic river at Birmingham, Cohn., which would have been completed in two weeks, was nearly swept away, destroying half the labor of two years. Not a bridge is left In the town of Manchester, Conn., and the destruction of mill property was immefife.

The Great Powers Will allow the Sultan and the Viceroy of Egypt to settle their dispute themselves. Peru has again been visited by tremendous shocks of earthquakes. The inhabitants of Arica and Iquique havb fled ftom the eeashorc to safer places inland. Lima and Callao have not as yet suffered, but the inhabitants arc leaving, both cities and business is at a stand-still. The Prussian Diet was opened on the 6lh, with a speech from the throne by the King. A letter writtqp iiord Byron in 1817 has been published, in mfiich he desires the Noel family to give Hlr wife’s reasons for leaving him, as he is ignorant of any, and declares he is not aware of their purpose in keeping silent. The London Times in an article ,on the state of Europe, declares that the item in the Vienna Preset hinting at a proliablc disarmament,'is 100 goqd news ty> lie true. The interchange of civilities between .sovereigns ami statesmen augur;; well for tire tranquility ; at present, tin re Is no np preliessions of a warlike outbreak. Au agent ot‘ r the Kothschilds, the wealthy European capitalist*, ji» on hi*

way to Washington -to./oKr tiw.Ctpyttßment a loan of all the mraqr icJmWSf Vflcd, at a reasonable rate of mtcresb— four ; per cent.,it Is miliT" TlilnHrijmpjWirflglng indication of our nlir 'n l Gold closed in New>¥ovkbon tka &htat 1 There waVa 1 s§&sX?frc In '& Wfinclsco on the 2d. • . : ’ i. I ',*' : , A Violent Kh,ttrk Of pqrthqnake was expcricnOod at Flllino«v:;U<tab, on the Ist Inst, lasting two minutes. *Tfcc' Btntellotse t;«*qsiSfd rtwwtyqd sox 1 five Or tell and tho.wmdciws', doors'atid ftrr- . niturc of the dwellings rattled aud shook. It is said t© have-keen the severest, shock .Uiat tiSf felt iff -thki 'pa’rt -Of Utah ’ *»;;'; - Receipts of-fractionul currency fbr the weito-ending October 3, 4905,000; ship men to, $803,^87; fimpufitdcstroyod, $170,952. Total National ■ %4bvciroulation, The, fair of. the Loire Shore Grape Growers’ Association will be held at Erie, Pa., Octobet-lSth and lfith, , i The Neiy Nptlf 'UfynM 6i the fid positively asserts that the steamer Alabama left that port on the 2Gth ult,, foil Cuba, having on bo&rd an extensive ; Supply of munitions of War for the Cuban revolutionists, and 513 volunteers for Cespcdc’s army.- : The Hornet, aliat Cuba, appeared at SraithvillCj'lSr. C., on the evening of the 2d, flying the Cuban colors. It was definitely’ ascertained that she had 200 men tifid 80 officers *on board. A warrant was ' issued "by a’’''United States Commissioner and placed in the hfinds of a Deputy United States Marshal, and tho latter placed on board the Hornet with instructions to detain the vessel until further ordprs.

The large paper stainery of Howell & Co., at Marseilles, 111., was totally destroyed by fire On the evening of the fid. Loss about $75,000. An Indianapolis dispatch of the 4th says: “ The best information, obtained up to noon, places the number of killed at twenty-four. Twenty-one have been identified; one body is still at the undertaker’s not known, and parts of what are supposed to be two peD?ons which it will be utterly impossible to shape. Two or three of the wok ruled, at least, will certainly die. The conrmittoe appointed by tho. Young Men’s Christian Association visited the families of the killed and wounded this-mbrning, and examined into their necessities. There is the. greatest suite ring, and too much can hardly be contributed. Those whbhfive hot been here cannot realize the horrible features of the disaster by the extent of the suffering and actual want. Any contributions sent to thfe car.e of the Christian Association will he properly applied. There were fourteen funerals yesteiday, and there have been four more to ; day, of the- victims of the explosion.” • Secretary Robeson has reduced wages in the Washington Navy Yard,, as follows; Second-class painters, from $3 tp $2.75; wheelwrights, prom $2-75 to $2.50, and second-class laborers from $1.75 to $1.50. ~ The New England Reform League held a session in Worcester. Mass., on the 3d and 4th, and adjourned to meet in' Providence on the 16th and 17th instant. Three adored men recently attempted to take seats in the dress circle of the National Theatre, Washington, but were politely ejected. The question of colored people and their rights in pldces of amusement will probably be tested by law.

Increased rates on freights from New York to the West went into effect on the 4th. St. Louis, 70c.; Chicago, 30c.; Cincinnati, 4Sp.,pcr cwt., and others in proportion. During tho night of the 3d and until noon of the 8d a very heavy rain storm prevailed in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, pod portions of New England, doing great damage along river courses aud railroad linen. The Illinois Grand Lodge of Masons recently elected the following officers; 11. G. Itoynolds, G. M.; D. C. Crciger, D. G. M.; J. A. Hawley, S. W.; G. E. Lou'nsberry, J. W. ; Harrison Dills, Treasurer; 0. H. Miner, Secretary; 11. J. Davidson, Chaplain. The parties who were engaged in the assaulton revenue officer Brooks, in Philadelphia some weeks since, have been arrested in New York. One of them has voluntarily confessed. •* Horaco Greeley, in the lribune of the sth, says he could not accept the Virginia Senatorship, and asks the press to forbear hauling him. as a candidate for any office. The following appointments were made on tho sth: Gnstavc Garrecki, of Pennsylvania, Consul at Augsburg; Francis Lenon, of the District of Columbia, Marshal of the Consular Court at Hankow, China; ClarftnutdO Martius, of Porto Praya, Santiago, Consul at Santiago, Cape Verde Island. • Jersey City, Hudson City, and Bergen City, N. J., have voted, by large majorities, to consolidate as one city. The other towns of Hudson'-county, including Hoboken, voted against the measure ahd remain out of the consolidation. At the recent annual meeting of the New. York Clearing-House Association, it was reported that the total transactions for the past year Were $38,597’,847,296.43, and the transactions since its organization, a period of sixteen years, $3,006,027,558,926.70. The average transactions per day have been $T35,088,789.01. JTiie New York Tribune us the sth prints an alleged authentic‘statement of the views of the President up the Euterpe ease—that all parties have a rigid to purchase or ship arms, and that the Govern meat can only feel bound Pi pie vent the

overt net of sending out an armed vessel to make war upon a friendly natiou. Tho colored citizens of Kansas are to hold a State Convention in Topeka, on Wednesday, October 27. One of the persons injured by the Indianapolis explosion has commenced suit against Sinker & Co., the owners of the boiler that exploded, for damages, laying them at $5,000. The coroner’s inquest returned a verdict on the sth. Alter a lengthy statement of the facts, the jury says: “In accordance with these facts and details, we therefore find and render our verdict as follows: That P. L. Davis and 20. others came to their death from injuries received by the explosion of a boiler attached to one of E.„T. Sinker & Co’s, portable engines, at the Indiana State Fair Grounds, on the Ist day of October, 1869 —which explosion was caused by carelessness and culpable mismanagement on the part of the engineer in charge, John Goll, deceased.” The Ilay tion Government has purchased the armor-plated steamer Atlanta, at New York, for $160,000. The lake propeller Omar Pasha, engaged in the Chicago lumber trade, was burned to the water’s edge, at the mouth of Muskegon lake, on the Bth inst. Loss, $25,000. Reddy, the blacksmith, was acquitted on the Bth. The Irish Immigration Convention, at St. Louis, has adjourned sine die, after taking steps to organize an Immigration Association, capital $2,000,000; to exist for twenty years, and then the capital, which is to be invested in United States bonds, and only the interest to be used, is to be returned to the stockholders.

PERSONAL. The Cincinnati Red Stockings beat the California picked nine on the 2d—46 to 14. Ex-President Pierce, who had been quite ill for several weeks, was very low on the 2d, and his recovery was extremely doubtftil. A missionary brings the welcome Intelligence to London thal Mr. Kirk had received a letter from Dr. Livingston, dated February, 1869, and that the Doctor Was then in good health, but short of provisions. Hon. Frank Pierce, cx-Prcsident of the United States, died at Concord, N. H., on the Btli inst. He had been suffering from illness for some time. Mr. Pierce was 65 years of age, and was President of the United States from 1853 to 1857. Horace Greeley has accepted the nomination for Comptroller of the State of New York.

POLITICAL. The Tennessee Legislature met on the 4th. D. B. Thomas was elected Speaker of the Senate, and W. A. Howard, Clerk. M. O. Perkins was elected Speaker of the House. At an election in Hartford, Conn., on the 4th, the Democrats elected their ticket for town officers, by 600 to 700 majority. The Virginia Legislature convened at noon on the sth, with a full attendance. The Senate and House of the Virginia Legislature are now organized. Hon 8. Turner, of Rappahannock, has been elected Speaker of the latter. The recent election in New Haven, Conn., resulted in the partial success of the Citizens' arid Tax payers’ ticket of seven Selectmen: but two on the Demo-, cratic ticket were elected. The Town Clerk, Treasurer and. Collector are Democrats. All the towns in the State, except Bridgeport, held elections for town officers on the 4th. In fifty-two towns heard from on the Cth, 28 elect Republican officers, 18 Democratic, and 6 are divided. The Virginia Legislature on tho Bth ratified the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, by a largu.majority.