Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1871 — Weekly Nows Summary. [ARTICLE]

Weekly Nows Summary.

THE OLD WORLD. An Imperial decree has been issued ordering that June 18 be observed throughout Germany as a day of thanksgiving. A New York disjiiatcb of the lid says: “ Paris advices report a very strong reaction against the Yersaillists; that Thiers will be forced to resign; that the calm intelligence of the favors a constitutional monarchy, and That either the Bourbons or Napoleon will rule. Louis Napoleon’s agents are said to be using their influence to insure a plebiscite , which they believe will make his restoration almost certain. ” A Versailles dispatch of the 3d says papers had been discovered which show that the operations of the Communists were directed from London. The Versailles Assembly has voted 1,053,000 francs for the purpose of rebuilding the house of Thiers. Minister Schenck, Earl do Grey, Lord Tenterden, aud Sir Stafford Northcote arrived at Liverpool on the 3d. The former was presented with an address of welcome by the Chamber of Commerce of that city, to which he made an appropriate response. The new fortresses for the interior of Paris have been located at Montmartre and Chaumont, and engineers have already commenced work upon them. A Paris telegram of the 6th says the postal service was completely resumed. It was reported that twenty thousand Communist prisoners would be transported to New Caledonia. The discovery of important documents, rendering new indictments necessary, had delayed trials by 1 court-martial at Versailles. A Versailles dispatch of tjie 6th says the following appointments bad been announced by the Journal Officielr Lambrecht, Minister of the Interior; LeFriknc, Minister of Agriculture; General Cissey, Minister of War; Leon Jay, Prefect of the Seine; General Lefla, Ambassador to St Petersburg. Trauquility prevailed throughout France. The trial of Rochefort and Assy had been postponed. Advices from Hong Kong to May 26th report that the coolie ship from Macao for Callao, was burned at sea, and 600 coolies perished in the flames. A Berlin dispatch of the 6th says the commercial relations between Germany and France have been restored to the same footing as before the war. An encyclical letter has been issued at Rome calling on the Catholics throughout the world to give thanks to God on the occasion of the Pope’s Jubiled. According to the detailed accounts of the capture of Paris and the destruction which ensued, as given in correspondence aud foreign files, the red days of ’9B were more than excelled in terror, for to the prodigal effusion of blood by the infuriated Versaillists was added the spectacle of the burning of Paris by the defeated and retreating Communists. The Verite estimates the damage to Paris from fighting and conflagrations at 800,000,000 francs. A cable dispatch of the 7th says Thiers insists on giving the Republic a fair trial. All the pieces of the Column Vendome had been found, and the monument will be exactly restored. Twenty-five women were killed and fifty injured by a railway accident near Paris on the 6th. The British House of Lords has passed the hill authorizing Canada to organize territorial governments in the country lying between the Dominion and the Pacific coast. In the French Assembly on the Bth the law proscribing the Orleans Princes was abrogated, and the election of the Duke d’ Aurnale and Prince de Joiuville to seats in the Assembly was declared valid by a vote of 448 to 113. The Marquis Gallifet was assassinated in Paris on the Bth by the widow of ono of the Communists who had been shot by his order. L The funeral ceremonies in Paris, on the 7th, over the remains of five of tho clerical victims of the Commune were solemn imd impressive. _ A letter received from 'treasurer Spinner, dated London, May 23, conveys intelligence of the improved health of that officer, who had commenced operations in connection with the negotiations tor the new loan. i , The Emperor of Russia and his son Alexis, with a brilliant staff, recently arrived in Berlin, They were received at the'station by the Emperor William and his staff, and escorted to the palace by the Imperial Guard. Recent advices from Montevideo represent the condition of affairs in the city of Buenos Ayres as not only not having,, improved, hut as having grown alarmingly worse. About the Ist of May-the yellow fever seemed to be abating, and many refugees returned. The disease again broke out violently, and the returned citizens fled in a panic. The seat of government was about being removed to Rosaria. At last advices all communication between Montevideo and Buenos Ayres was positively prohibited. THE NEW WORLD. Gold closed in New York on the Bth at 112)4. J At Boston, on the 2d, the Chicago White Stocking Base-Ball Club defeated the Boston Red Stockings—l 6to 14. In New' York city the Eckfords, of Brooklyn, beat the Rockford Forest Citys—7 to 6. The .president has appointed Hon. George Bancroft, late Minister to Prussia, as Minister to the German Empire. Washington, on the 2d, the Olympics, of that city, defeated the Haymakers, of Troy, in a championship game of base ball-11 to 8. Brigham Young was eighty years old on the Ist of June. ,

Vice-President Colfax reached his home nt South Bend, Ind., on the 2d, ip a much improved condition. He was discharged from medical treatment with tho injunction that he spend more time iu recreation, which he has promised to do. Hon. Samuel K. Casey, State Senator of Illinois, died at his residence in Mount Vernon on the night of the Ist. Ex-Fire Marshal U. P. Harris, of Chicago, died suddenly in that city on the 2d, of congestion of the brain. He was fiftythree years of age. A correspondence has been published in tho Leavenworth Times between Wm. Lsrmore of that city, and Horace Greeley, relative to the use of the latter’s name be-. fore tho next National Republican Convention as a candidate for President of the United States. In his reply Mr. Greeley says: “I trust never henceforth to be an aspirant for any office or political position whatever, but fully purpose never to decline any duty or responsibility my political friends may see fit to devolve upon me, and of which I shall be able to fulfil the obligations without neglecting other and more important duties.” Governor Butler, of Nebraska, has been removed from office, and the impeachment court has adjourned sine die. At Philadelphia, on the 3d, a gamo of base ball was played by tho Atlantics, of that city, and the Haymakers, of Troy, the former winning by a score of 15 to 5. In New York the Rockford Forest Citys defeated the Stars, of Brooklyn—23 to 10. At Boston, the White Stockings, of Chicago, beat the Harvards—l2 to 2. Bishop Whitehouse, of the Episcopal Church, has passed the sentence of degradation against the Rev. Charles E. Cheney, of Chicago, the effect of which is to place that clergyman outside of the regular organization of the Episcopal Church. The Chicago Journal says: “ Being, however, sustained in his course by the membership and congregation of Christ Church, of which he is the rector, Mr. Cheney will continue to preach and conduct the services there as usual.” A dispatch from . New Orleans on the 4th, says the inundation there was extending, and included all west of Franklin street, between the old and new canals. The Pontchartrain Railroad, from Gentilly Station to the lake, was six or eight inches under water, though the cars were still running. In the charter election at Norwich, Conn., on the sth, James Lloyd Greene, Republican, was elected Mayor over James A. Hovey, Democrat, by 310 majority. The average Republican majority on the entire ticket was about 300. The Chicago White Stockings and the Mutuals, of New York, played a game of base-ball in the latter city on the sth. Score Btos in favor of the Mutuals. At Philadelphia, the Rockford Forest Citys beat the Athletics, of Philadelphia—ll to 10. The trial of C. C. Bowen for bigamy was concluded at Washington on the 3<j, the jury returning a verdict of guilty. A motion fora new trial was made, and the prisoner was held iu $5,000 bail. The President has appointed George W. Curtis, of New York; Joseph Medill, of Chicago; Alexander G. Cattell, of New Jersey; Damson A. Walker, of Pennsylvania ; E. B. Elliott, of the Treasury Department, and Joseph H. Blackfan, of the Post-Office Department, to carry out the object of that clause in the appropriation bill passed March 3,1871, authorizing the President to prescribe such rules and regulations for the admission of persons intothe civil service of the United States as will best promote the efficiency thereof, and to ascertain the fitness of each candi* date iu respect to age, health, character, knowledge and ability for the service into which he seeks to enter. The Board will convene on the 28th at the Interior Department. At San Francisco on the 3d, the motion for a new trial in the Fair murder case was overruled, the attempt to impeach jurors having failed, and Judge Dwindle, after briefly alluding to the crime and the impartial trial she had had, sentenced Laura D. Fair to be hanged, On the 28th day of July. lion. Joshua Van Sant has been nominated for Mayor of Baltimore by the Democratic and Conservative" Convention. The election takes place in October, The International Typographical Union met at Baltimore on the sth. Sixty-four Unions were represented by seventy eight delegates. Wm. J. Jlammond, of New Orleans, was re-elected President. The other officers chosen are: JI. R. Walsh, of New York, First Vice-President; J. A. Cussley, of Baltimore, Second Vice-Presi-dent ; John Collinsj of Cincinnati, Secretary and Treasurer; and Frederick K. Tracey, of Chicago, Corresponding Secretary. Letters were recently received hy Mr. Rislcy, at Washington, from his daughters, stating that Mr Seward and his party were at Suez on the sth of May, and were going thence through Egypt. They had already traveled over 30,000 miles. A Washington dispatch of the 6th says there “is absolutely no truth in the recently published Washington dispatch that General Sickles had notified the Spanish Government that the question of restoring the sequestrated estates of Americans in Cuba must be settled as the alternative of the employment of force. These very claims arc referred with ail matters in dispute for settlement by the Convention recently concluded. The idea of force, therefore, is preposterous.” It is stated that the salaries of postmasters throughout the country'are-to be readjusted on the basis of their receipts during July and August this year, and a new schedule of salaries will go into effect July 1,1872. Rumors having been circulated that the Department of Agriculture had predicted a very" short crop of cotton in JB7l, a

Washington dispatch of . tho 6th says it is proper to state that no estimates of tho growing crop have been mode officially. “No reports concerning it have been issued this season, on an estimate of comparative acreage, and the statement of the condition of the crop will be made in about two weeks.” Two whites ami ono negro, herders, were scalpedontheltdby tho Brule Sioux, near McPherson, Neb. Tho samo band ran off a herd of horses near there. A dispatch from New Orleans on tho evening of tho 6th says 2,500 houses had their ground floor under water. More, than that number of families were homeless and desolate. The damage by the flood was estimated at $500,000. The population of Montreal, Canada, is 160,000, according to a recent census. At tho recent Homeopathic! Convention at Philadelphia, a resolution was adopted declaring that the exclusion of medical men from positions of honor and trust in the public institutions of the country or in the government service on account of their medical opinions, is an abuse of power and ought no longer to be tolerated. The bridge of the North Weare Railroad over the Merrimac, at Manchester, N. 11 , was destroyed by fire on the 6th! Loss very heavy. Horace Greeley reached New York city from his Southern tour on the 7th. President Grant arrived at West Point on the 6th, and was received with a national salute. The Comptroller of the Currency has ordered the National Banks to furnish him with the names of their shareholders on the first Monday Of July next. The laying of track on the Utah Southern Railroad commenced on the 6th, Brigham Young driving the first spike, in the presence of a large concourse of citizens. Vice-President Colfax, in a letter to a friend in New York, attributes his recent illness to overwork. General Thomas J. Rodman, who has for several years past been in command of the United States Arsenal and other government works at Rock Island,died in that city on the 7th, aged about fifty years. The Gulf coast of Texas was visited by a terrific gale, accompanied by heavy rain, on the 3d, 4th and sth, resulting in great damage on land and water. A part of the city of. Galveston was inundated. Considerable damage is also reported else where in Southern Texas. Hon. Willard Warner, of Alabama, has formally declined the appointment of Governor of New Mexico. 8 A new tariff for western freight adopted by the leading railways at the East is fully 25 per cent, higher than the prices adopted in May. At Philadelphia, on the Bth, the Athletic Base-Ball Club, of that city, defeated the Chicago White Stockings—ls to 11. r In the New Hampshire House of Representatives on the 7th, Wm. H. Gore, Democrat and Labor Reform candidate, was elected Speaker by one majority over James Q. Adams, Republican. On the Bth, James R. Jackson, of Littleton, was chosen Clerk, and James H. Colboth, of Barnsted, Assistant. A Democratic Ser-geant-at Arms and Democratic Doorkeepers were also elected. In a letter dated Fort Sill, Comanche Reservation, May 25, addressed to the editor of a New York paper, General Sherman 1 says: “I hereby state, and mean all I say, that I never have been, and nevwill be, a candidate for President; that if nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, 1 should decline to serve.” Returns to the Treasury show that the total number of distilleries in opefjation in the countiy ou June Ist was 214, with a total capacity of 192,050 gallons. Of this number, Illinois has 28; Indiana, 19; Kentucky, 36; Ohio, 84, aud Pennsylvania, 56. President Grant has appointed Hiram A. Parker, to be Register of the Land Office at Beatrice, Neb.; Henry M. Lewis to be Collector,and Henry Harden Assessor of Internal Revenue for the Second and Third Districtsof Wisconsin, consolidated, and now known as the Second District The recent Wisconsin State Temperance Convention adopted a resolution that it was inexpedient to nominate a ticket. At the recent reunion of Illinois soldiers at Rock Island, the association elected the following officers for the ensuing year: President General Julius White, of Chicago; Vice-Presidents, General S. D. Atkins, of Freeport; General T. J. Henderson, of Princeton; Colonel R. 0. Wilson, of Sterling; Secretary, Major A. J. Pinkham, of Dixon; Executive Committee, Surgeon 8. C. Plummer, of Rock Island ; Major’Frank Clcndening, of Morrison; Captain R. A. Smith, of Sycamore; Major J. R. Hotaliug, of Rochelle; Major John A. Cheney, of Dixon; Major James M. Beardsley, of Bock Island, and General J. G. Sheets, of Oregon. At Fort Sill, Indian Territory, on the 28th ult., Gen. Sherman arrested Santanta, Satank, and Big Tree, Indian chiefs, who were among those who led the late raid into Texas. While the arrests were being made Lone Wolf made a demonstration that almost resulted in a general fight. One-Indian was killed, several shots weife fired, and the Indian camos stampeded A New Orleans dispatch of the Bth says the water in the city had fallen two inches in the previous twenty-four hours. If no further rains occurred the city would be relieved of the overflow iu a few days. In the International Typographical Union at Baltimore, oil the Bth, the Committee on Fast Type-setting made a report, giving to George A. Ahrensberg, of Philadelphia, Iho first’'prize; W. A. Edwards, of Norfolk, Va.,' the Second, and James 4. Butler, Rock, Ark., the

thinl. A resolution was adopted recommending subordinate unions to receive, as fRr as practicable, union girls in offices on an equality with men. At Baltimore, on the Bth, the Forest City Base-ball Club, of Rockford, defeated the Pastimes, of Yhe former City—l 7 to 5.