Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1870 — Weekly. News Summary. [ARTICLE]

Weekly. News Summary.

: FOREIGN. , ‘ Thd Madrid ' uh. publishes a proclamation of neutrality, issued by the Spanish Government.’ - A London dispatch of the 29th ult. says the report of the violatton of the Luxemburg territory was an. »bsurd exaggeration, groWingduthf the fact that a , french corporal tmdcrosseil AbriYerfrom Bierck with some felfow soldiers in sekrch of tobacco. The French fleet had arrived at Copenhagen" > ■.. ; - The as well ,M that of France,, has declined to allow foreign military officers at army headquarters. « The French Ambassador has assured Earl Granville that the proposals for the secret treaty originated in Berlin, and were declined I>X France.. > ~ A Berlin dispatch of the 29th ult says a detachment of French troops, consisting of three Companies of Infantry and eighty horsemen, attacked half a regiment of Prussian infantry at Voelklingen, midway between Saarbrucken and Saar-Louis. The French were repulsed - , with a loss of one officer and eight men. One Prussian soldier was wounded. A recent dispatch from Ottawa, Canada, says the Queen had .granted amnesty to all parties connected with the rebellion at Red River. A Barlin dispatch states that on the morning of the 80th ult., the French attacked Saarbrucken in largely superior force, but were vigorously repulsed, and retreated, leaving one gun and losing twenty men. The Prussians lost eight men. A Paris dispatch of the 31st says that fighting between Prussian and French forces had - commenced in Baden The French Minister Ollivier says the Emperor never approved or accepted the basis of the so-called secret treaty, alleged to have been drawn up by Count Benedetti, and that Bismark’s prompting idea was actually odious to him.

The cable news on the Ist is to the effect that the French Mediterranean fleet had arrived at Brest, and would go north to join the Baltfc fleet. The Emperor’s headquarters had been removed to St. Avoid, near the frontier. During the war, no person, of whatever nationality, will be permitted to enter or leave France without a passport King William had left for the front The Queen attended him to the railway station. Multitudes of enthusiastic people collected there, and flags and flowers were without end. The French troops had been withdrawn from Rome, the Italian government guaranteeing the preservation of order in that city. The French Cabinet had made an explanation of the recent expressions regarding Spain, to Senor Olozaga, which were considered featisfhetory. It Was considered certain in London that England wonld take action to defend Belgium. The debate in the Commons on the war question showed that the feeling of the House was strongly marked in favor of an energetic policy. It was reported at Vienna that Austria and Italy had settled upon a treaty which insures their neutrality. A steady rain had been falling for a day or two throughout Western Europe. The harvest had commenced in the south of England, The crop was excellent in quality and the yield abundant. Cable dispatches of the 2d state that the French forces had crossed the frontier and had a serious engagement with the Prussians, carrying the heights overlooking Saarbruck and driving the Prussian forces from the town. The engagement commenced at 11 and ended at 1 o’clock. The Emperor assisted at the operations, and was accompanied, by the Prince Imperial King William bad arrived at Mayence, with several members of his staff, and had received highly satisfactory reports from the three army corps on the French frontier. Prussia had demanded a full explanation from Austria why she was arming. < The popularity qf the war feeling in England was increasing. The German journalawsre terribly exasperated against England because the latter continued to tanlsh supplies to France- The Prussian army on ths frontier was esti mated to antoutit to BW,OOO mon. * k x M S A 2 * a*.’** Al" a A

* By cable on the 3d it is announced that Saarbruck had been taken by the French. Loss slight on both sides. King William, q,t Mayence, assumed the commanderahip-in-chief and issued a proclamation to the armies of Germany, in which he says: “ All Germany stands united against a neighboring State, which has surprised us by declaring war without justification. The safety of Fatherland is threatened. Our homes and our hearths are at stake. To day I assume command of the whole army*. I advance cheerfully to a contest in which, in former times,, opr fathers, under similar circumstances, fought gloriously. The whole,Fatherland and myself trust confidently in you. The Lord God will be with our righteous cause,” It whs positively asserted that Austria and had entered into an alliance with France. The menacing attitude of England towards France, as exhibited by the English press, and the pressure in Parliament for increased armament, is said to have hastcnedthls.Alliance. A Havana dispatch of the 3d says insurgent General Jederico Castellanos had voluntarily surrendered at Puerto Principe. The Diet of Hungary on the 3d emphatically declared in favor of Austrian neutrality in the Franco-Prussian war. It was reported at Lisbon on the 4th that Don Fernando had accepted the proffer of the crown of Spain. A Copenhagen dispatch of the 4th says the Danish Government was struggling hard to preserve neutrality, but the sympathy fb/Vranco among all classes was very marked.

A Paris dispatch of the 4th says the heights taken by the French at Baarhruck form a key to the railway approaches to Treves. A Berlin dispatch says a feeble garrison held Baarbruck Until the French deplpyed and advanced in three columns. w .. i

A cable special to the New York Herald on the 4th says: “ There was hard fighting at Weissenborg yesterday. Todays large force of Prussians advanced between Weissenborg and Lauterbourg, ten miles into French territory, driving, the outposts of .the enemy and destroying miles of railroad between Lauterbourg and Strasbourg, along which it was supposed McMahon was preparing to advance. The French loss was heavy, including many prisoners.”

DOMESTIC. Gold closed in New York on the 4th at 121%. A Memphis dispatch of the 28th ult. states that crop reports continued favorable, except from Mississippi, where caterpillars had done some damage. The small-pox is reported to have made its appearance at Ogden, Utah. The Pogt-qflJce. DopMtment has announced that, in consequence of the suspension of the trips of the German steamers, the reduced rates of postage between the United States and Germany are inoperative, and the old rates will have to be resumed. The Chicago papers state that the Northwestern, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, the Burlington and Missouri, and the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroads have instructed their agents not to receive buffalo robes on their Missouri river termini without the certificate of the commanding officer pf the post or district from whence they come, stating dis* tinctly that the robes were not obtained from Indians that had, or were now suffering from, the .small-pox. A Washington dispatch of the 31st ult. says the Assistant Treasurer of New York is instructed to sell a million of gold each Wednesday.during August, and to purchase a million of bonds each alternate Thursday, commencing August 11. The sales of gold during the month will amount to five millions, apad the bonds purchased, six millions. An order was recently received at St. Louis by a prominent mercantile firm, from the French purchase 50,000 tons of hay for the French army. The following is the public debt statement for August: Pnb’lc debt outstanding $9,47K.R03 "<57 88 Interest 84 519 847 57 T0ta152,510,823,3.5 40 Amount In the Treasury: Coin t102.Wm.206 90 Currency. 88,068 623.20 Total 8140 998 829 40 Debt 1e“8 amount tn Trea5ury52,369,324,476.00 Decrease of debt duilng the past month 17 034.123 74 Decrease since March 1,1870 69,001,101 17 Pacific Railroad bonds outstanding 61,618,832 00 In ert st thereon accrued and not yet paid 323 o°4 16 Interest paid by the Un’ted Sta'es. 8,815 3-15.49 Interest repaid by transportation of mails 2,257,673.73 Balance of interest paid by the United States 6,563,671.76 A Raleigh, N. C., dispatch of the Ist says the reports of the arrest of thirty more citizens of Alamance were confirmed. Three companies of United States troops had arrived from Fort Washington. It was stated that two companies had been ordered to Yanceyville. The stern wheeler Silver Spray, from New Orleans for Cincinnati, With barge in tow, exploded her boiler, while at Paciflc Place, thirty miles above Memphis, on the night of the 81st ult. There were forty-four persons on the boat, of whom many lost their lives. Well-executed counterfeit tens on the First National Bank of PoughKeepsie, N. Y., are in circulation at the East. The Central Bank of Brooklyn, N. Y., suspended payment on the 2d. Returns at the Census office in Washington, on the 2d, indicate that by the 15th of August about half the country will have been enumerated, and it was thought that the Ist of September will witness the completion.

About two hundred applications for banks under the new currency law had been received up to the 2d by the Comptroller of the Currency. The majority were from Illinois, while almost the entire number of applications were from the West and South. Several had been received also from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland. On the Ist, Yellow Bear came intq Fort Laramtd. 'Hfchays Red Clout! was on Powder River, and was working for peace with his own tribe- and also with the Cheyennes and Arapahoes. Game was scarce, and the Indians would have to be fed by the government or steal. A New York dispatch of the 2d says: “Notwithstanding the indignation exSressed by the papers and Jews at a Sunay paper charging Washington Nathan with murdering his father, the Herald to-day publishes nearly seven columns, stronzly hinting at the same fact, and says every detective believes that a member or employe of the family committed the murder., They ground the suspicion on the facts, first, ttfaVhe ffAsChetlMbMp' son to sed Mt. Nathan alive, and the first to discover the murder; second, that he had blood on his clothing, and that there is no evidence about the premises that the murderer, whose feet must have been dyed In blood, left the house; third, that with the aid, of Nathan’s memorandum of combination, the son was able to open the safe on Broad street, and secure the will of his father. A workman at the house says he has seen the iron “ dog (the instrument with which the murder was committed), in Nathan’s stable for the last eighteen months. A coroner’s inquest will commence on Thursday." Notwithstanding the heavy reward ($50,000) offered for the detection of the

Nathan murderer, no arrest had been made up to the 3d. The French Minister, on the 3d, by order of his Government, notified our Government at Washington of the war between France and Prussia. The Emperor says he declares war to protect the honor and dignity of France. On the 2d„ Secretary Robeson ordered 500 more men to be engaged at various navy yards, and the work of repairing and remodeling the vessels on hand, and those being dally placed out of commission, is tq be vigorously carried on. The formal opening of the Exposition of Textile Fabrics took place at Indianapolis on the Bd. There was every indication that the Exposition would be a complete success. A Raleigh, N. C., dispatch of the 2d says: “The Marshal of the Supreme Court has returned from Yanceyville. Colonel Kirk refused to surrender the citizens held in custody. Counsel for the prisoners moved first for an attachment against Kirk, and, second, for a writ to some competent persons to bring in the bodies, and call out the power of the county if necessary. Chief Justice Pierson refused both motions, reiterating his former declaration that the power of the Judiciary has been exhausted, and that he has no pone comitatut to enforce writs. Six other citizens of Alamance were arrested yesterday.”

A New York dispatch of the 4th says no facts either of Interest or importance not previously made public, were elicited at the Nathan murder inquest on that dny, and the investigation was adjourned over to the Bth. The dispatch also states that Police Superintendent Jourdan was in possession of positive evidence proving the innocence of both Frederick and yTashington, NaXhan ,pf the ' murder of their father. - , ; Customs receipts for week ending July 30 were $3,711,247. A meeting of Frenchmen was held st St. Louis on the night pf the 4th, at which much sympathy was expressed for their countrymen now engaged in war with Prussia, and a committee wks appointed to raise money for tho benefit of wounded French soldiers.

PERSONAL. The Fenians O’Neill and Brown, being arraigned in the United States Court at Windsor, Vt., on the 29th ult., pleaded guilty. The ball of McGinnis' aid Monahan was declared forfeited fbr non-ap-pearance. The trial of Murphy was postponed until October. Lady Sir John Franklin arrived in Mew York city from the West on the 29th ult It is reported that Dexter recently trotted half a mile in to a road wagon. The Fenian General O’Neill has been convicted at Windsor, Vt., of violation of the neutrality laws and sentenced to two years imprisonment and ten dollars fine. Col. J. H. Brown was sentenced to nine months imprisonment and five dollars fine. Captain Monahan was sentenced to six months imprisonment and one dollar fine. Van Valkenburg, manager of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph office in San Francisco, has been arrested on a charge of stealing news as it came over the Western Union wires, by listening to the sound of the instrument from a near hiding place.

On the morning of the 29th ult., Mr. Benjamin Nathan, a prominent Wall street broker, was found murdered in his own house in New York city, where, at the time, his two sons and two daughters were sleeping without being aware of his dreadful fate. Commissioner Delano fell from a wagon at Mount Vernon on the 29th ult, and fractured his right arm very badly. The accident will keep him at his home for several weeks. At Cincinnati, on the 30th ult., the Red Stockings defeated the Mutuals, of New York city-15 to 12.' In Chicago, on the Ist, the Athletics, of Philadelphia, defeated the White Stockings—lß to 11. The Russian Government being informed of Seward’s approaching visit to China, has tendered him the palace of imperial legation at Pekin for his residence while in that city. Thorne, aUa» Comstock, on the 3d, leaped from an elevator at Buffalo, 135 feet, into Buffalo creek, and was seriously injured. He was advertised and in training to jump from the new suspension bridge at Niagara on the 18th. At Rockford, on the 3d, the Athletics, of Philadelphia, were beaten by the Rockford Forest City s—ls to 10. In Chicago, on the 4th, the White Stockings defeated the Lone Stars, of New Orleans—42 to 8. ’ At Rockford, on the 4 th, the Forest Citys defeated the Marylands, of Baltimore—ll to 4.

POLITICALS Capt. Havens, editor of the Springfield •(Mo ) Patriot, has been nominated as the Republican candidate for Congress, in the Fouith District of Missouri. The Colorado Democratic Convention nominated Geo. W. Miller, of Denver, for Relegate to Congress. Judge Guigon, at Richmond, Va., on the 29th ult, gave a decision ordering a new election for city officers in November, and deriding that the city offices were vacant and would be filled by appointment of the Court The Republican State Convention of Massachusetts la to meet at Worcester, October 5, to nominate State officers. The Democratic State Convention of Nevada will meet at Elko, September 14. The Republican Convention of the Seventh Congressional District of Illinois nominated the Hon. Jesse H, Moore, of Decatur, for re elec ion to Congress.

The Georgia Senate, on the 80th ult, passed, by a vote of 21 to 14, a preamble and resolution against an election in November. The Democrats in the Fifth District of Ohio have nominated Charles N. Lamison, of Allen county, for Congress. Uharles Foster, of Seneca county, is the Republican nominee for Congress in the Ninth Ohio. District. Judge E. Y. Rice, of Montgomery county, is the Democratic candidate for Congress in the Tenth Illinois District Thejßepublican Congressional Convention of the Eighth Illinois District, after a stormy session of several days, on the 31 nominated Colonel Jonathan Merriam, of Tazwell county, on the 186th ballot. The Temperance Mass Convention of Michigan, at Jackson on the 3d, nominated for Governor, Henry Fish, of Port Huron; Lieutenant Governor, Rev. E. Curtis, of Sturgis; Secretary of State, John Evans, of Bellevue; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Asa Mahan, of Adrian; State Treasurer, L. R. Atwater, Grand Rapids; Commissioner of the Land Office, J. H. Hartwell, Jr., of Hartwellsville, Shiawasea County; Auditor General, C. K. Carpenter, of Orion; Attorney General, C. G. Fuller, of Coldwater.

A Washington special of the 3d says: “ The muss about Richmond municipal offices is by no means settled. The Judge, who, a few days ago, declared them all vacant, because of frauds in the election, yesterday made seven new appointments. The present incumbents will not surrender their places, and the whole matter will probably go to the Court of Appeals.” At the recent election in Kentucky the Democrats generally succeeded in electing their county tickets. The Republican State Convention of .New York is called to meet at Saratoga on the 17th of September. It was reported in Washington on the 4th that Attorney General Akerman. is in favor of an election this coming fall in the State of Georgia. General R. O. Schenck has been renominated for Congress by the Republican Convention of the Third Ohio District. It was reported from Balt Lake on the 4th that W. H. Hooper has been re elected delegate to Congress by about 12,000 majority over the Gentile candidate.