Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1869 — Weekly News Summary. [ARTICLE]

Weekly News Summary. ———

,„ FOREIGN. * Dispatches. from Madrid on the Kith -MWe tfnii the Republican-leadofs/flolochea and Paul, were In the neighborhood of Malaga, proclaiming the Republic. The insurgents at Valencia, a fit t a battle, tyhich lasted several hours, surrendered unconditionally on the 17th. Their leaden had disappeared, ; -but wcre believed to he secreted in the city or vicinity. The session ol the , Cortes was suspended on the lGth. Arrests continued to bo mode of leading Republicans in Madrid. The loss Oflife at the Valencia fight was very slight; Tlio surrender is reported to have had a tranquilizing effect.on the country, and official reports state that only a tew of the remnants'hf dispersed bands were roaming through the provinces. Three"steamers reached Cuba on the 18th with reinforcements for the Spanish army. A London tolegram or the 18th states that Lord Derby, who had been ill for several , days, was gradually siakjng, and could not live many day*. ’ * • • The Canadian authorities had a report on, the 19th that the Fenjaps had chartered and equipped a gunboat to bombard and burn Canadian towns on the upper lakes. Accordingly they had placed a gunboat in readiness for action in those waters, manned with a Toronto field-bat-tery. A Madrid telegram of the 19th says the government regarded the Republican Insurrection as at an end, although precautions to guard against any new outbreaks were continued. ThTs New York tYibune has advices to tho effect that the Captain General of Cuba lately sent an Urgent demand to the Madrid Government, for two millions of dollars, but he was informed in reply that the Spanish treasury was empty, and that hereafter Spaih would furnish troops, but Cuba must furnish money, The Canadians were preparations on the 30th for the reception of the pxpoctcd Feniap invafeiah.* * I . A special Madrid dispatch on the 20tfi says tfie insurrectionary movement inside the city- flif Valonoift had beeir* ricomuiencod by the revplutioaists. When the Government troops proceeded to cuter the town after the capitulation, the soldiers were received,, on marching into tf(e place, with a volley of musketry, and, ■ the fire being returned, hostilities were renowed. The fighting continued at the latest moment. Three thousand more troops had beeen ordered to Cuba to assist in quelling the insurrection, The Republican leader, Solooohea, was killed on the 19th. ——— DOMESTIC. Gold closed in New York on the 22d at 131 1/4/ An Omaha dispatch of the 16th says: Reports arc received here that a Government surveying party, under Nelson Buck, numbering twelve men, was massacred about fifty miles south of Fort McPherson. The surveying instruments, tools, and a portion of the camp equipage owned by the party were found. The reports are credited, but lack full confimation.” ( At a mdttiug rbciStly held in Cincinqati, wjpqoi)«tpf&Miiiaa. of the Methodist Episcopal Church organized, a National Convention, electing for President J.' Gatchell, of New Jersey. Vice-Presidents, W. B. Davis, of Ohio; E, Dawson, Delaware; T. A,.Goodwin, Indiana; Wosloy Stephenson, Maryland; Recording Secretary, W. H. Kinkaid, Pennsylvania; Corresponding Secretary, ty. J. P. Ingraham, Pennsylvania; Treasurer, Frank Pearson, Pennsylvania. One hundred and twentyone delegates from all parts of (he coun(ry were present. It was reported on the 16th that President Grant and Secretary Bout well both deny that any financial proposition from the Rothschilds had been submitted to, this Government. • Receipts of fractional currency for the week ending October 16, |1,183,760; shipments, $778,700; amount destroyed, $330,700. The Louisville Commercial Convention adjournal nine die on the Kith. The Louisiana State Setrrtbary, near Alexandria, was destroyed by fire on the night of the 14th. Doss about S4O,QO(L 'The library, apparatus and most of tho furniture were saved. The, Attorney-General fff Illinois .lias decided that the title to the land on which the Southern Illinois State University lias' boon located ia Carbondalc, ainUhc lands proposed to be donated, is'defective a*d insufficient. This .will VWipatt the question of thq location of th*t Institution. The small pox has broken out badly among the ttovf Imjhtrts In Montana. The United States Marshal boarded the Cuba at Wilmington, N. C., on the 19tb, and demanded her surrender. Commodore Higgins reftised to surrender except to an officer of the Navy, and upon an order from the President, whereupon Lieut. Com. Pierson, of the Frolic, boarded her aud showed a written order from the President. Com. Higgins then surrendered himself a prisoner of war to the United States Navy. Snow full in Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri, and the central part of Illinois on the 19th. The Second Auditor has finished the statistics for his annual ' report, which shows (he aniouQt paid for bounty and back .pay. of deceased soldiers to be $82,492,696.83, which has no ; to amounts paid tlisclnifgQd raljllcra 1 * Tlie amount of money transmitted order system during tlf* past r $16,000,000, and during, the fiscal yean tSKliflg June last,; is $40,006,000, re(juNffi;^'3,’K9) ( o(io , i Building inClaciunatijeeq

taining Lane College, tlw Young Men’s Library, the Chamber of Commerce, and several atoros and was destroyed by fire on the 20th. Captain Matt Schwab, of the Phoinix Hook and Ladder Company, lost hia lifo while working at the Are. 1 : . f 1 ’ • ■ ' ! Tho Montgomery (Ala.) Journal say* qomplete arrangements have been mudu Ifor paying all tho Interest on the State debt which falls dn# on the l*t of November.. The bones of six mon and forty-six horses, supposed tQ bo. the remains of a part of Col. Freaflont’s party, lost over twenty years ago, ligve been found by a piarty of mountaineers, in Southwest Colorado. The first pick in the Sutro tunnel, Nevada, was struck on tho 20th, under general rejoicing of the people. A great barbecue and jubilee took place on the occasion. At St. Louis and Louisville the ground' was Covered by three inches of-snow on the 19th. ‘ The American Bible Union commenced its twenty-fifth annual meeting in New York on the 20tn. The Treasurer’s import shows disbursements to the extent of $61,715.71, and receipts of $58,368.80. Commissioner Delano has given a decision that persons in the habit of buying cattle in the summer aud turning them into their pastures and selling them for beef to butchers and drovers as soon as they are in proper condition, are not liable to taxation as cattle brokers, if such buying, pasturing, and selling are necessary to their business as farmers and graziers, or properly incidcntal thereto. The real cattle broker, under this decision, is held to be one whose regular business it is to buy cattle bn values greater than ten thousand dollars annually and simply for profit. A party of Indians recently attacked and captured the mail coach at Apache Pass, killing the driver and five soldiers; they also captured 300 head of cattle. Being pursued, they were overtaken, twelve killed, and three mules and all the cattle retaken. > ’ An earthquake shock was experienced in Ifaine, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Nnw Hampshire on the 22d. The shock at Boston w»a so perceptible that thousands of people: sprang out of their bedslft‘great alarm. ». The Rodman House, the principal hotel at Roek Island, 111,, was destroyed by fire on the 23d. Loss, $59,000. November IB has been designated by the Governor of Michigan as a day of public thanksgiving. A Washington dispatch of the 23d sqys the opipfon of the Cabinet in the Yerger case sustains the expected decision iff the Supreme Court, that, although guilty, the ' military co’urt had no jurisdiction in the case, and it will haYe' to be tVicd in',a civil' court. 1,: A ■■ : ‘ ••• >•' PERSONAL. Thp following appointments of postmasters, have been made; Frederick D. i'urnor, at Carson City, Nevada, ««-B. T. Small, suspended;-James J>- Wood* Central Cjty, 001., vice Samuel A. Buell, stis--pended; Peter Grubb, at Kenton, Ohio, August Frcgcr, suspended. Several bishops and priests have sailed from NeW York for Rome t6> attend the Ecumenical Connell. ■ q The Masonic Grand Lodge off- Kentucky met at Louisville qn the 18th. Ahout 335 delegates were present’. A. H. Stephens, of Georgia, wTites that ho is in very poor health, and net-er expects to leave home again. Fpr the week ending October 17, over T,160 passengers arrived In California by the Central Pacific Railroad! ‘ Admiral Farragut was again worse on the night of the 18th, but his physicians Were still hopeftil. ” *'’ ’• • , A game of base ball played in Cincin,nafifcn the 18th, between tho Red Stockinga and the Athletics, of Philadelphia, resulted in the defeat «f the lhttct dlub by a«k»raof;i7toi2.! Ft ther Hyacinthe arrived in Now York city on (he 18th. A delegation of clergymen railed upon him and tenhfertd him their pulpits, but ho declined them." He will visit Boston, Philadelphia, Washington. and fettles, arttl ; fexpects 'to 'f&ialn -lirfhe United States about three o f Pennsylvania, diod_on thq 16th, in his 90th yeajJohh T.. Knowles has been appointed 1 Judge of the United States Dlstrlfet Court for the Rhode Island District. Father Hyacinthe has authorized tho New York Tribune to say that he is still a; Roman Cittholic, but not in accord with tho ultramontane spirit and doctrines of Rome. -At social parly assembled at the.irosldcncc of G. D. Norris, Ifisq., at Mil<i waukee, was suddenly thrown Into consternation and sorrow, on the night of the by the death of Mr. Norris, the host of the occasion, who fell down stairs ana broke his neck, while his guests werO in ' the midst of their festivities. The statue of Lincoln hal bes q unvelled in’rrokpeet'Park, Brooklyn. . . A Ncw York telegram of the 23d say* the Grand Jury had not presented any indictments against Corbin and the other gold speculators. The Commercial sky a. General Butterfield, in a letter to Secretary BoutW|BU, indi«nantly denies the assytion jegardlpg his association with the [ ins * **»?*&* the idea that he has been In any manner-1 I kntT reqawfr U’ftlllrand \MKsemtLM^ »l(e 20d, after the apD.’Caton, qfl+itamik'; B*m B. ChnrfeWll, Reeves, of Missouri 1

of Indiana, as >a sub committee for' tho Durpoec of facilitating any busineei that it may hereafter be necessary to transact in the interest of the capital movSment. POLITICAL. In the Tcnnosseo Senate on the ,18th: a series of resolutions were passed in reference to the. public debt of the State, .and resolving (hat “all available revenues 1 and resources of the State should be faithftilly appropriated ko the payment of the interest on our bonded debt and the security of the principal at maturity." In Caucuses held on tho night of tliq ■lßth the Walker members of tho Virginia Legislature noriunated John F. Lewis and John W. Johnston, and' tho Wells party nominated L. 11. Chandler and Dr. Alex. Sharp for United States Senators from that State. - A ballot Tor United States Senator in the Tennessee Legislature on, the 19th resulted in 43 for Johnson; 29 for Etheridge; And 88 for othef candidates. '■ The election returns from the whole State of Ohio give Hayes, Republican,.fof; Governor, a majority of 8,078. The Republicans have a majority of one in the Senate and three iri the Hbuse. A-egU has been issued in New York ia* vitipg State organizations in behalf of woman’s suffrage to be represented in a delegate Convention at Cleveland, Ohio, November 34 and 25. The call is signed by Win. Lloyd Garrison, George William Curtis, Hetory Ward Beecher, : ‘Gerrijtt Smith, Lucy Stone, Antoinette Brown, Mary A. Livermore, Grace Greenwood, and eighty others, representing nearly every State. 1: : .. . The election for United States Senators in the Virginia Legislature on the 19th resulted in the choicq of Lieut. Gov. Lewis, for the long term, and Judge; John W. Johnston, of Washington county, for the short term. The Virginia Legislature adjourned on the 26th, to meet on the second Tuesday after Congress shall have admitted the State into the Union. Two ballots were taken for United States Senator in the Tennessee Legislature on the 20tli. The last ballot stood: Johnson, 41; Etheridge, 39; Cooper, 5 j Twing, 4; Peyton, 6; Fletcher,-12; Milton Brown, 2. Two.members absent- Nefecs-' sary to a choice, 54 Additional returns from the lowa election, received at Dos Moines off the 20th, Swell the Republican mhjority' to 83,636. -It was thought the .oouatiesinoVyet heard from would increase the; figures to over 35,660., . ’ .. ■ ■ ( ... The National Capltkl 'Cofavention assembled iff St. Louis oft tho-30tb, arid after tui address of welcome by the Maydr, organized electing Judge s os lowa, as Chairman. Afterward, Hon. John j), Caton, of Illinois, was elected President, and took his sieat after a short address. Nothing wan done, except -appointing committees and preparing for .business. The full official vote of Pennsylvania gives GcaTy a majority of 4,596, and Williams, for Judge of the- SUpjremfe Court, a majority of 8,708, : - 1 "-** The Repubjiefra Convention Tor the Seventh District of Massachusetts nomfftlftfed Geo. M. Brboks as k candidate to fill the vaeaney eaused by the resignation of Mr. Bohtwell. In the Tennessee Legislature on the 21st four ballots were taken for Uffited States Senator; the last one stood Johnsoii, 48; Etheridge, 81; scattering 24. It is said in Washington to hate bedft discovered that the newly-elected. Seffatori from yirgipia, Mr. Johns toft, as well as Mr. Gibsori, and one of the representatives of that State, arc stfll laboring under disabilities imposed by the Fourteenth Amendment. On the first -ballot in the Tennessee, stood, 5-J (or Copper: sos Johnson.