Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1870 — FOREIGN. [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN.

The MaruiUaite newspaper was seized by the Paris authorities on the 6th, on account of the violence of its articles on political affairs. The editor of the Rappel was also seized by the police, and arrests continued of persons suspected of implication in the regicide plot. The recent seizure of the Pans and Reveille was caused by the publication therein of a false proclamation, signed Louis Bonaparte. The issue of the Rappel was again seized, on the 7th, on account of its violation of the Press laws. The election in France has resulted in a majority of over 5,000,000 in favor of Napoleon’s policy.

A terrible rccident occurred on a railroad, near Luxembourg, Belgium, on the Oth. Itfa reported that twenty persons were killed. Dispatches were received at the Navy Department, Washington, on the 11th, from Admiral Poor, dated Havana, May 9. No political 'hews of importance. General Cord, sent out from Bpain to relieve General Valmaseda, bad arrived, bringing with him 900 Spanish troops, which had been distributed among the forts at Havana.

Serious troubles occurred in Paris on tha night sos the 10th. The authorities were forced to make a large display of military to restore brder. A barricade in the Belleville district was stubbornly defended, though subsequently carried by the soldiers, at the point of the bayonet. Several were killed and wounded on both sides. . During the night other engagements occurred. Numbers of soldiers, policemen and citizens were killed. Paris WM tranquil -on thel,3 th. .Henri .Rochefort*/ Journal, the VantaMte, has been again prosecuted for publishing an article asserting that the recent riots were organized by the police. The total vote on thepfaWsrifamis: “Yes,” 7 336,439; “ No,” 1,560,709. Algeria—Civilians ••Yes," 10,791; “No," 18481; army’ “Yes," 86,165; "No,” 6,029. In the British House of Commons on the 12th the consideration of the bill allowing women to vote was postponed by 126 majority, thus virtually defeating the bill,

Announcement was made in the Canadian Parliament on th* ’llth, that the’ rnoney had been paid to the Hudson Bay Company for the purchase of the Red River territory, which would be transferred to Canada in about a month. DOMESTIC. . . Gold closed in New York on the 12th at-114#.,” A destructife.conflagration occurred at Quincy, 111, on the night of the sth, involving a loss ot 1800,000, and the destruction of fifteen business houses. Over 10,000 immigrants arrived at New York city during the week ending May 1. In San Francisco, on the 7th, the thermometer stood at 88 deg. In the interior of California it ranged at 90 deg., to 100 deg.. The weather was unprecedently warm for May, and unfavorable reports were received from the interior in regard to the crops. A. Denver dispatch of the 7th says: “Accounts of,lndian outrages on the Kansas Pacific Railway and elsewhere in 'Colorado, recently published by certain New York papers,*are entirely groundless. There has been no Indian troubles in this Territory during the past year, and" Gov. McCook is confident that none need be anticipated within the limits of Colorado.” A commission store was burned in Milwaukee on the night of the 9th, and an old Frenchman named Chavanoux, who roomed above; perished in the flames. A fight recently occurred at Atlantic City, Wyoming, between soldiers under Major Gordon and the Indians. The Indians lost three men. Lieutenant Stambaugh was killed.

News from the Red River country to April 16, received at St. Paul on the 9th ins*., report all quiet The Indian excitement had subsided. The Sioux and Chippewas had promised that they would re--1 main peaceable, and cause no trouble to the whites. Reil, President of the Provisional Government, had issued a second proclamation, declaring peace an established feet; that business was reviving, and inviting all the inhabitants to uphold the government The April report of the Department of Agriculture says winter grains everywhere show a small and poor growth, but generally of good color, and ready to start under the influence of a genial spring. Advices state that the Canadian steamer Algona, of the Red River expedition, bound from Collingwood to Fort William, passed through the Sault4Janal on tbefith without interference or objections. The ship Sunbeam, of Boston, was burned in the Pacific, March 81. Her second mate, carpenter, steward and six of the crew were lost; the rest were saved. —- A prize-fight come off near New Orleans on the 10th, between Jem Mace and Tom Allen. On the tenth round Mace was declared the victor. Allen was badly punished, while Mace escaped with but slight injuries. The hog pens attached to a Cincinnati distillery were destroyed by fire on the morning of the 11th, and about 8,000 hogs perished in the flames. The spectacle was shocking. The cries of the anisoals were heard a mile and a half The opening of the Floral Fair of the Cotton States took place at Augusta, Ga, on the 11th. The St. Paul Press of the 12th publishes a letter from Duluth, which says large bands of Fenians, numbering from two to four hundred, were congregating there for service in the Red River country against the British invasion. They were reported wellarmed, and under command of an ex-Confederate officer. They proposed to reach Fort Garry by the Rainy Lake route, capturing Fort Francis on their way. The PreM does not vouch for the truth of this intelligehce. By direction of the United States authorities, the Governor of Michigan has instructed the Superintendent of the Sault Bte. Marte (Sanai to allow no Canadian vessel with troops or material of war to pass the.canat unless tjie vessel has the spedal permission of the United States Government, The Stettier Algona, with store* for Fort William, pasted the canal just before the order reached Sault Ste. Marie.

The express train on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, due at St. Lents on the morning of the 12th, collided with the fast freight train near Eureka, about thirty miles west of St. Louis, and a terrible smash-up and loss of life ensued. Nineteen persons were reported killed and over thirty smhfeof them probably fatally. The blame of the collision seems to attach to the conductor of the freight train, who should, >ave waited at the gravel switch until the express passed, but, misapprehending his orders, or thinking he could reach Eureka before the passenger train, went on.