Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1871 — THE NEW WORLD. [ARTICLE]

THE NEW WORLD.

Gold 'closed in New York on the 81st at 112,%. In the late examination made of steam boilers, in New York city, nineteen have been found defective and unfit for use. The verdict of the Brooklyn Coroner’s Jury in the Westfield explosion case is the same as the other. They hold the officers of the Ferry Company, the engineer and the Government Inspector to blame, and pronounce the boiler as having been worthless. The steamship Carrie ruptured her boiler, on August 11, near New Brighton, Long Island. The engineer was badly scalded. The public were kept in ignorance about this explosion till the 24th, when the old boiler was replaced by a new one, and information of the case given by the engineer. It is said the boiler had been recently inspected by Government Inspector Matthews. A San Francisco dispatch of the 25th says: “ Captain Brown, U. S. A., sends a message from Los Flores to Los Angeles, that he must have a larger force or an Indian war is inevitable. The number of Indians in Southern California is too insignificant to leave any doubt of the final result.’’ Mrs. Colburn, 4he defendant in the Buffenbarger case, was honorably discharged on the evening of the 25th. A fire in the West Division of Chicago on the night of the 25th destroyed the residence of Jacob Ribskato, whose wife perished in the flames. In escaping from the burning building with his infant child in his arms, Ribskato and the babe were so fearfully burned that their recovery ia doubtful. A Wilmington, N. C., dispatch of the 25th states that reliable information had been received there that yellow fever of a malignant type was prevailing at Charles ton, S. C. From advance sheets of the census, published in Washington on the 25th, it appears that the population of the various States and Territories,' as officially and finally revised at the Census Office, is as follows: Alabama 991.WSNebraaka 1*9,000 Arizona 9.858 Nevada 49,491 Arkansas 431,471 New Hampshire sis 800 California 6f>,947 New Jersey 9 8,09# Colorado !»,S<MlNew Mexico. .. 91,874 Connecticut.... M7,4”4 New York. 4,389,759 Dakota 14,181 North Carolina. 1,071,48! Delaware 198,015 Oklo Dlst. Columbia. 131,700 Oregon 90,993 Florida 187,748 Pennsylvania ...8,891,791 Georgia 1,181,109 Rhode Island... 917,858 Idaho 14,000 South Carolina.. 705,#n« Illinois 9,689 891 Tennessee 1,958,890 Indiana .I,ooo,(B7Texas 818,979 lowa I,l9l,7lWUtah 80,789 Kansas 844,899 Vermont 880,889 Kentucky 1,311,011 Virginia 1,995,1*8 Louisiana 746,915'Washlngton Ter. 98,958 Maine *3o,9ls;West Virginia... 449,014 Maryland 780,MM Wisconsin 1,064,870 Massachusetts . .1,457,851 Wyoming Ter... 9,118 •Michigan I.IBUBQ , Minnesota 489,700 Population of Mississippi 827,499 Slates and Montana 90,695 Territories..Bß,sss,9B3 . The steamer Ladona, owned in New York, waa totally wrecked in a late gale on the coaat of Florida, and twenty of the crew perished. The cargo, amounting In value to $200,000, waa all lost. A terrible accident occurred on the night of the 26th, at Revere, seven miles from Boston, on tho Eastern Railroad. An accommodation train was behind time and stopping at Revere, when the Portland lightning express overtook it and telescoped it. Twenty-one passengers were killed outright, of whom three were women, and forty or# fifty more' were injured. The cars took lire, and two or Uuw persons were consumed. 'Most of

i the wounded were scalded, and their limbs i fractured. The killed aud wounded b> i longed mostly to Lynn and Salem. The list of the dead as reported on the 27th is , as follows.- O. B. Chattuck, Susan F. Cheney, Wm. H. Jeffreys, of Lynn; E. , F. Sanborn, of Providence; Ella Pierson i and James Burns, of Lynn; Ernest S. Morritt, of Danvers; Henry A. Foster, , Miss Foster (his sister), and Wm. H. Emerton, of Providence; Geo. W. Bancroft, of Beverly; Rev. Dr. S. R. Mason, of Cambridgeport; Thos. F. Bancroft, of Lynn; Rev. Dr. Ezra 8. Gannett, of Boston; Aaron Erickson, of Swampscott; Wm. A. Steele, of Beverly; Mrs. P. C. Jasper, J. B. Miller, Mary May, A. Crowley, and two bodies, unrecognized, making twenty-tour in all. Ths Republican State Committee of New York-recently decided to call a convention to meet at Syracuse on the 27 th of . September, for the nomination of candidates for State offices to be filled at the coming election. The Erie mail, west, collided with the first section of the Empire freight, east, near Westpool Station, Pa., on the morning of the 27th, on the Philadelphia & Erie Railroad, causing the death of Reuben Winslow and R. C. Brown, of Lockhaven, passengers; E. W. Hymen, of Williamsport, conductor; and Thos. Gannon, of Dunkirk,fireman of mail train; Jas. W. Ward, of Bcllefonte, Pa., conductor, and William Kellinger, of Altoona, Pa, engineer of the freight train; and danger ously injuring A, M. Atwater, of Lockhaven; Reuben Hiller, of Williamsport; James Shaffer, Jr., of Sinnemahoning, Pa, and P. McCormick, of Baltimore, engineer of the passenger train. Several other persons were injured. M%yor Hall, of Now York city, has declared his intention to sue the Times for the rent for the past six years of’ the ground on which the Times building stands. It is claimed by the authorities that the ground was given by the city, in 1765, to a number of Presbyterian gentlemen, who built a brick church thereon, the conditions of the conveyance being that ft should be forever devoted to religious uses, and to the purposes of a cemetery, and to revert to the corporation in case of its not being used for these purposes. It is claimed, on the other hand, that the ground was purchased by the original proprietor of the Times directly from the trustees of the old brick church, that reversion was at the same time purchased from the city authorities, and that the full consent of the latter, as well as the State Legislature, to the transfer, was obtained A Washington dispatch of the 36th says: “ For some weeks past, the number of counterfeit 50 cent notes detected at the redemption bureau department, lias been very large, between S2OO and S3OO of such counterfeits being discovered daily. They are immediately branded and retamed to the persons sending them in for redemption;” consequently the loss falls upon such persona Hon. B. C. Cook, member of Congress from the Sixth Illinois District, has resigned the office, and the Governor has appointed November 7, the date of the regular election, as the time for holding a special election in the district to fill the vacancy. There were reports at Gpldaboro’, N. C., on the 26th, of great damage to the cotton crop from drought and rust, and that there would be a falling off of onethird from last year’s receipta Concerning the yellow fever at Charleston, S. C., a New York dispatch of the 26th says private telegrams reported the disease as spreading, and that the citizens, greatly alarmed, were fleeing the city. A Charleston dispatch of the 27th says the Medical Society of that city had declared that the yellow fever of a mild type did exist in the city, but that it did not seem of a character disposed to spread. During the recent great fire at Williamsport, Pa, several children were buried in the falling walls of the Packer Building, and many of them were fearfully and totally burned. It is stated that when President Grant leaves Long Branch he will take a trip to Ohio, to visit his father; thence he will go through the oil regions of Pennsylvania, and expects to arrive at Pottsville about September 15. ' V A Wheeling dispatch of the 28th says returns from thirty-five counties in West Virginia had been reoeivei. They give 1,264 majority in favor of a call for a Constitutional Convention. The remaining nineteen counties would not materially alter this result. The low pressure steamer Ocean Wave exploded her boiler at Point Clear, near Mobile, Ala, on the 27th. There were about two hundred excursionists on board, fifty or sixty of whom .were killed and wounded. Captain Davenport,’of the United States steamer Congress, reported on the • 29th to the Navy Department, from St John, N: 8., his return from Greenland. Her cargo, coal, provisions, etc., were transferred safely from the Congress to the Polaris, and the latter sailed-poleward on the afternoon of August 17, with bright prospects and an open season. A New York telegram of the 29th says the subscriptions of the National Banks to the new government l loan are stated at over $60,000,000. The whole loan is, therefore, taken here and In Europe. Par in gold is bid for the bonds here, and there are none offering, m The steamer Wilmington, from Galveston, picked op, on the 26th inst, a boat containing Francis Munte, First. Mate; Minard Simmons, Second Mate; aud Lewis Schlader, seaman, belonging to the bark Linda, of Philadelphia, from New York, bound to New/Orieans, which foundered in the hurricane on the 25th. It is reported that the yellow fever prev*U#d ob board » number of vwecla now

at quarantine, aud much uneasiness continued to be felt in New York about the pestilence. The Union Ferry Boat Company have ordered 2.700 lift-preservers, which, as fast as completed, will be placed on the boats of the oompany. Reports to the 29th give the number of bodies recovered from the wreck of the Ocean Wave as 30. It is believed that many are still under the wreck. Dispatches from Boston of the 29th say the number of deaths from the Eastern Railroad disaster had reached 32. Jno. J. Knapp, of Michigan, has been appointed Special Agent of the Post-Office Department to investigate mail "depredations in Michigan and Indiana, vice Redfield, removed. Southern California is in a state of great . excitement at the indications of a general war with the Indians in that region. The last developments in the official thieveries of the Tammany Ring of New York are to the effect that they drew from the City Treasury the sum of $350,178 for carpeting the new Court House, while the actual cost, as estimated by carpet merchants, was only $13,357. It was stated at the Treasury Department that the subscriptions to the new loan will exceed the amount authorized by law by at least $50,000,000. It is also said that the coin subscription will not exceed $15,000,000. Secretary Fish returned to Washington on the 30th, with the view to arrange matters so as to have everything in readiness for the approaching session of the Geneva commission, which, it is understood, will assemble in December# The following circular was issued from the State Department to-day : Dzpartmzwt ot Stats, I ■ *' Washington, Aug. 80. ( Claimants who have not already filed in the Department of State thetr ctabna against Great Britain, growing out of acts committed by the several vessels which have given rise to the claims generally known as the •‘Alabama clalma,” are requested to do so without delay In order that they may be taken Into account In presenting the aggregate claims of the United States, to be brought before the tribunal of arbitration which la to meet In Geneva In the month of December next. It will not be necessary for the claimants who have already filed their clalma sustained by proof* to take any steps under this notice, unless they may have additional proof to file. No papers already filed will be withdrawn. Claimants most prepare for themselves the proof of their claims. This department will, on application, forward to claimants a copy of the treaty and a circular show ng the form of proof that is advised by the Department In absence of all rales by the tribunal which will pass on the same. The early attenUon of claimants who have not already filed their claims la Invited to this noUce. Hamilton Fish, Secretary. In view of the recent numerous steamboat disasters, the Treasury Department, in conjuncture with Supervising Inspector Gen. Belknap, will immediately issue instructions for the strict enforcement of the law of Congress providing for the better security of passengers in steam vessels of all kinds. The President has appointed Frank Welch, of Nebraska, Register of the Land Office at West Point, Nebraska The Treasury Department has confirmed the appointment of Carver Stickney as Deputy Collector of Cleveland. Francis C. Howard, who was indicted in 1869 for complicity in the alleged drawback frauds of R. B. Caldwell, was on the 30th surrendered by his sureties, and was released fat SIO,OOO ball by Commissioner Shields. A dispatch from Kingston, Jamaica, on the 21st, says the shock of an earthquake was felt there on the 20th. Two freight trains on the Baltimore Central Railroad collided near Fairville station on the 30th, from the willful neglect of one of the trains to follow the schedule rulee. Two hands were badly injured. Dispatches from the East report heavy rains on the 29th, causing much damage from the flood. Many families were obliged to leave their houses, escaping through the second-story windows. Several houses were carried away, and much damage done. The trains on the Hudson River Railroad are delayed to-night, in consequence of there being several feet of water in the tunnel near Troy, caused by a defect in the sewer pipea A special to the Hudson Evening Register on the 30th, from Rondout, states that the severe rains last night caused three breaks in the Delaware & Hudson Canal, at Phillipsport, above-Ellenville. Two of the breaks are 100 feet in width, and the other 75. A Savannah, Ga., dispatch of the 30th says “ the crew of the British bark Mona, Hatfield, master, having mutined at sea, the captain was compelled to shoot one of the mutineers, though only slightly wounding him. On the ship’s arrival at Darien, Ga., the captain was arrested by the negroes of that place and put in jail. He was released on yesterday and is now in this city. The esae will be submitted to the British minister at Washington.” The Wisconsin Republican Convention met in Madison on the 30th, and nominated Gen. 0. C. Washburne for Governor and Milton H. Pettit for Lieut Governor All the rest, of Hie present State officers were resominvld. Advices from San Domingo dated Aug. Bth, say the revolutionists under Cabral have formed s provisional government having its seat at Los Matas. A new and well-organized attack is to be made against the troops of Baez. Baez on his side is not idle. He continues making great military preparations In Azna, and the United States war Nantasket is said to have left Samana, and to be at present cruising near Azna to co operate by sea. Another hurricane has swept over the island of St Thomas, overturning every house and laying the place in ruins. Some 6,000 people have been left houseless and destitute, and nearly 150 have been killed or maimed by the flying debris. ' A telegram of the 31st ult, from New York, says the steamship Java, whid? left Liverpool on the 19th of August, rat Into the Norwegian bark Mthta,on the night of tfio »<Jd of August, and. lent her dowa>

with eleven lives. The Hints was making a trip from Fortimouth to Quebec. She had on board twelve hands of whom bat one was saved by the boats sent oat by the Java. The President arrived in Washington on the !llst ult., very unexpectedly. He went to the various departments, and, in the absence of several Secretaries, made inquiries as to what progress the pablio business had made in his absence. A Cabinet meeting will be held Sept. Ist, after which the President and his secretary will return to Long Branch. The amount of United States currency outstanding on the 81st of Angnst is $395,400,768.85. Three millions of the amount, according to the figures on hand, have been lost, mutilated, or destroyed, and will never be presented for redemption. The Treasury Department on September Ist, issued a notice calling in $100,000,000 of 5-20 bonds of 1862 for redemption.