Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1870 — Weekly News Summary. [ARTICLE]

Weekly News Summary.

FOREIGN. Cable dispatches on the 86th state in substance that the Prussians were steadily advancing on Paris; that eight departments of France were In possession of the invaders; all available approves to Paris were reported to be undermined; Bazaine was surrounded in Metz by Prussian troops, and was expected to be compelled to capitulate, being short of provisions ; Prince Napoleon’s demand for assistance had been declined by Italy; the French Chambers had adopted a law providing that all able-bodied men, between 20 and 85 years of age, be enrolled for military duty without liberty to procure substitutes; sixty thousand dollars had been received at Paris from French residents in the United States for the wounded, and a large sum from Constantinople ; the bombardment of Strasbourg continued, and the besiegers were making rapid progress; tbe town of Kehl, on the German side of the Rhine, was nearly razed to the ground by the shells thrown by the French from Strasbourg. Baron Gerolt, Minister at Washington of the North German Union, received a telegram from Berlin on the 26th, charging the French with having fired upon a flag of truce sent to Toul to procure surgical assistance in behalf of wounded French soldiers. The fortified town of Vitry surrendered to the Germans on the morning of the 26th, with a French loss of 16 guns and 850 prisoners. M. Thiers, after a long-fbhtinued refusal, has yielded to solicitations, and accepted, amid much applause in the Corps Legislatif, the tendered position on the Committee of Defense, conditioned on the hearty sympathy and co-operation of the Chambers. A Paris special to the New York Herald on the 28th states that one hundred and seventy thousand men had been killed or wounded so far during the war. It was reported in Paris on the 28th that on the 25th the Prince Royal of Saxony, with 10,000 men, had made an unsuccessful attempt to capture Verdun. McMahon’s main a?my was at Sevoy on the 28th. Tho Emperor was at Renionville, and the Prince Imperial at Rethel. Prussian scouting parties were at Meaux, one hour from Paris, on the 27th. Austria has concurred in & declaration of neutrality, as proposed by England and accepted by Italy. The Prince Royal of Prussia has issued a proclamation to the people of France, wherein he says: “ Prussia makes war against the Emperor, and not against the people of France. The people have nothing whatever to fear.” He also says: “ Only surplus food will be taken for German troops; that only which is not required by the peaceful French.” Paris telegrams assert that the invaders “ commit fearful pillago and unheard-of outrages as they move along." According to official dispatches received in Berlin, a great battle was fought In the neighborhood of Stenay, northwest of Montmedy, on the 28th, which is said to have terminated in a victory for the Prussians. It was rumored in London on the 29th that the Emperor Napoleon was shut up in Metz, where also were 10,000 peasants and 15,000 wounded soldiers. The opinion was gaining strength on tho 29th, that the movement toward Paris was only a feint, the real object of the Prussians being to envelope McMahon with their left wing and crush him. Heavy fighting had apparently been going on between Chalons and Verdun since the 25th, tho forces of McMahon and tho Crown Prince being engaged. A great battle near Mousson was begun on the 28th. A Berlin dispatch of the 29th states that the prisoners of war arriving there were already so numerous that the fortresses were full to overflowing. Camps were formed at Wittenburg and elsewhere to receive them.

A dispatch from the Prussian general headquarters, dated at noon on the 28th, declares that Bazaine’a communications were completely ent off, and all telegrams printed in Paris as from him wero manufactured there. News from the French War Office on the 30th states that Bazaine was not shut up; that he had 120,000 men that MacMahon was 180,000 strong, and that they wore stealing two marches on the Prince Royal, who was two days ahead of Prince Frederick Charles Another dispatch says: “Not only has MacMahcn failed to form a junction with Bazaine, but a wedge of Prussians has been driven between the two armies. This human wedge is now thicker than ever before, and MacMahon now finds himself 1 separated from Bazaine by two powerful German armies instead of one." Late advices from Shanghai state that the negotiations for tho settlement of the Tientsin affair were progressing. The Imperial authorities of Peo Chu Lee admit that the conduct of the missionaries at Tientsin was inoffensive, and that they were wantonly attacked. Paris is reported as being fully prepared to resist an attack. Gold was again circulating on the 30th. An American newspaper correspondent writes that the treatment of American journalists and travelers by the Germans, as well as by the French, has bean most flattering when compared with that bestowed upon people of other nations, and testifies to tho popularity of this country in all parts of Europe. Fighting is reported as naving occurred on tho *3Olll, between Mantmedy and Sod an. .. Csblo dispatches oi the 31st announce

another disastrous French defeat near Beaumont The Prussians had attacked McMahon’s army and drove it back upon the Belgian frontier. The French camp had fallen Into the hands of the Pruasians. The pursuit of the French troops was continued for several miles, and waa interrupted by the number of cannon and prisoners which were taken. In his dispatch to the Queen the King of Prussia states that twelve guns and some thousands of prisoners and .material of war were captured. The slaughter is reported to have been immense. A French position on the heights betwen Vouziers and Altigny, which was held by a body of Turcos, was taken by storm on tlie 80th. Napoleon had left Oarignan for Sedan, where the Empress was reported to be seriously iIL Public meetings were held all over Prussia to sustain the government in prosecuting the war to the end, and to discourage all attempts at premature negotiation. Tho Paris Patrie of the 81st estimates the Prussian losses, so far, at 145,000. German advices say tho French were so sure of victory at the opening of the campaign that they made no arrangements to save their baggage in case of retreat, and hence they have been compelled to abandon it in great quantities. Cable dispatches of the Ist confirm the reports of MacM&hon’s defeat on the 30th ult, and state that the Prussians captured over 10,000 prisoners. Fighting was reported near Sedan all day on the Ist. A London telegram of the Ist says the siege Qf Strasbourg continued. Great slaughter had been occasioned by the vigorous bombardment. The garrison made a sortie mi the night of the 29th nit., and drove the Germans several miles. The rinderpest is reported as spreading in the south of England. The shore end of the West India cable has been successfully landed at Santiago, Cuba. DOMESTIC. Gold closed in New York on the Ist at 116$*. A Washington telegram of the 26th says the Pension office is receiving many inquiries in regard to rules governing the furnishing of artificial limbs. Where soldiers elect to receive commutation, an order for payment of the amount at the rate of $75 for a foot, SSO for an arm, or other apparatus, will be issued at the Pension Office, and paid through the nearest agent. Such soldiers,as have not heretofore been able, from the nature of their injuries, to wear artificial limbs, are entitled to the benefit of the act. Payment at the rates named is made in all eases every five year a Direct correspondence by applicants, with the Pension Office, will secure the benefits of the act without employing an agent The United States Express car on the Missouri Pacific Railroad was entered by two disguised men on the morning of the 26th, seven miles west of Jefferson City, the manager was badly beaten, bound and gagged, and the safe robbed of SIO,BOO in money. The New York Commercial Bulletin of the 26th produces facts and figures to prove that our country is receiving no commercial advantages from the war. A duel was fought a few miles below Memphis at sunrise on the morning of the 26th, between Major Ed. Freeman, a young merchant, and Ed. Hamlin, a young lawyer, both of Memphis, with Derringer pistols, at fifteen paces. Both fired simultaneously, and Hamlin was shot through the body and died in ten minutes. A New York special of the 28th says: “ The feeling in the produce market is that breadstuffis will continue to improve. The demand from Europe for the French and German armies promises to be active. This, if taken in connection with the falling's in the estimated receipts at the lake ports, would argue better prices. The breadstuff market will bo very materially affected by the length of the war, and everything now points to a long war.”

Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Richardson issued an order on the 28th for the purchase of bonds and sale of gold for September as follows: The purchase of one million bonds on Thursday, September 1, and on each alternate Thursday, and two millions on Thursday, September 8, and each alternate Thursday—seven millions in all; the sale of one million of gold on each Wednesday of the month—four millions in a}l The Cincinnati express train ran off the track at Greenbush, N. Y., on tho 27th, Of eleven coaches in the train, five were smashed terribly. A'brakeman belonging to Rhinebeck, and a woman passenger from lowa, name unknown, were killed. A boy had an arm broken. Several other pasaengors received slight injuries. An accident occurred on tho Camden & Amboy Railroad, at Lawrence Station, N. J., on the 29th by which the rear car of an express train was thrown from tho track and demolished. One passenger was instantly killed, a brakoman fatally injured, three Other persons seriously and several slightly hurt Three Cars of the train for New York, on the Morris Sc Essex Railroad, were thrown from the track near Newark, on the 29th, and several passengers seriously injured. The cats were nearly demolished.

A Washington dispatch of the 30th says “the Assistant Attorney General has telegraphed to the United States District Attorney of West Virginia, to dismiss all prosecutions under the act to enforce the’ right of citizens of tho United States to vote In the several States, when tho office is not within the distinction forbidden in the second section of the same. In Kentucky and West Virginia it seems that parties have brought suit against Regis-1

tera of Election for refusing to register the votes of some alleged to have been in Confederate service. The second section referred to protects the colored people in their rights, but the third section relates to all classes. who may feel aggrieved by the refusal of registers to receive their votes. It is understood that the same instructions will be sent to the United States District Attorneys in the Southern and border States." On the morning of the 80th, two cars of a train on the Des Moines Valley Railroad were thrown from the track and down an embankment, south of Des Moines, and entirely demolished. Eight men were killed and seventeen seriously injured—all of them being lowa soldiers who were on their way to Des Moines to attend the State Soldiers’ Reunion. New discoveries of extensive and rich silver mines are reported as having been made fifteen miles north of Central City, Col A Bangor, Me., dispatch of the 81st ult says the weather continued extremely dry and the country was suffering severely from fires. Passengers on the Piscataquis Railroad report that buildings were burning along the line of the road, and that whole neighborhoods were out fighting the fire. The outstanding legal tender circulation on the 81st njt, according to the books of the United States Treasurer, was $356,000,000. On hand in the Treasury, notes of the series of 1869, $114,417,168, to supply the place of notes retired. Fractional currency outstanding $40,067,784. Customs receipts for August, $15,645,265. The King River Indians and several other tribes have commenced depredations on whites in Mono and Fresne counties, California. The Indians are reported 3,000 strong. The first spike of the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad was driven at Petaluma, on the 81st, amid rejoicing. A freight and accommodation train on the California and Oregon Railroad was thrown from the trestle work near Flats River bridge, on the 30th. Several passengers were injured, and fifteen cars demolished. The number of immigrants arriving at iTew York this year to September foots up 168,507,28,407 less than for the corresponding months last year. The debt statement for September is as follows* Debt bearing coin Interest $1,970,168,060 00 Interest * 87,016,664 00 Debt bearing currency Interest... 69,896,000 00 Interest 460,67* 00 Matured debt 8 506. 1*7 00 I nterest 458,616 OS Debt bearing no Interest 434,553,675 60 Total principal and Interest.. $3,496,661,804 00 Coin In the Treasury 10*,504,706 00 Currency In tho Treasury 87,136,949 00 Total 5189.640.664 00 Debt less amount In Trea5ury....53,856,931,160 03 Decrease of debt during the past month. Tr. .LT 18.403.836 00 Decrease since March 1,1870 83,407,820 00 Pacific Railroad bonds ontstand- __ lug 64,618,839 00 Interest; thereon accrued and not yet paid 646,188 88 Interest paid by the Untted States. 8,816,846 49 Interest repaid by transportation of ma11a.LT..... ..... 3,384,866 00 Balance of Interest paid by the United States 6,680,489 00

PERSONAL. In a game of base ball at Rockford on the 26th, the Forest Citys defeated the White Stockings, of Chicago—l 4 to 7. The sixth annual term of the Normal Musical Academy of the Northwest, under the direction of 11. R. Palmer, commenced in Chic&goW-ttfe 28d. A very large attendance is reported, representing nearly every State in the Weat and Northwest, and the prospects are exceedingly flattering to those having charge of the management and instruction. The traveling delegation of the Hlinois Press Association arrived at Boston on the 27th. The following Post-Offices have been recently established, and Postmasters appointed, in Missouri: Duncan Creek, Vernon County, J. A. Knox; Stafford Green County, J. B. Dunn; Lawson, Ray County, R. J. Clark; GrunneU, Grundy County, R. Weaver; Elkland, Webster County, J. L. Lee. Three parties named Willey, Mitchell and Roane, have been held in $5,000 bail each for the murder of State Senator Stevens, of North Carolina. Maj. Will C. Moreau, Democratic candidate for Congress in the Eighth Indiana District, was recently stricken with paralysis at Kokomo. His entire left side was paralyzed, and he was speechless.

D. J. Morrell has been re-nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Seventeenth Pennsylvania District. At Rockford, on the 27th, the Atlantics, of Brooklyn, defeated th* Forest Citys In a game of base-ball, twelve innings—l 4 to 13. At Chicago, on the 30th, the White Stockings defeated the Atlantics, of Brooklyn—l 3 to 4. According to the official returns the census of Louisville, Ky., foots up 100,039 —30,000 to 40,000 below the estimate before the census was taken. Between twenty and thirty thousand of the surviving volunteer lowa solans attended the recent re-union *t Dea Moines.

political; All Republican incumbents of seats in Congress from Vermont have been renominated. Congressional nominations on tbe 35th: Republican—William 8. Donnan, Third lowa District ; O. D. Conger, FiP«h Michigan ; CharlesQ. Brown, Twelftli Ohio; W. N. Jones, Delegate from Wj oaring. Prohibitionist—T. B. Ives, Fifth Illinois. Horace Greeley was nominated op the | 36th, for Governor of the State of Nv’W

York, by the Workingmen’s Central Union, a local political organization. •* A. J Hunter, of Paris, is the Democratic candidate for Congress In the Seventh Illinois District. The Republicans of the First Congressional District of South Carolina have putln nomination State Senator Rainey (colored), to fill Mr. Whittemore's unexpired term in the Forty-first, and also the full term In the Forty-second Congress. Congressional nominations on the 30th: Republican—Third Michigan District, Austin Blair, re-nominated; Third Illinois, H. O. Burchard, re-nominated. Demo-cratic-Eighteenth Ohio, J. M. Coffenberry. — The New York Democratic State Central Committee haa appointed the 21at of September-as the time for holding the Democratic Convention at Rochester. Congressional nominations on the 81st: Republican-Fourth Michigan District, T. W. Ferry, re-nominated ; Sixth Michigan, J. F. Driggs. Temperance —Eighteenth Ohio, John D. Taylor. At Large, In Illinois, John V. Farwell, of Chicago. The Prohibition Party df Itltnols; In Convention at Bloomington on tho 31st, nominated: For State Treasurer, K. G. Hammond, of Will county; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Prof. D. Wilkins, of McLean; Penitentiary Commissioners, J. M. Smith, of De Witt, and Dr. F.'S. Simpson, of Green. Private dispatches from Dayton, received in Cincinnati on the 31st, state that General Schenck had concluded to accept the Republican nomination for Congress in the Third Ohio District. The Michigan Democratic Btate Convention, in session at Detroit, on the 31st, made the following nominations: For Governor, 0. C. Comstock of Kalamazoo; Lieutenant Governor, J. A. T. Wendell, of Mackinaw; Secretary «r State, Isaac M. Crane, of Eaton; State Treasurer, P. J. Laranger.of Monroe; Auditor General, Charles W. Butler, of Lansing; Attorney General, John Atkinson, of Port Huron; Commissioner of the Land Office, John G. Hubinger, of East Saginaw; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Duane Doty, of Detroit; Member of the Bdsrd of Education, M, J. Bennett, of Jackson. The Republicans nominated Ex-Gov-ernor Newell in the Second, and John Hill in the Fourth Congressional Districts of New Jersey. Hon. John E. Smith has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Fourth Maryland District. Orestes Cleveland has been nominated by the Democrats of the Fifth New Jersey District At the Illinois Republican State Convention on the,lst Gen. John A. Logan was re-nominated for Congressman at Large. Treasurer Bates and School Superintendent Bateman were re-nominated; Casper Butz, of Cook, and Elmejr Washburn of Madison, were re nominated for Prison Commissioners. ) The Republicans of the First Ohio Congressional District have nominated Aaron F. Perry; and Job E. Stevenson is the Republican Candidate in the Second Ohio District. The Democrats have nominated Byron G. Stowe in the Fifth, and J. G. Sutherland in the Sixth Congressional Districts of Michigan. The following are the nominations made by the recent Republican State Convention of Michigan : For Governor, H. P. Baldwin, of Detroit, renominated; Lieutenant Governor, Morgan Bates, of Traverse City, renominated; Secretary of State, D. Striker, Hastings; State Treasurer, V. H. Collier, of Battle Creek; Auditor, General W. Humphrey, of Adrian, renominated; Commissioner of Land Office, Captain C. A. Edwards, of Branch county; Superintendent of Public Instruction, O. Hasford, of Olivet, renominated ; Attorney General, Dwight May, of Kalamazoo; Member State Board of Education, Witter J. Baxter, of Jonesville.

The Republicans of the Fourth District of Louisiana have nominated General Jas. McClerry for Congress. United States Judge Hugh L. Bond, at Baltimore, has recently decided that Federal courts do not properly have jurisdiction in cases arising under the provisions of the act for the enforcement oi tho Fifteenth Amendment, and that Congress did not intend to interfere with each State’s qualification of its voters, except to remove those imposed by race, color, or previous condition.

ty A statement has been prepared at [ the Treasury Department at Washington, giving a comparison between the expenses of the Government under Buchanan and Grant. It ahowa that during the last fiscal year of Buchanan’s Administration the expenses, per capita , were $3.01. In estimating the present population at forty millions, and deducting from the present expenses such as arose directly from the war, so as to compare such items as make up the usual expenses of the Government, the cost for the fiscal year 1869, per capita, was 1.64. This last amount is made on a gold basis at the average of the year, which was taken at 88 per cent.

rtf- The Scranton (Ponn.) Jfcpubhcan says: "The Democratic padfln to-day la particularly anxious that the history and record of the two neat parties during the past decade should not enter into tit# eniuing campaign—in short, that it should be forgotten. This is not unnatural, though positively unreasonable. That the Democratic party should desire to forget its record is not to be wondered at, for its works during tee war, andsfoce, constitute the crowning shamealtu infamy or its existence.” ff It cost two dollars a head under Buchanan to run the gojcr nmeu Grant it cotta but St-64. Another cyi dence of the failure {of tration. He is no such royal apendtfolft as his Democratic predecessofcaMvti been. . r