Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1871 — Weekly News Summary. [ARTICLE]

Weekly News Summary.

r In the Senate; on the lfith,* rebolutiod wm pr**ent*U «pd Te(*rr«a from » cenunlttos r«p)-S*BDtlnp the Peniwylvanla Legislature, tbit Oomwon Coancfl and the Franklin iMtttnte, Of FWlaUulphla, giving reason* why the celebration ,of the centennial snnlverssry of our national in* SE?SUMS «a«HaraSi ourued to t(ie] jflth, ■ -r “ In-the House, "on tlie I3tj. the Senate MB antborlxtng an h:crease of. five per cent. Htflng bond*.to *600,000,000, Interest payable qaar. J tmtty, was amended,soto payment, yf, Interest dnarteily to tha discretion of the Secretary pt tne Treasury, aftd prorffllng that the total Sit of funding bonds shall not, be increased, e bill, as amended, waapSed... .Bills were need and refeiw*Hl»«sWMMi tha aateries of olAcers of the Treasury Department: providing sos n commission to atlak rfloHlyis for damages by the steamers Alabaml, Shenandoah, Florida and Oeorgla, with their tenders, and tor bond# of too! united BUtce for * thereof,...The Legislative. Fxecntlve ana Judicial Appropriation bill was further eonaidcrtdta OOmmlttoeof the Whole.,.. Adjourned. In u| rt Mttti, the House bill lncfetolß<!»«oiioni oftMldisra sndjwldoW*. td?SS4^Sm«S3!«' sssspe N atih n al; Aayhims for dhakled soldleis. atDajton,- - was taken np add debated. .Xxecnflya sysslon aud adjournment. ' : . -fmrs i: M, u mtfudacedAndrefc’rr*<? topri)Tiaeto?ihScWg tlmony nsad Wore tha departments; .to eotfl>!« the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad Company,to.,mortgage its road; authorising the appoStaent of a commissioner jo ascertain the damage lone by toe Al-. Wn and other Confederate crtWersf jbr the •e3R3r nt a pottlon of tod Part**# dwt.lom toe LTthWo«M-WTo» tdoner W the Land Ofllfc«(fbr »Heal|ng-a»olentl(tc musenm at the Land Office.... The credentials, of N £rioe, B. Young and »wrtu Rejpre-. fiesffiieairae testant, Nmtomiiel anyden, receiyp iffflO ftr jpft Isl theßeiirie, H«‘the Wtt# the rfbttte amendments'" to lSe’’>hUU Vntherlzing 'the’ 'tome -of an iddlttonal ga0U,900,000 of ssn iSM*sys; and ldd over for anroidment.. //The bill codlnc to the Stato qf Ohio jurisdiction.over, the ground, <mcnpled By itid Dayton SoUlere’Home fttopaitod -fe to M.—The bill to rehmd to to® . anoneys.advanced to the rovernment daring the .file civil war, was token Up and Varloasty-ameafled ... .Kxecntlvaaaiaion apjd,«ijonr«ment. ' . Jn the-Hpuse, on (ft? ,11% J»gplv Mfered and referred, antooSxfng toe President to appoint three commissioners to examine and rp. ■ port aa to the distribution of aid grantod’oy the government to the IhCTfIC aiffdtter railroad- comHe Legislative, Naval and JBHtary Academy ApQ JBi thd - Senate, on the; lbfetr, a. hill waa Treaaury to redeem, to lawfhl money, all copper, l nickel, and other ba»e coinage, whon presented In same of not toss tkwrtwmty dollara....An advene report was made from the Finance Committee on the MU relative to good* nturchaaed to t bn pot ha-' !lS. , ffS r Affi , Sd ,7 Jhr-*rSa!!S!VS adopted directmg the Comnittee on the Jndicary to examine and report how far Congress to anthersros3.’ssi,rs,’.jsxrrssi!s»3 esfeWASTT. 2,i2!!5“«£a: •ton en»u,cd on a motion to lake tom top table the ’documents and papers reeenfly laid before toe Senate V>y the President In reference to the coadltiqn of the Southern States....Bxecntire session and adjournment. In the House, on the lßth, bills.' were passed—Legislative' and Post-Office Appropriation bills; gbnat*bill, l with amendments, anthorixllig the sal» of certain landa reserved, for the nae pf the Menomlhcb tribe of Indians In Wisconsin; Senate Hll for the relief of the Stockbridge and Monroe tribes of Indians In Wtoconili.;i.A bill Waa Introduced and referred, to enable the people of Waehlngton Territory to form a conatßution and State government as s State of the: Union... . A resolution was adopted*exonerattag Mr. Brooke flom charges made by Mr. Hastings, and discharging the select oommlttee from further consideration onthe snhjcet... .Adjourned. •< Inwtho Senate, on the’ 10th, bills were passed—to abolish the office* of Admiral and Vice-Admiral-withe Navy, the offices to continue until » Vacancy occur*; appropriating S4,t»B to pay a mortgage exOcuted'by’aMir.'lfarmon, of Bast T*aftr bridged)arnftig opCratfens tu Sut Tennmreee witfiraEir^ toe establishment of an nmpiie to prevent wars.... from tha West to tkO seaboard, aad'unlfcrm rates the Portland.; JBttUhmd, Oewegp. * Chicago P/jßxOctitlTUeetolonkndadlonnimMit. t ’■

' IB tbe House, on the 19th,'UIIb were introduced and referred to aid felbaxonetructlon of twenty or more finjt-class steamshlps ( together With shipyards, machine shorn, rolling mills, wharfs, flocks, *c., with security to the government for the use of the same for postal, naval, and other purposes: to allow Imported railroad Iron was reported from the Committee «• „lUt- < dlan Affairs to provide for toe consolidation dr Indian Irlbss, add to organise a system atlon fr>r improving the Maumee Klver above Toledo . - - -The bill extending the time to construct a railroad from St. Crotk RWar, of Lake, to the was* end of Lake Superior, or to Bayfield, came up and was debited at conaMardbWlength'.. .A memorial s^^'%Ai’6SSSr!«JSt , £f SiS.£ ; 5SSS«i3Kj'* the Whole,. vAdJomnad. < i :.lip:n , i,l | .j ' i yitcd 3 fOREIOIf. l -sfu r “ 1/ “Loiuteh' of ’thi iStb thfl .y&kh army, hndtT' 7 De the pommandcd i»y rrmbe Frederick Charlie And tW Gntttd Duke of Meokfepber*. The <1&. i»*ns occupied Im Man*, 1 eijpttirli£ Hirg* .nffhfwir

Another terrible «ptoslMl haa occurred' in a colliery near Newcastle, England. YVenty persoito were killed or ffljureto i.iTbe Very Rev. Henrr Alfred, D. 0., Dean of Canterbury, ob the 13th, ih the filet year Of his aga* m il W at The British Foreign Office has received telegraphic4ispatche*ftoin fflg.Legatipn, at P«ldn, dated December 81. They report that there hadbeeh no farther troubles, and that advices from Chinese ports wereaattsfiwtery..g |a > >; . ; tote '-ffa f <f m 1 A ( VersaiUep dispatch of ( the evqpine of thC lSth says the bombardment had been going on with unabated activity all day,, -ana banflagrations were distinctly visible in numerous places throughout the city, Frederick Charles entered Le Mans on the 13th..' 18,000 of- Chanzy’s fores* had barn taken prisoners fry the Germans. A London telegram, or the 14th says the Conference of the Great jWfete on the Biabk Sea question had tbeen summoned to meet in that city on the 17%.inst, Dispatches received in New Yqrk pn the liJth Sklcaifed that Paris' was in a A*-' pCrate strait. The southwest suburban • part of the City was in Wins, and seemed .hopelessly given up to the ravages, of .the Prussian fire. , , ' felng WHUam fc the-Queen* from Verseßles, under date of the 18th, Aat the number «f ,'eapfcred atthe, recent Battles at Le Manff had increased to fully 25,000. It, wh announced at London otttha 18th that Gun. Chanzy’s Army -of the Ltdre. Had been organized, and was *tbqut to resumc operations. , AdvtcCs from Paris received in London on : the 18th report 4hat the *fire s os the French batteries was improving, and «a the w est side was especially effective, dq T , Jag much damage to the German position. Boqrbaki attacked the. Germans before Belfort on the Isth, «»dwas repulsed along tte Whole line. Tbe co»]»t was, obstiijlffl, and lasted till dark. The French renewed the fight on the 16th, aiid were again repulsed with heavy lpes iniiljed. The New York Herald's London special *&f the 17th says, oh the “ most unquestionable authority,” that Bhnnark was very seriously and fatally ill. * The N. Y. World’s London special of •ihe 17th question held an informal session and adjourned to the 36th. . Alencon has been captured by 0»e troops under the Duke of Mecklenburg. DOMESTIC. . Gold closed in. New York on the 10th The Wisconsin S&te dett, according to the recent message of Governor Fairchild, is 42.255R57. The . resources Of the State for 1871 are $1,088,823.24 ; estimated expenditures, $1,041,748.84. v The steamer F. L. McGill, of St. Louis Aom New Orleans, was burned at ShooFly Bar, bn the Mississippi, on the. night of the 14th; The number of lives lqs| is about thirty, including- four wop** and three children: n*j < ; - ij. • , . X AJI bat five of the shoe manufactories of New York city, lately suspended on occasion of the Crispin strike, *haVe resumed work, generally conceding to the Crispin .terras. L .The total debt of Massachusetts, fended tand unfunded; in $28,280,881.93, and the sinking fend for its redemption amounts to $15,000,000. The debt was deceased |2,552.408.Q9 during the last year. "■ The Jersey City Water works were repaired on the 14th. **»-'; In the Illinois House of Beprtoentative* on the 16th a resolution to discontinue the redding of the Bible in the public schools Wto offeiptland fabled, , A Memphis dispatch of the 1701 says it was thought that fifty-eight live* iVere tost by the recent gfcamer'HcGiii dlssster.' 1 '■ The Postmaster-Gbnend estimateii the total number, of franked letters for six mouths at' 10,894,4071 postage, $933,070; printed matier,- etc., 2,635,104 pounds; postage, $338,593. Total postage fo* six mopthfl, $1,271,863. Total in one ycw.'i $2,543,326. • ; A convention in favor of the recognition of the Almighty in the Constitution, met at Philadelphia on the 18th. News fr.om the philosophers on Mount Washington, says that January 11, when Prof Smith went oat to measure the velocity of the wind, he was gone only five* minutes, but returned covered with a coat of frost two inctoes thick, from top to toe. > ; The Commlastouer of Internal Revenue appeared before the Committee of. Ways and Means on the 10th, and strongly urged Ule immediate repeal of the incline tax, -Oh the ground that the total feventte from this source does'not equal the cost of its cOllectiod. *>,"<&•*

It to aow thought that atJeaaf twelve lives weare yjoatjqr the burning of the SpotavsyodHotelat Richmond. x PERSONAL. A Washington special of the-iffth* says Hon. B. F. Wade is tobe president of the amS i-TwSi memoers are nesiacni Atuirew u. w nwf of Cornell TJntTwfsity, and Dr. SamuelQh. Howe, of Boston. General Brim* Sigsl declined theappointment of Secretary to the Gommiretan, on the ground that he «m hot think himaeU 1 sufficiently acquainted Hon. Allan €t HutomW Keutndky ,h*f in htoplaoe. u i*;| -» V! Tito Senate, Irr executive sssrion op the* 18th, confirmed the nomination of Viee-Ad-Atral Porter to be AdSßtoeh byif vote of . Justice Byron Paine, fegjßft&gaPw , 1 Blbis "ft Co., New York, has been eledtea'TWifr bf tl*p Union Paeifio RiilrtM, i* ’ plaea'i>f'Ohhes’Aides; reilfus(f(i4 ! ’ » *.*.,• ' -da*. *«*> h&f >•*/

The Beefoßeß tifeb (White Stocking*) hiuibeen re organized for the aeaaoq of 1871. and is composed as follows f Martin King, catcher (-George Zettlein, pitfcher ;< Michael McAtee,: drat betomaq;. JAmcs Wood, second baseman; Edward ,Pjqkbam, third baseman; Edward Duffy, short stop ;• BagnrCuthb#rt, odhtef fielder ; Frederick Trency, Left folder; Joseph Simmons, right fielder. EdwardAt water and Thomas Foley, substitutes. /A Ndw Ytftk dty dispatch bfthdlTlh, tys there was scarcely toy doubt that the atlian murderer would, soon bo arrested. Kigc Cardozo, In an interview with a reporter, tells the startling story that Colonel Whitely, Chief df the United States Secret Service,., openly declared that the paurdorer w#p the - detectives be brought to Jggtice at an .early; The oohfession of P'mton tliaU.be is themurderer of Rogers, is pronounced n lie. Me was confined in the Toombs at the time of the murder. ” The United States steamship Tennessee sailed on the 17th, with the San Domingo Commissioners on board. Tk? scientifics wffo accompany the expedition aba Prof William P. Blake, principnl mineralogist and geologist, aud. two assistants, from Harvard f Di\ Ppiy,.botanist,; a* sistant from' the Cambridge ■ Scientific School j'TStff/Newcoftfb, of Cornell University, general naturalist ;<ProC Ward, University of Rochester, assistant geologist; Hon.- Mr. Seddens, ex-Presldent of the Michigan State Agricultural Society, . and the State Engineer, invited in the agyriouttpral interest :«i i > ;sit f Go/: Among.-,|be nominations, sent to the Beiiatoen the l§th were: J. J. Hoffman, Superintendent of Indian Affhlra, Wash-ington-Territory ; Thomas ReyhoMs, Pdnsion Agent at Madison, Wisconsin; W.il-. liam E, Davis, Pension Agent at Cincianatt ' Postmasters—James A. Penny, Idaho City; Henry C. Jlarep, Muncie, Ind.; John A Banyan, WaffiS#, Ind.; Hiram N. Goodspeed, Dlgonier, Ini The Lincoln memorial statue in the rp-, tunda of the at Columbtfo, bhio, - wan unveiled on the 19thu . Gov. Hays presided,- and, speeches, were nude by Gen. Durkin Ward and Gen. V{. H. Enochs. *' 1 ' '■ r> ' “ ' ■ ' * * » ' T » _ POLITICAL. The Hon. James Pike, the Republican candidate. for Governor of Hew Hampshire, is a Methodist preacher and ptMding elder, a active of Massachusetts, 52 years old, and a graduate of the Wesleyan University at Middletown, Conn. .. At the city election of Middleton, Conn;, - on the 16th, the entire Republican ticket was telectedby a majority of 19. Hon. Henry Wilton was re-elected United States Senator^- by the Massachusetts Legislature, on the 17th The JfMnfe Legislature elected Hon. Lot M.Morrill. The Connecticut Democratic State Convention, on the 17th, renominated the pres•nt State officers by acclamation. The Illinois Legislature on the 17th elected Hpn. John A. Logan as United Staten The vote stood, in the in the House, 101 for Logan, 70 for Turner, Sftor Wnt fa. Snyder. The following is the vote for United States Senator in the Missouri Legislature .on the 17th: Senate—Blair 18; Henderson 17. House—Blair 87 ,• Henderson 43. " The Democrats of the Second New Hampshire District have nominated Samuel Hi Bell* of Manchester, fbf. Congress. TTie New Jersey Legtolature-has elected F. T. Frelmghyysen to'the United States Senate; and GoVe Bsulsbnry, brother of the present incumbent, is- the Senator-elect from Delaware. ’ The Minnesota Legislature on the 17th electett ‘ITon. William Windom United Stated Senator for the long term, and O. P. Stearns for theihort term. The heads of the rix Chinese companies oi Ban Ftaaotsco, are taking steps to bap ttin late decision of the Supreme Court of that State, denying rite ndmissability of the testimony of aChhtamnn in a courtof justice, taken up to the Supreme Courfof the United Stdlto on a writ of error. The Nebraska Legislature on the 16th, elected Phlneta W. Hitchcock to be United States Senator (pun thgt State. Hon. T. If. Feny ia United States Sen-ator-elect from Michigan, to succeed Mr. Howard. *i