Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1871 — THE NEW WORLD. [ARTICLE]

THE NEW WORLD.

Gold closed in New York on the sth at 113%. The Republican State Convention of Maine, at Portland, on the 29th ult., renominated Sydney Perham for Governor, by acclamation. The New Hampshire Legislature, on the 29th ult., chose the following State officers: Railroad Commissioner, David Gilchrist, Democrat and Labor Reformer; Secretory of State, John 11. Lopdale, Democrat and Labor Reformer; State Treasurer, L. W. Cogswell.

The followjgg appointments were made by the President on the 29th: Wm. 11. Haines, Commissioner of Customs,- Lewis H. Douglass, Member of the Legislative Council of the District of Columbia; Eldredge W. Little, of New Mexico; Wilson 11. Griffith and Henry Probosco, of Ohio, Commissioners under the act to provide for the centennial celebration of independence at Philadelphia; ex-Unitcd States Senator Willard Warner, Collector of Customs at Mobile, Ala., in place of Dr. Miller, of Washington, D. C. The Republican Territorial Convention, of'Montana, has nominated William H. Claggctt, of Deer Lodge, for Delegate to Congress. • Tho third trial of tx-Mayor Gaboon, of Richmond, Ya., for complicity in forgery, was Concluded on the 29th ult., the jury finding him guilty, with recommendation* to Executive clemency. He was sentenced to two years in tho Penitentiary.

The Republican State Central Committee of Kentucky has nominated Rev. Wm, M. Pratt, a Baptist minister, to fill the vaoancy on tho ticket for Superintendent of Public Instruction.

The difficulty between Commissioner Pleasanton and Secretary Boutwell, which had grown out of au award by thc.former of a paper contract without the approval of the latter, remained unadjusted on the 30th ult. Iu an»interview between these gentlemen on that day, the Secretary stated that the country held him responsible for all the moneys disbursed by tho Treasury Department; therefore, every contract for the payment of money should be made under his direction and with his approval, and decisions also involving the credit and character of the department should be under his supervision. Commissioner rieasantou spoke of his own duties, and responsibilities under the law, and the powers pertaining to his office, denying the right of the Secretary to hear appeals from his decisions, as, under the law, the remedy lay the courts. Prof. Watts, of Carlisle, Penn., has accepted the appointment of Commissioner of Agriculture.. The customs receipts for the fiscal year ending June 30 were $204,457,991. The grand total of receipts by the Internal Revenue Bureau, for the same time was $144,278,063. The President has appointed C. C. Ewell, Postmaster at Kent, 0., vice Mr. Sawyer, resigned. Newton Booth is the candidate for Governor on the Republican State ticket of California; Romaulda Pcshacco for Lieu-tenant-Governor ; L. Drury Malone for Secretary of State, and A. C. Niles and A. L. Rhodes for Justices of the Supreme Court. James W. Allison has been appointed Internal Revenue Gauger for the Second District of Kentucky. July 1, being Dominion day, was kept as a close holiday throughout Canada. The Polaris sailed from New York on the evening of the 29th ult. for the North Pole. The pardon of C. C. Bowen, convicted of bigamy, was signed by the President on the Ist The public debt statement July Ist Is as follows: Debt bearing coin interest $1,888,133,750 Interest 44,278,818 Debt bearing currency interest: Prtndpal 46,583,000 Interest 429,853 Matured debt 1,948,902 Interest 817,331 Debt bearing no interest 416,5# ,680 Unclaimed interest 11,262 Total debt principal $2,353,211,832 Interest 45,036,766 Total $2,398,218,093 Cash in Treisury 93,683,950 Currency in Treasury 9,‘33,363 Total $106,217,813 Decrease in debt during past month. ' $7,103,249 Decrease since March 1, 1869 238,412.425 Bonds Issued to the Paciflc Railroad companies, interest payable in lawful money: '■ Principal $64,018,882 Interest accrued, not yet paid 1,938,564 Interest patd by the United States 10,753,910 Interest repaid by the transportation of mails $. 2,973,861 Balance lutercst paid by the United States $7,780,049

The eight negroes, who threw the express safe off’the train near Meridian, Miss., and then robbed it, have been arrested, and all the money, $12,000, recovered. The beer question • was decided at Boston on the Ist, by a majority of 5,916 in favor of beer-selling. There was a light vote, and very little interest was manifested. Tne result was: Yeas, 7,411; nays, 1,495. * Three hundred Mormons, just from Europe, left New York city for Salt Lake on the 30th ult., in charge of Brigham Young’s son. Four hundred more were at Quarantine. Ex-Senator Grimes, of lowa, who has recently returned from Europe, will spend the summer with his family, in New England. His health is nearly restored. A large bust of Washington Irving was unveiled in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, on the Ist, in the presence of 15,000 persons. •

A woman named Mrs. Lydia Sherman has been arrested at New Brunswick, N. J., charged with having poisoned at different times three husbands and two stepchildren. The Democrats of New Mexico have nominated Joseph M. Gallagos for Delegate to Congress by acclamation. The Postmaster-General has appointed Elias Smith, of Galveston, as Special. Agent of tho Post Office Department for the State of Texas on mail depredations. recently received at the Executive Mansion, in Washington, from the United States District Attorney at Salem, N. C., states that the grand jury of tlmt county had found bills of indictment against twenty-one persons engaged in Klu-Klux outrages on Mr. Justice,-member of the Legislature, aud eighteen indictments against persons engaged in outrages on Mr. Biggstoff. He writes that the persons indicted were all in jail awaiting trial.

An Augusta, Ga., dispatch of the 3d says that o£ tho Ist twenty-five armed negroes went on the plantation of August Reed, about twenty-five miles below Augusta, on the Savannah River, and fired a volley into Reed’s residence, killing Thomas A. Lowe, and seriously wounding Reed and his wife and mother. One of the parties was arrested, and states that the affair grew out of an attempt by Reed and Lowe to chastise a negroTor stealing from the premises of the former. Hon. Mr. .Tratch has been appointed Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia. At Newark, N. J., on the morning of the 2<Jr Mr. Oliver S. Halstead, extensively known under the name of “Pet" Halstead, was shot and killed by George Botts, his rival in the affections of a woman in whose room the murder was committedThe father of the murdered man. Hon. 0.

8. Halstead, was formerly Chancellor of the State of New Jersey. His grief on hearing of tho murder of his son was very great. At Troy, N. Y., on July 4th, James K. Allen made an ascension in a small balloon. He landed at Putnam, distant 100 miles, in two hours after his ascent. President Grant issued a proclamation on the 4th of the Treaty of Washington, closing as follows: " Now, therefore, be it known that I, Ulysses 8. Grant, President of the United States of America, have causod said treaty to be made public, to the end that the same aud every clause and article thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by tho Uuiled States and the citizens thereof.” Secretary Belknap left Washington on the night of the 4th for the West, to be absent several weeks. A Washington special to the New York Post of the sth says: “It is generally thought here that the President will permit Commissioner Pleasanton to resign rather than lose Secretary Boutwell from his Cabinet; and those who best understand the true situation of affairs predict that the President’s return will be followed by the immediate retirement of Pleasanton.” Martin Mera, aged forty-four years, a resident of Iroquois County, 111., was taken from the jail at Watseka, on the night of the sth, and hung on a tree, just west of Sugar Creek, by a mob of 250 meD, with men, women and children following—amounting, in the aggregate, to 1,003 persons. Mera was charged with burning lik sou, a lass of eleven years, on the stove, till the skin came off his feet and body, and then whipping him to death and burying him in his garden. Professor Steiner made a balloon ascension from Milwaukee at 4 p. m. on the 4th, and landed at Kalamazoo, Mich., at 10 p. m. “We are heartily glad,” says the Dayton, 0., Herald, of the 30th ult., “to record the fact that Mrs. Vallandigham is now in a hopeful way of recovery. She is able to sit up during a portion of the day.” The testimony in the Oxford, Miss., Ku Klux trial was closed on the 3d, and the argument commenced on the 4th. By an accident to a passenger train on the Nashville & Northwestern Railroad, on the evening of the 3d, at Harpeth River, eighteen miles from Nashville, Tcnn., about fifteen persons were killed, and over twenty wounded. After the locomotive and baggage car had crossed the bridge over the riverj the bridge gave way, aud the remainder of the train fell with It into the stream. The Postmaster General has appointed Abraham Ackerman Postmaster at Warrenton, Mo., vice H. Middlekamp, removed, and Jonathan S. Holmes, Postmaster at Grand Ledge, Mich., rice James A. Wickham, resigned. - , . A Waslifhgtott telegram of the 6th says the subscriptions to the now 5 per cent, loan had entirely ceased; and, in consequence, Secretary Boutwell had givenjnstructions to the Continental Bank Note Company to discontinue further printing of all bonds of that character. Senator Pinchback, colored, haainsti tuted suit at New Orleans for $25,000 against the Jackson Railroad for refusal to furnish him passage in a sleeping-car on account of his color. A torrible storm of wind and rain passed over Mounilaville, W. Va., on the evening of the sth. Houses were unroofed, fences blown down, and great quantities of grain destroyed. During a severe storm at Lone Tree, Nebraska, on the evening of the sili, a house with four people inside was struck by lightning, shattered to pieces and tho inmates killed. On the Fremont & Blair Railroad one of the cars was lifted from the track by the wind and landed twenty feet from the rail. A young son, aged 2 years, of John McCleary, of West Point was killed. A mail agent, name unknown, was fatally hurt. Other passengers to the number of fifteen or twenty were more or less injured—none fatally.