Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1871 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

THE OLD WORLD. The new Spanish Ministry has resolved to put down the insurrection in Cuba, regardless of all sacrifices of life. A Paris dispatch of the 29th ult. says: “ Americans visiting Europe must bring passports, especially naturalized citizens, as the latter cannot get them here without showing the proper papers.” The death, at London, of John Slidell, formerly Confederate Minister to France, is announced. A London telegram of the 30th ult. says Russell Guemey, having been appointed Commissioner of the British Government for the settlement of the Alabama claims under the Treaty of Washington, would shortly sail for America. The Halifax correspondent of the Toronto Telegraph says: “ The fishery clause in the Washington treaty has become quite popular in the Provinces. Fishermen and merchants are quite satisfied with it. No opposition to the treaty can prove popular here.” * ~ j The result of the first and supplementary elections for members of the Municipal Council of Paris has been declared. The Council is composed of 88 Conservatives, 7 moderate Republicans, 27 Republicans, and 10 ultras. The British Parliament, on the 31st ult., voted an allowance of £15,000 per annum to Prince Arthur. At the same time a vote of censure of the Queen’s message abolishing the purchase system in the army, as an unworthy Ministerial resort, was voted down in the House of Lords by a majority of eighty. A meeting was held in London on the evening of the 31st ult. to protest against the granting of an annuity to Prince Arthur. Five thousand people were present. Some fighting occurred, and arrests were made, and the meeting adjourned in disorder, the crowds being dispersed by tbepoHoe. The Prince of Wales and party arrived in Dublin on the evening of the 31st ult., and had a popular reception. A London telegram of the 31st ult. says .- “The Persian Minister denies explicitly the reports which have been received recently of the ravages committed by the famine, plague and cholera in Persia. He says there is undoubtedly a lamentable scarcity of food among the poor classes, and that they are fed at the expense of the government in the cemeteries, because there is in them alone sufficient room to accommodate the crowds of people who appeal to the government for subsistence. Order is in the cemeteries by the police, and from' tlMs Jact has arisen the story that force has to be employed for the prevention of the disinterment of the dead for*'use as food. The Minister expresses the opinion that all the horrible stories emanating from his country are the work of commercial agents.” Late dispatches bring intelligence of the spread of the cholera in Russia, .where it has been raging for the past two years. Already it has begun its westward march, has invaded Germany, and is now running a rapid course in the Baltic ports. A sanitary cordon has been drawn along the borders of Prussia, but still the pestilence penetrates it, and threatens to spread into Poland, Hungary and Prussia, and even England and France are alarmed. A dispatch dated Rome, July 31, says: “ There is great excitement here- over the vote in the French Assembly on the position of the Pope:" The journals regard war with France as probable, and accuse the Ministry of betraying the country. The Qaaette says the government should not have gone to Rome, but having gone, must stay,'though dark clouds should envelope the political horizon.” The appointment of Mr. T. Wade as successor to Sir Rutherford Alcock, ss British Minister to China, Is announced. A London special of the 2d says: “Papers have been seized at Marseilles relating to the purpose of the tionalisls to firo the docks, bum the shipping, and to take the city during the confusion which was expected in consequence of the conflagrations. Nancy and Bourges were to be fired and taken on the same plan.” Quertier, the French Minister of Finance, on the 2d completed the payment of another installment of 500,000,000 f. of the German indemnity. The German Army of Occupation had been reduced to 150,000. It is now announced that trains for the transportation of passengers and freight will commence to run through Mont Cenis Tunnel on September 15, when there will be a formal inauguration of the road. The Paris Offleiel Journal of the 3d announces the appointment of Count de Resmusat as Minister ot Foreign Affaire in place of Jules Favre, resigned. A London dispatch of the 3d says the British Charge d’ Affaires at Teheran had telegraphed to the Foreign Office that the famine in Persia was over, but provisions were Belling at exorbitant prices.

THE NEW WORLD. Gold closed In New York on Uie 8d •t 1121*. ’ v The Massachusetts Republican State C< nvention has been called to meet at Worcester, September 27. The Connecticut Legislature adjourned tine die on the 28th. The New Jersey Republican State Committee has called a State Convention to nominate a Republican candidate for Governor, to be held at Trenton, on Thursday, September 7. The number of adhesive stamps issued by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1871, wa5411,663,888, representing a value 0f'|15,019,074.

When called up to receive the sentence of the court, in Chicago, on theJ2Bth, Ziogcnmeyer declared himself to be entirely innocent of the murder of Gumbleton. When passing the sentence of imprisonment for life, Judge Booth expressed himself as folly concurring in the Justice of the verdict rendered. A meeting of delegates from agricultural societies, embracing every section of the United States, will take place at Nashville, Tenn., on the 8d of next October, the object being the organization of an agricultural congress. General J. T. Boyle died [suddenly of apoplexy at fhis residence] in Louisville, Ky., on the 28th., He was fifty-three years of age, was a Brigadier General in the Federal army during the war, and at one time Military Governor of Kentucky. At New York, on the 30th ult., the Staten Island ferry-boat Westfield, while in the slip at Whitehall, and crowded with passengers, exploded her boiler. The front of the boiler was suddenly blown out. The forward part of the boat, upper cabin and all, was instantly shivered and split into a thousand pieces. As an eyewitness expressed it, the forward part of the boat was lifted fifty feet in the air, the smoke-stack fell, and then everything was buried in the hol<J. Passengers, chairs, stools, horses, benches, and life-preservers dropped into the hold, fronting the huge boiler, which poured out a deadly volume of steam. The most reliable returns up to the morning of the 31st give the toted of killed at 50, and the wounded at 120. The Secretary of the Treasury has notified the Assistant Treasurer at New York to purchase $1,000,000 worth of bonds on each Wednesday in August, or $5,000,000 in all, and sell $1,000,000 gold on the first third, and fifth Thursdays, and $2,000,000 on the second and fourth Thursdays of August, or $7,000,000 in all. The President has signed the treaty for the interchange of money orders between the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain. A Washington dispatch of the 30th says nearly 100 witnesses had been examined by the Congressional Ku-Klux Committee m that city. The testimony is printed as the examination progresses, and will make several large volumes. It is now reported that President Grant has abandoned his proposed California trip. Mrs. Robert S. Todd, niece of Mrs. Lincoln, died at Paris, Ky., on the 24th ult. She was married only a few months since. Benjamin F. Coopen a retired produce merchant in New Yo/k city, while suffering on the morning of theSoth ult., attacked his*-wife with a carving knife, and then, believing he had killed her, cut his throat with a razor. Both were in a critical condition. As far as ascertained on the evening of the 31st ult., the total number of deaths from the ferry-boat explosion in New York was fifty-seven. The Ku-Klux Committee adjourned on ‘the 31st ult., until September 20, leaving at Washington as a sub-committee Senators Pool and Blair, and Representative Buckley, to examine a few witnesses there and several others on their way to that city. President Grant has appointed Marsh Giddings, of Michigan, for Governor of New Mexico; William L. Warring, Assessor of Internal Revenue for the collection district of New Mexico. The Cincinnati police courts have recently decided that no license is required to give free concerts in that city on any day of the week. As a consequence of this decision the proprietors of the beer gardens, who had been arrested for breaking the Sabbath, were all discharged. A letter received at Washington from Agent Darlington, dated Cheyenne and Arrapahoe Agency, July 15, says: “ The Indians are all quiet I know of no depredations committed this season yet The Kiowas have been earnestly endeavoring to draw the Cheyennes into a general war. I have some hope that the most tempting *brißis has passed, but the present is no time, in my opinion, to slack our diligence.”. Captain David H. H. Todd, formerly of Lexington, Ky., a brother of Mrs. ExPresident Lincoln, died at Hnnt»ville, Ala., on the night of the 80th ult R. B. McGee, a prominent citizen of Trenton, Tenn., and who, prior to the war, was President of the Branch State Bank at that place, was arrested on the evening of the 30th ult, charged with passing counterfeit money. On searching his baggage $1,200 in counterfeit United States Treasury notes were found. He was committed to jail the next day in default of SIO,OOO bail, and in the evening he managed to scale the wall and escape. The public debt statement August Ist is as follows - Debt bearing coin Interest $1,883,751,650 Interest 59,887,707 Debt bearing currency Interest: Principal Interest 182,85* Matured debt .i Interest 813,436 Debt bearing no Interest 414,646,818 Unclaimed Interest 11,36* Total debt principal $2,845,385,608 Interest.... . ... 89.864,880 Total $*,875,389,885 Coin In Treasury 88,743,709 Currency In Treasury 8,168,816 Total $91,911,0*5 Debt, less cash In Treasury t... 3,981,848,8«0 Decrease In debt during past month. 8.7i.1,1>76 Decrease since March 1,1869 *43,184,401 Paclflc Railroad bonds outstanding amount to *64,618.88*, on which the accrued Interest not yet paid 1S s3*B,' 91. The Interest paid by the United States amounts to $ *,'91,475, ol which $3,063,865 has beenre paid by the transportation of malls. The total amount of bonds purchased, canceled, and destroyed Is $*17,19*,350, jwhlch cost In currency $*«8,998,8'171 Matured blonds to the amount of *6,978,900 have also beat' canceled and destroyed. The President has appointed aa Postmasters : M. Hamilton, of Jacksonville. Fla; Samuel Wakefield, of New Iberia, La; Albert Towle, of Peabrice, Neb,; Jos. D. Treat, of Elko, Nev.; Jaa S. Clarkson, j of DesMolnea, lowa

The amount of the National Bank circulation issued during July last, under the act of July 12, 1870, was $1,781,800. A like amount of three per cent, certificates will be withdrawn from the market and retired. A New York telegram of the Ist says: “The deaths from the Westfield explosion up to this hour are reported at eighty-nine, eight or nine more bodies having been discovered in the past twenty-four hours. A number of persons are still missing, and it is believed that fully 100 victims will be found before the search is over.” The examination of Daniels, one of the Meara lynchers, was had before Judge Puterbaugh, in Peoria, on the Ist. Daniels was admitted to bail in the sum of $5,000. The Supreme Court of Wyoming has decided that women have the right to sit as jurors, under the provisions of the existing laws of the territory, Judge Fisher dissenting. Chief Justice Howe rendered the opinion that, under the Fourteenth Amendment, women throughout the United States have the same rights as men, in respect to suffrage and office-holding. According to the statement in the New York Tims of the 3d, Forrester, the alleged murderer of Nathan, is within the limits of Great Britain, and detective Pinkerton considers the murderer’s capture almost certain, though some time may elapse before it is effected. The official investigation into the causes of the recent terrible steamer explosion at New York was oommenced on the 2d, by a Board of Government Inspectors. As far as ascertained on the 2d the number of killed would reach over 100, and of wounded and missing about 150. Secretary Boutwell has decided that he has no authority to pay the Kentucky war claim lately argued before himThe President has appointed Felix R. Brunnot, of Pittsburgh, Pa., Commissioner of Indian Affairs; Barclay White, of New Jersey, Superintendent of Indian Affare for the Northern Superintendency; George McCullom, Register of the Land Office at Lewis, Idaho. A Washington dispatch of the 2d says: “ The commission of W. Douglas as Commissioner of Internal Revenue, to succeed Pleasanton, was made out last evening, and signed by the Presdent before his departure for Long Branch.” President Grant was in Washington on the Ist, and received the new Ministers from Italy, Germany and the Netherlands. A Cabinet meeting was held, at which all the members were present except the Postmaster-General. The President returned to Long Branch on the 2d. It is said he proposes to make a trip to Chicago some time in September, on which occasion he will be accompanied by several members of the Cabinet. Santanta and Big Tree have been sentenced, in Texas, to be hanged in September, though the judge who tried them promised to recommend a commutation. The pestilential fly, said to be a certain precursor of cholera and other pestilence, has made its appearance in New York. Those familiar with this fly say that it is exactly like the insect that preceded the cholera in Russia, and that advanced as the fly advanced. Its body is divided and shaped like a wasp's from the wast down to the tail, all the lower part of the body being covered with wings of alternate black and yellow. Its back, between the wast and head, is of a greenish blue, while the head is dark brown and perfectly round and fist. "A Washington dispatch of the 2d says: “ The Ku-Klux Sub committee has been engaged in the examination of witnesses. Nothing of interest has been elicited. One class of witnesses testify to peace and order, and to the absence of Ku-Klux in certain Southern localities, while the other class testify in the opposite direction. It is stated that the sub-commltteo will be sent, in October, to investigate the beta connected with the alleged Ku-Klux, 300 of whom were indicted at the recent term of the United States Court at Oxford, Miss. The Illinois Democratic State Central Committee, at a recent meeting, decided to call a State Convention, to be held in Springfield on the 4th of October. A Wilmington, N. C., dispatch of the 3d says: “ Election returns received up to 12 o’clock to-night indicate that a convention is called by a small majority. At Raleigh the Conservatives gain over 900 votes on the last election. The Star estimates that a convention is called by 2,500 majority.” i A Charlestown, S. C., dispatch of the 3d says the election of Gen. Wagner as Mayor, and the whole of the citizens’ ticket, was conceded by a majority of about 500.