Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1871 — THE NEW WORLD. [ARTICLE]

THE NEW WORLD.

Gold closed in New York on the 15th at 112*. The examination of the graduating class of cadets at West Point concluded at noon on the Oth. All were successful in passing the ordeal. The Chicago White Stockings defeated the Philadelphia Olympics in a game of base-ball played in the latter city on the Oth. Score, 17 to 8. At Lincoln, Neb., on the Bth, the Impeachment Court, in the case of ex-Audi-tor Gillespie, adjourned to the second Tuesday in January next, and the Legislature adjourned to the same day. The Seventeen years locusts have appeared in vast numbers in the woods and groves surrounding Springfield, 111. The Government Board of Steamboat Inspectors, after a careful investigation of the circumstances of the disaster to the steamboat, W. R. Arthur, on the Mississippi River, last fall, by which 65 lives were lost, have reported that the engineers of the boat were to blame. Two murderers, Jno. Roseborough and Wm. Harrison, both negroes, were hung at Marion; Ark., on the 9th. Both struggled violently, and had to be carried to the scaffold. Seven members of the New Haven Typographical Union were arrested on the 10th for conspiring against the office of the Morning Journal and Courier, under a statute law of the State. The parties arrested have obtained bonds. Both parties are determined to carry the matter to the highest courts. At Philadelphia on the 10th the Chicago White Stockings defeated the experts, of the former city—24 to 2. An official statement recently published shows the total funded debt of the city of New York, on May 1, to have been $49,551,804; the floating debt, $10,915,500, and the county funded debt, $21,591,150. The sinking fund now amounts to $17,784,003. A sweeping tornado passed through the towns of Paxton, Holden jmd West Boyleston, Mass, on the 11th, demolishing every building in its. track, and tearing up trees, by the roots. Three persons were injured, one seriously. The New Hampshire Legislature, in joint convention on the 10th, elected James A. Weston, Democrat, Governor of the State, by a vote of 167 to 159 for James Pile, Republican. A Washington dispatch of the 10th says: “ A comparative statement of the receipts from the several general sources of revenue, taxable under the laws for the first ten months of the fiscal year ending June 30,1871, shows that for 1870 the amount collected was $136,186,619, and for 1871, $117,685,481.” L. M. Terrill, of Indiana, has been appointed Special Agent-at-Large of the Post Office Department on mail depredations, and assigned to duty for the State of Texas. A public reception was given in New York city, on the evening of the 12th, to Horace Greeley, by the Union Republican General Committee of that city, of which he is Chairman. The unveiling of the statue to Professor Morse in New York Central Park took place on the 10th. All the approaches to the vicinity of the statue were crowded, and it is estimated that at least 50,000 persons were within twenty rods of the speaker’s stand. Governor Hoffman presided. A! recent Washington dispatch says : “ The President has fully decided to make a trip to the Pacific coast about- the middle of August, in company with Senator Nye. He will visit Salt Lake City, Nevada, California, and probably go to Portland, Oregon, in a revenue cutter.” j The revised and approved census of the State of Ohio is published. Total population in 1870, 2,665,002, of whom 2,291752 are native-born Americans, 373,250 foreigners, and 63,267 colored. Increase in ten years, 321,262. A terrible wind, rain and hail storm swept over North Bend, Neb., on the night of the Oth. Several houses were blown down and broken in pieces. Several persons were badly injured by the hail and pieces of timber. A game of ba3e-ball at Baltimore on the 12th, between the Chicago White Stockings and the Pastimes, of Baltimore, resulted in the defeat of the latter club—3B to 17. The following is the standing of West Point cadets of the first class as arranged according to merit, officially announced on the 13th: 1, Mason; 2, Steever; 3, Ayres; 4, Russell; 5, Alderson ;6, Goddard; 7, Edmunds ;8, Stewart; 9, Morrison; 10, Davis; 11, Woodruff, C. A.; 12, Wyatt; 13, Mott; 14, Bacon; 15, Woodruff, T. M.; 16, Walker, L. H.j 17, Poillou; 18, Kingsbury; 10, Nave; 20, Schwalter; 21, McKinney ; 22, Allison; 23, Hickey; 24, Ribbet; 25, Chase; 26, White; 27, Knox; 28, Mansfield; 29, Formanec; 30, Robinson ; 31, Wheeler; 32, Bush; 33, Ward; 84, Webster, J. M. C. A.; 35, Guard; 36. Munaford; 87, Grant; 38, Townsend; 39, Hoag; 40, Roe; 41. Pardee. Shoretelle was not examinod, being sick in hospital. Davenport was absent, and not examined. A fire at Potsdam Junction, N. Y., on the 11th, destroyed the entire business part of the village, which comprised thirteen stores, live mechanics’ shops, one bakery,- one hotel, and four dwelling houses. Several barns were also burned. The origin of the fire was unknown. Losses about $70,000; insurance, $58,000. Fred Douglas has resigned as a member,, of the Council of the Legislature of the Territory of Columbia. At Washington, on the 13th, C. C. Bowen, recently convicted of bigamy, was sentenced to pay a fine of $250 and be imprisoned two years in the Penitentiary. The Washington Olympics and the Chicago White Stocking* played a game of

base-ball in Washington on the 18th, the former club winning in a score of 18 to 8. The Cincinnati Enquirer estimates that there are 15,000 colored voters in Ohio. The amendment to the Constitution of Connecticut, submitting to the people the question whether there shall be one capital or two, and allowing of a choice between Hartford and New Haven, was defeated in the House on the 14th, by 145 to 70. Governor Weston, of New Hampshire, was inaugurated on the 14th. In the House, on that day, tho names of twentyfive Republican members and the names of eleven Democratic members were presented whose seats would be contested. A singular and fatal horse disease has recently made its appearance in New York city. A dispatch of the 14th says: “It battles the skill of the veterinary surgeons. The disease is very rapid in its results, generally producing death in twenty-four hours. Yesterday the Third Avenue Railroad lost thirty horses, the Second Avenue road twenty, and other lines proportionately large numbers.' The superintendent of the Broadway and Seventh Avenue line estimates the deaths so far at 200 animals." The Polaris, Captain Hall’s vessel for his Arctic voyage, arrived at New York from Washington on the 14th. At Boston, on the 14th, the Forest City Base-Ball Club, of Cleveland, defeated the Bostons—B to 7. In New York, the Mutuals defeated the Rockford Forest Citys 12tJT4. , 1 ' I. ‘ .■' ■■■ ■ The Postmaster General has appointed Rev. George D. Chenowith Superintendent and Disbursing Clerk of the Post Office Department, vice Frank A. McCartney. The Commissioner of Pensions has restored Dr. Stillman, homoeopathic physician, to his former position as examining surgeon. j A Washington dispatch of the 14th says Captain Hall’s instructions for his polar voyage contemplate an absence of two years and a half, and if results warrant, even longer. Among the means for securing intelligence of his movements, he is instructed to throw overboard, at suitable intervals and occasions, bottles containing dispatches for the Government, with instructions in different languages to those finding them to forward the contents without delay. When the vessel is left, skeleton stone monuments are to be erected on the course traveled, to mark the progress of the party. Recent advices from Newfoundland in- . dicate that that colony of fishermen favor, the ratification of the Treaty of Washington. . U. Both houses of the Connecticut Legislature have re elected Judges James Phelps and Dwight W.-Pardee as Judges of, the Superior Court for eight years from next July. The Pennsylvania Grand Lodge of Good Templars, recently in session at Eric, Pa., elected tho following officers for the ensuing year: G. W. C. T., 8. B. Chase; G. W. V. T., W. H. Fries; G. W. V. C., Carrie R. Williams; G. W. Sec., L. Ellen Wright; G. W. T., 8. S. King; G. M., C. C. Fawcett There was no abatement in the horse disease in New York city on the 15th. The malady had extended to private stables. At Philadelphia, on the 15th, the Rockford Forest City Base-Ball Club defeated the Athletics, of the former city—lo to 7. The President has appointed Clinton Spencer Postmaster at Ypsilanti, Michi gan; Alfred Van Dine, Postmaster at Sandusky, Ohio. In the finding of the general court martial in the case of the colored cadet, Smith, at West Point, who was dismissed from the academy, the Secretary of War, in an order recently issued, says: “ The proceedings of the findings and sentence are approved, but in view of all circumstances surrounding the case, and believing that the end of public justice would be better subserved and the policy of the government, of which the presence of this cadet in the Military Academy is a signal illustration, be better maintained by a commutation of the sentence than by its rigid enforcement, the President is pleased to mitigate it by substituting for dismissal from the service of the United States a reduction of his academic standing one year.” A* Washington dispatch of the 15th says: 11 The Agricultural Department estimates the reduction of cotton acreage as compared with last year at nearly 15 per cent, equivalent to 1,333,333 acres, leaving the present average from 7,500,000 to 8,000,000. No estimate is made, but it Is assumed that the crop cannot exceed 3,500,000, and may fall to 8,000,000, under the combination of unfavorable circumstances. The condition of the growing plant is below an average in nearly every Btate.” Chief-Justice Chase was in Cincinnati on the 15th. >He is said to have been benefited by travel. The Wisconsin Democratic State Convention has been called to meet at Madison on the 23d of August. The recent lowa Democratic State Committee made the following nominations: For Governor, J. C. Knapp, of Van BuretyCounty; Lieutenant-Governor, M, M. Ham, of the Dubuque Herald; Superintendent of Public Instruction, E. M. Munn,of Lee; Supreme Judge, John F, Duncomb, of Webster. John P. Irish was re-elected Chairman of the State Central Committee. A number of persons were recently fatally poisoned, in Mississippi, by eating mulberries in which locusta*had deposited eggs. , Commodore Joseph Tatnall died at Savannah, Ga., on the 14th, aged 75. A New Orleans thief returned some abstracted clothing that proved too small, and wrote to the owner that he would wait for him to grow. |