Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1871 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

v THE OLD IVOBLD. In the Spanish Cortes, on the l6th, after a discussion of a motion looking to a vigorous prosecution of tho war to prevent the loss of Cuba, and the consideration of a proposition made by General Sickles for tho sale of Cuba to the United States, it was resolved to keep the island at any cost. Tho Bavarian troops which served in the late war made a triumphal entry into Munich on the 15th, amid the most enthusiastic rejoicing. The city was splendidly decorated, and at night there was a grand illumination. The Austrian Government has formally ratified the naturalization treaty with the United States. The announcement that the Archbishop of Tours succeeds t,hc late Monseigneur Darboy as Archbishop of Paris is confirmed. An explosion at Rheims, on the 16th, caused a great fire, and many buil'dings in the business part of the city were burned. . An accidental explosion of the powder works at St. Maur, Vincennes, occurred on the 14th. The Cfficid. Journal of the 17th states that six persons were killed and thirty wounded. » The Chief of Police of Dublin died on the 16th from wounds received a few days before at the hands of a supposed Fenian. The murderer was under arrest. It is officially announced that the Asiatic cholera has broken out in several places in Poland. The ship Nahamon, from Bombay to Penang, has foundered in the Indian Ocean. Thirty lives were lost. A London dispatch of the 18th says the result of the recent census throughout Great Britain has just been officially announced. The entire population of England, Ireland, ‘Scotland, Wales, the Chan nel Islands, and the Isle of Man, including the army, navy, and merchant marine abroad, is: Males, 15,549,271; females, 16,267,837; total, 31,817,108. The preponderance of females over males is 718,566. The magazine of the steamer Eunomia exploded, on the 3d, in the Grecian Archipelago. Forty of her crew were killed, nearly all the rest more or less injured, while the vessel was almost entirely destroyed. The Pope, in a recent address to the Sacred College at Rome, says f “We are, my very dear brothers, in the hands of Divine Providence. We have nothing to expect from human aid, for man has abandoned us. Why should we dissemble? It Is better I should tell you. Kings and governments, forgetting their promises, leave us to our fate. They have addressed us la fine phrases. They sent us the warmest congratulations on the day of onr jubilee, liut they are far from taking fa step in support of their messages. Wo can hope for no help from any quarter. King Victor Emanuel will be here in a few days, and will he attended by the Ministers of Catholic States. have do up all that was tn our power, bnt our efforts hare failed. All is lost. You will tell me, perhaps, that we have still hope in France; but France can do nothing. She is going through a frightful crises, which may be succeeded by others yet more dreadful. 1 repeat it. all is lost, aud only a iiiracle can save us. Turn, then, to the Almighty, and seek the interposition from Him. ” Iu England, on the 18th, on the North Midland Railway, the. Sheffield express train, going sputh, ran into a freight train near Chesterfield Station. Two passengers were killed outright aud about thirty in jured, some of whom would die. A letter from London says that Thurlow AVeea was not as well on July 8 as when he left New York. He expressed his intention of returning in a feW days, if his health did not improve. A letter receritly received in New York from Paris says 30,000 persons, including 6,000 women aud children were killed in suppressing the Commune. Ninety thousand prisoners had been captured and the police were hunting for 50,000 more. News is received from London to the effet that “the future Emperor and Empress qf Germany were snubbed by Queen Victoria cfn the occasion of their recent visit to England. Her Majesty refused to take them in at any of her palaces, and they were obliged to lodge with a common Ambassador Extraordinary.” It was officially reported at Berlin on the 20th that 409,600,000, francs of indemnity were received from France on July 15, of which 12,000,000 were in silver; 52,500,000 had arrived since July 15.

THE NEW WORLD. Gold closed in New York on the 20th at 112J4. The arsenal at Rio Janeiro has been totally destroyed by tire. The loss to the Brazilian Government exceeds £300,000. A letter received. at Washington on the 14th, from Treasurer Spinner, reports his health as gradually hut certainly improving. A New York dispatch of the 14th says the daily papers still differed widely in their lists of casualties in the late riot. They estimate the killed at from 40 .to 65, and the wounded at from 02 to 148. it 1 iB believed the actual casualties much exceed these figures, though the full extent of the loss will never beknown. The prisoners captured during the riot were all brought up before J udge Hogan, at the Tombs, yesterday, and though they all swore to their innocence, they wore held for exam, ination.” Chas. H, Pettit, aged 22, was instantly; killed while looking at the procession. He was engaged to Miss Ida Johnson, and wa9 to lihve been married in two weeks. She has become a raving maniac. Alderman A. A. Fenald has been elected Mayor of Portsmouth, N. H., to fill the vacancy caused by the insanity of Mayor Adams. Lieutenant Graijt, who graduated at West Point, last month, arrived in Washington,on the 14th. He has leave ol absence until November, a?d Will spend his time on the Union Pacific Railroad, turning his attention to practical engineering. A Washington dispatch of the 14th says: “It can now be positively stated, on official authority, that the new loan has not been withdrawn from the market.”

A terrible wind, rain, and thunder storm struck St. Joseph, Mo., on tho night of the 13th, and damaged buildings to tho amount of 150,000. The damage to orchards, [•vineyards and corn fields in the path of the tornado was incalculable. Zicgenmeyer, recently on trial in Chicago for the murder in November last of M. W. Gumblcton, has been found guilty, and the jury fixed the sentence at imprisonment for life. A motion was made for a new trial. All wheels, books, etc., of lotteries which draw in Covington, Ky., were seized on the 14th by the Covington authorities. It is claimed that the charters have expired by limitation, and that under the present laws pf Kentucky they are illegal. The parties who control the drawings were arrested. The New Hampshire Legislatnre adoumed sine die on the 15th. In a letter published in a Boston paper of the 16th Gen. B. F. Butler says, in view of the present political situation of parties in Massachusetts, aud the withdrawal of Governor Claflin, he proposes to become a candidate for the office of Governor. The number of emigrants arriving at Castle Garden for the week "ending July 15 was 4,236, making a total of 120,447 landed this year. The total number for the corresponding time last year was 138,198. A New York ( dispatch of the 16th says : “ Never during the past twenty years has New York been more free from disorder of all kinds than during the last two days. The terrible blast of Wednesday has taught the mob a lesson that does not seem likely to be soon forgotten.” The funeral of Sergeant Wyatt and privale Page, of the Ninth regiment, killed in the riot, took place oh the 16th. The remains were followed to the grave by the Ninth, Twelfth, Seventy-first, and representatives from other regiments, and some 8,000 citizens stood in the streets in a drenching rainstorm to witness the procession. No one was allowed in the church save the militia, police and relatives of the families of the deceased. The scene was impressive. No disturbance whatever on the route of the procession. During a fire in New York city on the 17th, a barrel of benzine exploded, severely burning thirteen men. A Washington dispatch of the 15th says: “ The President has directed the AttorneyGeneral, on the representation of the Sub-Ku-Klux Committee, to rigidly enforce the bill passed for the suppression of outrages in the South, especially iu North Carolina. Additional assistant attorneys will bo appointed, and the law strictly enforced everywhere in the South. Another telegram says: “ Attorney-General Akerman finds that he Cannot depend upon his District Attorneys at the South to prosecute Kn-Klux cases as.he wants them prosecuted, and he has therefore appointed Assistant District Attorneys in North Carolina, and will follow them up by appointments in other States. ” The umpire of the Mexican Claims Commission has decided that the Mexican Government is responsible for the property of American citteens destroyed during the French invasion. He also decided that American citizens doing business in Mexico are entitled to indemnity, not being Mexican citizens. The Commissioners have decided that the Miramon and Sulooga Governments in Mexico, during 1858 and 1859, were not lawful governments, and also that the American Government is not responsible for depredations committed by Confederate troops on Mexican citizens. The work of deepening the Illinois & Michigan Canal has been completed, and the dams and other obstructions were removed on the 15th, and the wajir from Lake Michigan commenced flowing through the channel of the Chicago River into the Canal, and thence into the Illinois River. Tiffs, it is thought, will serve to purify the river at Chicago, and thus favorably affect the health and comfort of residents there. Thomas Lincoln (better known by the name of “ Tad,” which his father gave him when a child), the youngest son of ex-President Lincoln, died in Chicago, on the morning of the 15. th, after several weeks’ illness. He was over eighteen years of age. His remains were taken to Springfield, and placed in the tomb beside those of his father. Up to the 15th seventy games of baseball had been played for the championship of the United States. Of them the Chicago Club have played 15, winning 11; tho Athletics 14, winning 9; the Boston 18, winning 10;'the Mutuals 10, winning 9; the Haymakers 14, winhing 7; the Olympics 20, winning 11; the Kekiongas 13, winning 4; the Cleveland 15, winning 5; the Rockford 15, winning 4. Ills reported that Santanta and Big Tree, Kiowa Chiefs, who were captured at Lill when General Sherman was ttljjfo, and sent to Austin, Tex.; attempted to escape from prison, and actually released themselves from their shackles by gnawing the flesh from their hands and feet, but were discovered aud shot dead. The people of the Texas border were very uneasy lest there should be a general outbreak of the reservo Indians on the settlements, to take vengeance lor the death of tho Chiefs. General Parker has resigned the position of Commissioner of Indian and his resignation has been accepted by the President. He resigns because of the authority exercised by tho Indian Commissioners over all affairs of the office, thus “ divesting'the Indian Bureau ot its original importance, duties and other responsibilities.” The grand jury has foiled indictments against Hiram G. Ramsdbll and Z. While, of the New York Tribune, and Joseph A-

Kirby, of tho Western Union Telegraph office, charged with willfully and unlawfully refusing to testify on certain points before a special committee of tho Scnato of the United States, concerning the premature publication of the treaty of Washington. A Washington telegram of the 17th says: “ The subscriptions to the new loan to date amount to $67,054,000. The subscriptions to-day reached $21,500. The bonds already issued on the above subscriptions amount to s6l, 605,500.” The President has appointed Jno. 8. Armstrong, agent for the Indians of New Mexico; Henry A. Eastman, Registrar of the LaDd Office at Prescott, Arizona; H. Latham, of Arizona, Commissioner to the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia. A New York dispatch of the 18th gives the following as the nationality of the killed and wounded in the recent riot in that city: Ireland, 60; unknown, 40; United States, 11; England, 7,- Germany, 6; Africa, 2; Australia, 1; Canada, 1. Total, 134. Tho lotal number of deaths was 48. J. W. Deloenthal has been appointed Postmaster at Warrenton, Mo. Patrick Bums, who was sentenced to be hanged at St. Louis, Mo., for murder, had his sentence commuted to ten years in the penilentiary. He was brought before the St Louis Criminal Court on the 15th, and declined to accept the commutation, but preferred to be hanged. Gov. Warmouth, of Louisiana, arrived at New Orleans on the 18th, and at once took charge of the Executive office. The Grahd jury at Baltimore have found indictments against Mrs. Elizabeth G. Wharton, widow of Major H. W. Wharton, on the charge of having caused the death of General Ketchum, recently, by mixing poison in drink while he was visiting her residence, and also of having, in a similar manner, attempted to poison Mr. Van Ness, a friend of her family, Suspicions are said to exist that Mrs. Wharton also caused the death of her husband, her husband’s brother and his daughter, and her own son, all of whom were taken ill and died suddenly in her house within three years. Her son, had his life insured in her favor for $20,000. The motive of her murder of General Ketchum is supposed to have been to get rid of paying $2,600 she owed him. In the Connecticut House, on the 19th, the resolution appropriating $500,000 for a new State House in New Haven was defeated by a vote of 83 to 119. The survivors of the Massachusetts regiment which served in the Mexican war have formed an organization to be known as “The Association of Massachusetts Volunteers in Mexico.” The number of beer stamps of different denominations issued during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1871, was 22,703,808, representing $7,485,462, being an increase over the previous year of 2,297,633 stamps, aud $729,562. On Lake Michigan, on the night of the 18th, the propeller J. Barber was burned to the water’s edge while on her way from Benton Harbor to Chicago with a cargo of fruit There were twenty persons on board, but all were saved except two members of the crew. A Joliet, 111., dispatch of the 19th says .- “The water from the Chicago River is killing all the fish of our river. Their dead bodies are to be seen floating down stream in great numbers.” Much excitement has been caused at Olney, Richland County, 111., by the recent dijeovery of the fact that the title to the laud on which the town stands is defective through some flaw in the enactment of Congress, the quarter section on which the city is located not being entered on the books of the General Land Office. This discovery was made by a land speculator named Wilson, who has secured a patent on the land, and now proposes to pre-empt or compel settlements from the

occupants. At the Alabama State Convention of Teachers and School Superintendents, recently held at Montgomery, it was resolved by a unanimous vote “ that the education of the colored race was a duty and high privilege o,f the white race, and that the convention concur in any measure calculated to accomplish such a result,” The Maryland Democratic State Convention met at Baltimore on the 19th, and made the following nominations: For Governor, Wm. Pinkney Whyte, of Baltimore; for Attorney-General, A. K. Sylvester, of Washington County; for Comptroller, Levin Woodford, of Somerset County, present incumbent. Tennife C. Claflin has publicly announced herself as a candidite for Congress in the Eighth District of New York city. Distinct shocks of enrthquako were felt in different sections of Maine, New Hamp shire and Massachusetts on the morning of the 20th. At Harrisburg, Pa, a very bold robbery has come to light, by which, it is alleged, a traveler at the depot in that city was robbed of a satchel containing $150,000. He had carelessly left the bag under the scat of the car while he went to get some refreshments. No trace of tho robber. Tho engine Vulcan, on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, blew up at Coalport, Pa., on the 20th. The engineer, fireman, and four trainmen were killed. Four bodies, in a terribly mangled condition, were found, but could not be recognized. The engineer and fireman were not fount}. They must have landed in the LeMgk River and been swept away. A Washington dispatch of the 20th says the Secretary of the Treasury had received a letter from Judge Richardson, who speaks rather encouragingly of the prospects of negotiating tht new loan in England although there was nothing specific on that point. V

The courts of the District of Columbia have decided that no distinction can be made on account of color in any public place. The question eamo up on the refusal or a restaurant keeper to give refreshments to one of the colored offleers of the Police Court. A fine was paid of SSO, an appeal from the court below dismissed, and the decision of the lower court was sustained. The Nebraska Constitutional Convention has fixed the salary of the Governor at #4,000, Secretary of State and Auditor at #2,000, Treasurer at #2,500, and the At-torney-General at #2,500. A few nights ago a largo body of disguised men went to the Alabama & Chattanooga Kailroad yard, at Chattanooga, Tonn., and captured and locked up the watchman in the round house, then disabled all the engines in the house, by removing parts of the machinery, which could be only replaced from shops in the East. No trains left the qity on that road the next day. A Louisville, Ivy., dispatch of the 20th says that, on the night of the 15th, “forty men attacked the house of Reuben and Martha Mason, colored, six miles from Shelbyville. Reuben escaped, but the men entered and whipped Martha severely, and left an enter /for both to leave the neighborhood. (Jn Tuesday night several men went to the same house and endeavored to set it on fire, but Reuben shot at them and drove them ofi. Jno. Myers, Cave Washburne, and Wm. Keplinger were arrested for the offense, examined before a magistrate and discharged. Today they were brought before United Slates Commissioner Beatty, of this city, and held to ball in #SOO each to answer to the charge before the Federal Courts.”