Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1871 — Weekly News Summary. [ARTICLE]

Weekly News Summary.

CONGRESSIONAL. In the Senate, on the 26th, the resolution to discharge White and Ramsdell Immediately on the adjournment of the present session was considered under the head.of unfinished business, and the amendment that the discharge of the witnesses should not affect legal proceedings Instituted under the act of January, 1857, was withdrawn and subsequently renewed.... Executive session and adjournment. ‘ In the Senate, on the 27th, the amendment to the resolution to discharge the New York Trißunt's correspondents -Messrs. White and Ramsdell —providing that It shall not bo construed to Interfere with any legal proceedings which may bo Instituted against said White and Ramsdell, upon the certificate of the Vice-President, under the act of January 24,1857, was discussed at considerable length, and finally rejected—lß to 20. The rsolntlon to discharge Messrs. White and Ramsdell from custody at the conclusion of the session was then agreed 10—23 to 13 .. An executive session was held... A resolution was unanimously agreed to tendering the thanks of the Senate to Mr. Anthony for the courtesy and ability with which he lias performed his duties as President of the Senate pro fempore After a discussion of the propriety of removing from Senators the Injunction of secrecy as to proceedings in executive session, the Senate,ats:3sp.m.,adjourned sine Me.

FOREIGN. According to cable dispatches of the 20th the following named public buildings in Paris had been destroyed: Palace of Tuileries, Ministry of Finance, Prefecture of Police, Court of Accounts, Palace of the Legion of Honor, barracks on the Quay d’Orsay, Hotel de Ville, and Mont de Piete. The following leading insurgents had been shot: Vellcs, Amoreux, Brunel, Rigault, Dombrowski, and Bousquet. ■lt was rumored that all the hostages held by the insurgents were safe, but nothing positive was known in relation to them. A Versailles dispatch of the night of the 25th says Archbishop Darbois, ten hostages and nearly fifty priests were murdered in cold blood at Mazas prison on the night of the 23d. It has been announced that the triumphal entry of the German army into Berlin will take place on June 16, and that June 18 will be observed as a day of thanksgiving throughout the empire. A dispatch from Versailles on the 28th says the insurgents had shot the Archbishop of Paris, Abbe Duguerre, and six-ty-two other hostages remaining in their possession. The troops had previously captured La Roquctte and saved 169 hostages Retained there. According to a dispatch from Versailles on the evening of the 28th, the insurrection in Paris was completely suppressed, not one band of insurgents being left. The firemen had the flames under control. It is reported that there were, on the 27th, upward of 50,000 dead bodies in the houses and cellars of Paris, many of them those of women and children. General Vinoy has been appointed Governor of Paris by Thiers. A New York despatch of th 29th ult. says: “ The loss of property in Paris is estimated at hundreds of millions of dollars. It is said the city will not be, in this, or in the next generation, what it has been. The report that 60,000 persons had been killed is believed to be an exaggeration, although there is no doubt the number will at least reach 40,000. The slaughter of the insurgents—men and women — is declared to have been frightful beyond description. Cable dispatched of the 30th describe Paris as a vast graveyard. It was believed inat 15,000 to 20,000 people had been shot since the Versaillists entered the city. MacMahon’s Soldiers spared no one whom they suspected of sympathy with the insurgents. Both sides seemed to be wrought up to desperation and madness. With the exception of Pyatt and Gransert, all the Commune Chiefs had been kith*! or taken prisoners. It was calculated that 49,000 insurgents had been killed during the preceding week. Sixty thousand prisoners had been taken. Thirty-three Communists, including seyen women were publicly executed on thp plaza in front of the Hotel de Ville in Paris, on thnfflst, by being shot by a company of Bolcners. Six volleys were fired before all the victims were slain. The Bishop of Orleans, M. Dupanloup, will be the successor of M. Darboy as Archbishop of Paris. Minister Washburn telegraphed on the 81st that order had once more been restored in Paris. As far as ascertained, American citizens and property had escaped uninjured. Hesaid.it was difficult to tell who will be the coming man or the form of government ’ likely to be adopted. There’will, he says, be a desperate struggle among the different interests. A Vienna dispatch of the’ 31st says: “ President Grant has requested the Austrian Government to allow Baron Von Lederer, its Minister to the United States, to preside over the arbitration of the Cuban claims, and imperial permissidh has been telegraphed to Washington.” A Paris dispatch of the Ist says: “The French journals are greatly divided in sentiment as to the future of the country. The Opinione, Bien Public, Politique, Siede and Constitutionnel favor the continuance of the republic, while the Temps, Nationals and Patrie arc very guarded in their comments upon the situation. The Opinione thinks the withdrawal of Thiers would be equivalent to a revolution. The Siede says Thiers is as energetic against the Bonapartes as the’'Reds. The Figaro* favors a monarchy. The sale of newspapers on the street is prohibited. The Siede was seized this morning. Executions have ceased. > Prisoners are now on trial at Versailles. The barricades in Paris numbered 400." The London Times of the Ist, in an editorial, while admitting that it is hard for s ■ the Canadians to yield their fisheries to the Americans without the advantages of reciprocity in trade, expresses the earnest hope ’.hat Canada will loyally ratify the I treaty of Washington. domestic. Gold closed in Jieiw York on the. Ist fit

When asked, on the 26th, why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, Foster replied, in a clear voice: “ I had been drinking a good deal that day and night, and did not know what I was doing. I had no intention of killing Putnam, and I am very sorry for it.” He then burst into tears. The Judge in passing sentence said the prisoner had had a patient trial by an intelligent Jury, mostly of his own selection; but the case was too clear to come to any other conclusion than the one arrived at. He could hold out no hope whatever to him of a commutation of sentence, and the prisoner should be prepared to meet his awful doom. Sen tence was then passed that he should be hung on the 14th of July next. Judge Dowling, New York city, on the 27th, sentenced the prize fighters Collins and Edwards, who were recently captured while engaging in a fight on Long Island, to twelve months’ imprisonment and a fine of SI,OOO each. The umpire, Thomas McAlpine, jwas sentenced to six months’ imprisonment and a fine of SSOO. A terrible accident occurred at a coal mine at Pittston, Pa., on the 27th. A breaker at the mouth of the shaft took fire, and the mine was filled with gas and smoke while thirty-eight men were working in it. It was some hours before anything could be done to rescue the workmen. At last all were taken out, eighteen being dead by suffocation, and nearly all the rest in a state of unconsciousness. The fire was caused by the friction of the wood work of the breaker. German peace celebrations were held in many of the large cities at the East and West on the 29th. The one in Chicago is said to have been the most extensive and imposing civic display ever witnessed in that city. The procession was ten miles long, and was three hours in passing a given point. • 1 The Tennessee industrial Exposition, at Nashville, closed on Nay 27. It was a success. Governor Scott, of South Carolina, had a long interview with President Grant in Washington on the 26th, in which he said there was no necessity for putting the State under martial law, and that there was a good state of feeling among the better classes of citizens to put down the Ku-Klux organizations. A teirible tragedy was enacted near Richfield, Summit County, Ohio, on the evening of the 27th. It seems a young man named John Hunter, of Carson City, Michigan, had been a suitor of the daughter of Robert Gargett, a farmer living in Richfield Township, but was discarded. On the evening of the 27th Hunter went to Mr. Gargett’s house, and met the old gentleman at the gate, and demanded to see the young lady. Upon being told that he could not see her, he drew a revolver and fired a bullet into Mr. Gargett’s head. He then rushed into the house and shot Mrs. Gargett, killing her instantly. Rodney Gargett, a young man, seized the ruffian, anil was also in the head, but not dangerously. Miss Gargett escaped by leaping from a secondstory window, and taking refuge in a neighbor’s house. Hunter was arrested’ Robert Gargett would probably die of lhe wound received.

A Detroit dispatch of the 30th says reports from all parts of Michigan represent the crop and fruit prospect as splendid, with the single exception of potatoes, which would probably be generally destroyed by the bugs. Tuesday, May 30, was very generally observed throughout the country as Decoration Day. Several of the miners taken out of the Pittson (Pa.) mine alive, died on the 29th, and many,others were in a critical state. The Methodist Book Concern Committee on the 29th decided to suspend Rev. Dr. Lanahan from the assistant agency of the Institution, and appointed June 8 for the investigation of the charges presented against him by Rev. Dr. Carlton. It is reported from Washington that the Senate left the following treaties undisposposed of: The postal treaty with Ecuador, the treaty of commerce with Italy, and the treaty with Mexico, extending the time of the commission for settling claims until January, 1872. ■ ■ The suit of L. P. Milligan against Senator Morton, Gen. Hovey, and others, tried before the United States Court at Indianapolis, has resulted in a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for the sum of five dollars. It is said the defendants will appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States. '

A letter from Jacksbow, Texas, says that on May 18th a band of some hundred Indians attacked Henry Warner’s train, twenty miles from there, killing seven men belonging to the train, and wounding one. General Sherman, who was at Fort Richardson at the time, ordered four companies of cavalry in pursuit, with.instructions to drive the Indians into Fort Sill, saying .that, if he found they were Fort Sill Indians, he would stop the Indian trade in that quarter. A fire in Mobile, Ala., on the night of the 29th, destroyed business property to the value of about $300,000. The Pennsylvania Central, New York Central, and Erie railroads have advanced rates West on first-class freight as follows: New York to Chicago, $1,00; to Cincinnati, 93 cents; to Indianapolis, 90 cents; to Keokuk, $1.34; to Kansas City, $1.84; to Grand Rapids, sf.2l; to Louisville, 95 cents; to Milwaukee, <l-00; to Nashville, $1.13; to St. Louis, $1.29, and other points in proportion. The coroner’s jury in the recent disaster at Pittston, Pa., rendered a verdict declaring that the miners met their death from the improper ventilation of the mine; that when the breaker took fire there was no means of 1 supplying the men with fresh air; that the means of ventilation were not such as are required by the act of March-80,1870; they alw find that

there was negligence on the part of the employes of the company in not keeping portions of the machinery properly oiled; and that the company had employed on the day es the accident a greater number of men than the act already referred to warrants. The following is the statement of the public debt June 1: Debt bearing coin interestsl,BM,J»VW) Interest. 37,M)2,6t8 Debt bearing currency Interest 49,123,000 Interest 359,772 Matured debt 1,999,002 Interest 307,128 Debt bearing no Interest 4H),818.965 Unclaimed Interest.....'t.. 12,912 Total debt principa152,359,067,717 Interest 38,672,431 Grand t0ta152,397,740,147 Coin iu Treasury $89,744,375 Currency in Treasury 8,881,588 $ 98,605,1)63 Debt, less cash In Treasurys2,29'.), 131,184 Decrease during May 4,43'),858 Decrease since March 1, 1871 $21,574,862 Decrease since March 1,1869... 226,329,075 The statement of bitfids Issued to the Pacific Railroad companies shows totals as follows: Principals64,6lß,B32 Interest accrued, not yet paid 10,753,910 Interest repaid by the transportation of mails.. 2,870,716 Balance Interest paid by the United 5tate57,877,193

PERSONAL. I A game of base-ball played in New York city on the 26th, between the amateur Stars, of Brooklyn, and Olympics, of Washington, resulted in the defeat of the Stars—2l to 20. In New York city on the 26th, the Haymakers, of Troy, defeated the Mutuals, of New York, in a game of base ball—2s to 10. On the 29th, the Chicago White Stockings beat the Eckfords, of Brooklyn —lO to 5. Mrs. Rebecca Wells, mother of ex-Com-missioner of Internal Revenue David A. Wells, died at Springfield, Mass., on the 28th, aged 8-1 years. A Washington dispatch of the 29th says Vice-President Colfax had so far recovered that his entire convalescence was considered certain. In a game of base-ball at Boston on the 29th, the Red Stockings, of that city, defeated the Forest Citys, of Rockford, Hl. —25 to 11. At Brooklyn, on the 30th, the Chicago White Stockings defeated the amateur Stars, of New York city—7 to 1. The second trial of Congressman Bowen, for bigamy in marrying Mrs. Susan P. King while his wife, Mrs. Frances Bowen, was living, in Augusta, 8. C., began at Washington on the 30th. Horace Greeley left New Orleans, bn the 30th, on tlie steamer R. E. Lee, for Vicks burg. In Baltimore, on the 30th, the Pastime Base Ball Club, of that city, beat the Haymakers, of Troy—2s to 22. A match game of ball played in Philadelphia, on the 31st, between the Experts, of that city, and the Olympics, of Washington, was won by the latter—2s to 7. Vice-President Colfax left Washington on the evening of the 31st for his home at South Bend, attended by his regular physician. Wm. E. Chambers, aged 88, died recently in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was the oldest Odd Fellow in America. <He was initiated in London in the year 1801, and was one of the five members to establish the order here, five years after. In a game of base ball at Boston, on the Ist, the Chicago White Stockings beat the Lowells —18 to .8.

POLITICAL. The United States Senate has ratified the additional treaty between the United States and Great Britain, defining more clearly some of the provisions of the naturalization treaty. Local elections were recently held in Virginia, the Conservatives carrying Richmond, Lynchburg, Norfolk and Alexandria, and the Republicans being successful in Petersburg, Charlotte and Staunton. The Rhode Island General Assembly met at Newport on the 30th, to organize a State Government for the ensuing year. Walter B. Vincent was elected Clerk of the Senate; Charles B. Van Zandt was elected Speaker of the House, and J. M. Adderman and Iri O. Seamens, Clerks. The Canvassing Committee reported no choice far Lieutenant Governor, and a ballot was taken in joint convention, and Pardon W. Stevens, of Newport, Republican candidate and present incumbent, was chosen —62 to 37. The Nebraska Legislature met on the 30th. „ . , The Massachusetts Legislature was prorogued on the 31st. Three hundred and ninety-nine bills and ninety-five resolves were signed by the Governor. In the Connecticut Senate, on the 31st, the ponstitutional amendment providing for only one State Capitol was lost by a vote of 13 to 8, lacking one vote of the necessary two-thirds required to submit it to the people. The United States District Attorney at Washington has announced his intention to’ prosecute the four recusant witnesses handed over to him by the Senate to be punished for contempt: He intends to make them test cases, in order to settle some questions arising under the act. The impeachment trial of David Butler, Governor of Nebraska, was concluded on the Ist, and the vote of the Senate on the first article resulted in his conviction—9 to 3.

The Ohio Democratic State Convention met at Columbus on the Ist and made the following nominations: For Governor, George W. McCook; Lieutenant-Governor, Samuel F. Hunt; Attorney-General, Mr. Wallace, of Clark; Auditor of State, Col. R. J. Cockerill, of Adams; State Treasurer, Dr. Bruehl, of Hamilton; Supreme Judge, George W. Geddes, of Richland; Member of Board of Public Works, Arthur Hughes, of Cuyahoga. A cow died in Nashville, Tenn., a few days ago, of the effect# of trie bite of a cat.