Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1871 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

THE OLD WORLD. Ott the Ist President Thiers sent to the French Assembly hi* first message since the prolongation of his powers. He thanks the Assembly for its expression of confidence, repeat* hi* protestation* of dovotion to the country, and hopes to succeed in the rehabilitation of France. ; A London dispatch of the Ist announces that Right Honorable Sir Alexander Cockburn had been gazetted as British member of the Board Of Arbitration which is to meet at Geneva under the treaty of Washington. Foreign advices received In New York city on the Ist report that cholera and famine were still making fearful ravages among the people in Persia. The Court-Martial at Versailles, on the morning of the 2d, pronounced the following sentences on members of the Commune brought before it for trial: Fere and Lullier are condt mned to suffer death; Urbian and Trinquet, imprisonment for life at hard labor Biliioray, Champy, Regere, Orousset,., Verdure and Ferrat, deportation and confinement in a fortress; Jourde and Ra#toule, simple deportation; Gourbot, six months’ imprisonment and a fine of 500 francs; Clement, three months’ imprisonment. Deschamps aud Paront are acquitted. M. Brissy was also sentenced to suffer death. • • The anniversary of the surrender of Napoleon and the French army at Sedan was celebrated throughout Germany on the 2d. The festivities were of a patriotic character. The number of emigrants from Liverpool during the month of August was 4,000 greater than in the same menthol the previous year. The Grand Duke Alexis sailed fro™ Cronßtadt, in the frigate Bwetland, for the United States, on the 3d. The cases of cholera which have occurred Ip -St. Peter drorg slnfce the appearance off the dlseasd'in’ itAg'H st*27, 1870, to Au-. gust 10,1871, number 7,038. Of this number, 2,903 proved fatal. In Moscow, during the same period, 4,130 persons had attacked, of whom 1,900 died.

A monster Fenian demonstration was held in Dublin on the night of the 3d, at which resolutions demanding the release of Fenian prisoners were adopted.. After the a*3journnwat«f the meeting a riot occurred, and an attack wa3 made on the police. Six policemen were fatally injured, and eighteen slightly hurt. Twen-ty-seven rioters were arrested. Disorderly persons were in ths streets all night singing seditious songs. ~ At a railway accident m Northern Franco on the 4th, ten persons were instantly killed and a large number injured. In a speech delivered on the 2d, Gladstone expressed his joy that Englishmen can now look on Americans as friends. “ We may ipdulgfl in the hope that all controversy between tlje two peoples has been settled.” ' Germin advices received Ai New York on the 4th show that the Roman Catholic movement against Papal infalibility, in Austria, Prussia, Switwrland, Silesia, Hungary, and elrewfiere, is gaining strength and adherents everywhere. Over 1,000 Catholic families in Vienna alone subscribed to Dr. Dollinger’s views, in fourylays aijpr hal been promulgated. A London dispatch of the 4th says fatal cases of cholera had occurred in Dahts’g, Elbisg, Alton*, CoWcnU, L4psig and Vi enna.

Advices from Arecibo, of August 22, report a fearful hurricane in the Bahamas. Several American vessels were wrecked. The trial in Paris of stk females charged with complicity in the incendiary acts oi the Commune, was concluded on the sth. Pour of them were sentenced to death, one to imprisonment in fortress, and one to ten years’ solitary imprisonment. A dispatch from Dublin, on the sth, says that the prisoners taken during the recent riots were cheered by the people, while the officers of the law were hissed The rioters were assisted by a large number of women in their assault upon the police. ' Dr. Karl Marx, a leading spirit of the International Society, died in London, on the sth, in his 53d year. A Madrid journal, received in New York on the sth, contains a statement that at a meeting of the Central Committee of Internationals, held m London, it was resolved to shrink before no obstacle in order to carry to success the principles of the Ju consideration that the greatest of ' these obstacles are M. Thiers, the Kings of Belgium, Italy* Spain, and Portugal, it was resolved 1 that they be assassinated, and it was also resolved to set fire to all the workshops, factories, and establishments, to compel the hungry, unemployed Workmen to take part in the sooial war, Fqjix Pyatt, Bergeret, and other refftgW members" of the Commune, took part in the discussion. from Egypt, received in- New York city on the sth, state that it is re-, ported that the Viceroy had dismissed all Americans in his service* both in the army and civil departments. This stop had been taken in coirsetpience of the ill feeling and jealousy displayed toward American by numerous Turkish officials high in standing and influence. It was reported in London on the 6th that the Majq^is, of Lgrae had been ap pointed Governor General of Indian. The "Marquis of LanSdowne Would succeed Earl Bpcnce aa Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. A case of Cholera was reported in Liverpool on th4.tth. A terrible explosion occurred in a coal mine pesr Wigan,. Lancashire, on tho morning of the Cth. tfhe number killed y stated at sixty-nine. The scenes around the inouth off the mine were heart r#nd-

» * ing. A dispatch from London on the afternoon of the 6th says there had been two more explosions in the same mine at Wigan, and the shaft had been bricked up. The Emperor of Germany, accompanied by Prince Bismark, arrived at Salzburg on the night of the 6th. He was received by the Emperor of Austria, who was attended by a brilliant suite. The sovereigns conversed together for a quarter of an hour. A correspondent of a Lonpon paper, writing from Shiraz under date of June 23, says: “The famine in Persia may now be said to have almost come to an end, but the distress caused by it will continue for yet a long time. The price of bread has fallen considerably, but all the property of the poorer classes, excepting only the most necessary clothes, has long since been sold or exchanged for bread, and it is but too evident that starvation will he the fate of a great many more.” A St. Petersburg special, received in New York on the 6th, reports cholera still raging in the interior of Russia. In some places the proportion of deaths was very high. A Vienna dispatch of the 7th says: “It is stated positively that no treaty was signed at Gastein. A dispatch from Salzburg says Austria and Germany will consider the question jointly as it arises, and Ru sia is not mentioned in connection with the combined attitude of the two powers. It ifc added that Austria and Germany have resolved to oppose the machinations of the International Society,” The steamer Leader, from Dantzic for Amsterdam, has been lost at sea. So far as ascertained on the 7th, not a single person survived. Portions of the wreck had been picked np. The Leader was a freight and passenger steamer, plying between Amsterdam and Dantzic. The number of persons aboard is not known, but it is feared the loss of life is heavy. The officers and crew in all numbered about twenty-five men. , A London telegram of the 7th lays the cholera in the Baltic provinces of Prussia was abating. At Konigsterg there were forty new cases and twenty-eigkt deaths on the 4th, and on the sth only seventeen new cases and fifteen deaths. There had been but one fatal case at Stettin. At Dantzic the disease had been pronounced epidemic. The anxiety which had been frit at Berlin aid throughout Germany was decreasing. It was confidently hoped that the epidemic would be stayed in its progress. The few cases that occurred at Paris apd in London are said to have been a different type from the Asiatic scourge.

THE I£EW WORLD. Gold closed in New York on the 7th at 118%. The statement of the public debt for September Ist is as follows: Debt bearing compound intere.t, 1831 *688,900 Accrued interest 31,108,488 Debt bearing currency Internet 48,518,000 Internet 310,407 Matured debt..,.. 1,8 t,BH Interest *6,989 Bearine no Interest...... 411,181.556 Unclaimed internet.... 9,81* Total debt 8,838,171,096 Interest 31,733,497 Total **,372.901,697 Ooia InTreaenry 90,813,891 Onrrencyin Treasury 7,068,345 Debt, lesscaeb in Treaenry *,274,1*1,861 Decrease during Auguet 9 90i,*7# Decrease since Marcn 146.536,280 Decrease since March 1, 1869 *51,840,809 Tlic total amount of bonds issned to the Pacific Railway was *64.818.532, on which the United Mates has paid *22,245,833 interest, and the comJianles, by transportation, mail, etc., *819,108, earing *61*,148 interest accrued, bnt not yet paid by the Treasury Deportment. The pfehident left Washington on the night of the Ist for Long Branch. lie will resume his residence in Washington about October 1. Owing to the cool weather, which seemed to have a favorable influence in abating the disease, no new cases of yellow fever were reported at Charleston, 8. C., on the Ist. Senator Clayton arrived in Little Rock Ark., oh the night of the 31st ult.,andwas serenaded by a few persoual friends, and made a speech. The next morning he was arrested by the United State* Marshal for the Eastern District of Arkansas, on the oharge of issuing a certificate of election td General George Edwards as member of Congress from this district, in violation of the Enforcement act of Congress. The Senator gave bonds for his appearance at the October term of the Federal Court. The indictments found sgainst the President and Superintendent Of the Staten Island Ferry Company, and the engineer of the Westfield, are for manslaughter in the third degree. The indictment against James K. Matthews, United States Inspector of Boilers, is for manslaughter in the fourth degree. ‘ The horse disease In New York city and Brooklyn was reported, on the 3d, to be on the increase. Another of the injured by the Westfield explosion, Francis Haggerty,pf Brooklyn, expired on the 3d, at his residence in that city. , At a Cabinet meeting in Washington on the Ist all the members were present except Secretary Boutwell and Postmas-ter-General Creswell. The condition of the Month was,considered, especially the ajsaffeclirfflta’id reported acts of unlawful Violence in certain counties of South Carolina. Three reports from Admiral Rogers were laid before the Cabinet by Secretary Robeson. The United States will not renew the attack on Corea, but await the result of the British expedition. It is thought that ultimately the United States, Great Britain and the North German Confederation may form an allianoe against Corea. The President has appointed the following Postmasters: Wm. Weldon, lowa Falls, lowa, reappointed; E. L. McAllister, Champaign, Ill.; Jas. W. Patterson, Humboldl, Ivsn.; Emerson J. H. Taylor, Brztm&n, Montana. A fearful election riot is reported to have occurred sit La Mesilla, New Mexioo, on the Sflth nit. Two meetings—Democrat^

’ ' • Sr and Republican—were held In the evening, and after they adjonrned a genertJl fight ensued, in which seven persons were killed, seven or eight mortally wounded, and over twenty others more or less injured. _ ’ It was thought in Washington oh the 2d that executive measures would soon be taken ordering Kansas rquatter* who have settled on a portion of the Indian Territory to vacate it, under certain pains and penalties, the land having been pet apart for the sole use of the Indians. Hon. Marsh Giddlngs, the new Governor of New Mexico, was inaugurated on the 24th ult. A largely-attended mass-meeting of citizens, irrespective of party, was held at Cooper Institute, New York city, on the< evening of the 4th, to protest against the alleged frauds on the part of the city officials. A senes of twelve resolutions was adopted, which dec’are the city and county debt more than doubled within the last two and a half years, being now $118,000,000, or over $63,000,000 more than' when Mayor Hall was inaugurated, while there is reason to believe that many millions more will be paid out on floating aDd contingent claims unless the present officials are removed or the proceedings arrested. The resolutions name William M. Tweed, Richard B Connolly, and A. Oakley Hall as the officers directly arraigned at the bar of public opinion for these offenses, and declare that unless they can meet the charges by other evidence and on different pleas than have yet been furnished in their behalf, the credit of the city of New York and the material interests of its citizens will demand that they be deprived of the offices which they have dishonored and the power* which they are abusing. The Executive Committee of the American Woman’s Suffrage Association has decided to hold the next annual meeting in Philadelphia on November 22 and 23. The official vote at the late election in Kentucky was counted at Frankfort on the 4th, and all the State officers commi* sioned. The official majorities are as follows:. Governor, P. H. Leslie, 36,978; Lieutenant-Governor, J-- G. Carlisle, 39,637; Attorney-General, John Rodman 39,859; Auditor, D. Howard Smith, 49,146; Treasurer, J. W. Tate, 30,838; Register, J. A. Grant, 39,094; Superintendent of Public Instruction, H. A. M. Henderson, 41,270. No official returns were received from Wolf County, where Leslie had 180 majority, Governor Leslie has selected A. J. James as Secretary of S’ate. W. 11. Bolts is to be Assistant Secretary.

At a large meeting of the Union Republican Association, in the Twentieth District of New York city, on the evening of the sth, a resolution was unanimously, adopted recommending Horace Greeley to the National Convention as the candidate of their choice for the Presidency# A LoDg Branch dispatch of the sth says .a committee of 20 of the Wannoth Louisiana delegation had an interview with the President on that day, and laid before him their grievances. During the conversation the President said be had not authorized the use of troops, and that Gen. Reynolds, when he filled the requisition of Marshal Pickard, did not know that they were to be used aj, a political convention. At Somers, Wis., on the 3d, a farmer named William Smith, aged seventy-three, found a couple of young men on his place engaged in shooting pigeons. Mr. Smith told them his wife was unwell and he did not want them shooting so close to his house Sunday moming.*Some angry words passed between them, when one of the young men, only about twelve feet from Mr. Smith, raised his gun and fired at him. The shot took effect in his breast, and shattered his arm fearfully. It was feared the wound would prove fatal. The young men were subsequently arretted at Kenosha. Their names arc Jacob Neiderprim, who did the shooting, and Fred. Walker. It is reported that the hostile Indians of Dakota Territory were recently concentrating in the Yellowstone region, with the evident purpose of opposing the survey of the North Pacific Railroad thrOfigb that Territory. The trial of Thomas McGehan, for the murder of Myers, in Hamilton, Ohio, com menced on the sth, in the Montgomery County Common Pleas, to which it has been removed by the change of venue. Horace Greeley delivered an agricultural address at the fair of the Tippecanoe County (Ind.) Agricultural Society, on the 6th. There were 6,0()0 people in attendance the second day of the fair. The city election in Wilmington, Del., on the sth resulted in favor of the Republicans. For President of the Council, Joshua Mavis, has about 450 majority, and Euligore, for Tfeasurer, 600. The Charleston, S. C., Board of Health reports that no deaths from yellow fever occurred within the twenty four hours ending on the morning of the sth. Hon. P. H. Leslie, Governor elect of Kentucky, was inaugurated on the sth, with ceremonies usual upon such occasi>ns. The oath of office was administered by the venerable Judge Robertson, Chief Justice of Kentucky, who is over eighty years old. After the conclusion of the ceremonies, Judge Robertson announced his resignation of the chief-justiceship of the State.

, . Advices from San Domingo, received on the 6th, report, the arrival there of a commissioner from Hayti, the object of whose visit, it Is said, is the negotiation of some treaty securing the independence of that country. Several days ago much excitement was caused at the East >lj>y the finding of the body of a young woman in a trunk which ; had been checked at N ew York city for Chicago. 0 n investigation the remains were fully identified as being those of a young lady of Paterson, N. J. r named Alice Augusta Bowlsby, and her death waa believed ,'i ,

to have resulted from the treatment of an abortionist of New York city, a “ Dr.” Ascher Rosenzweig. A lover of the young lady, Walter Conklin, who, It is thought, was cognizant at the timeof the operation which caused the death of the young woman, subsequently committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. The victims ot this tragedy were respectably connected, and moved in good society. An effort will be made to convict and legally punish Rosenzweig as being the cause of the young lady’s death. The Now York Democratic State Convention is called to meet at Rochester October 4. The remains of Alice A. Bowlsby were taken to Paterson, on the 6th, for interment. A New York dispatch says it has transpired that Rosenzweig has murdered many women by malpractice, and that his record will bo shown to be terrible. A man who went to his house declares that Rosenzweig’s den was a perfect charnel house; that he saw a number oi dead bodies lying in his establishmhnt, and that it was a sickening and horrible sight to see the brutal manner in which women were treated who applied to him for professional services. The President has appointed John CHillman, of Washington Territory, Register of the Land Office at Vancouver, and J. H. Wickiser, Attorney for Utah Territory. - New 3 from the Wyoming election, received on the 6th, was to the effect that the Republicans have a majority of two in the Senate, and the Democrats a like majority in the House. The second Cincinnati Industrial Exposition was formally opened on the evening of the 6th. . / ' In a trotting match at Milwaukee on the 6th, between Goldsmith' Maid and Lucy, the former made a mile in 2:17, thus beating Dexter’s fastest recorded time -2:17MFive deaths from yellow fever occurred At Charleston on the 6th. The cool weather was having an unfavorable effect on the sick, but there were hardly any new cases. The New Jersey Republican Stata Convention, held at Trenton on the 7th, nominated Cornelius Walsh as candidate for Governor. An application was made before Judge Barnard, of York city, on the 7th, for an injunction restraining the city and county tfflcials from the further paying out of public moneys. The injunction was refused as to tax collections and payments of accruing liabilities, but granted against issuing bonds. Bail has been refused for “Dr.” Rosenzweig, (in jail in New York city, for the murder of Miss Bowlsby. A Washington dispatch of the 7th says: “Much progress has been made at the Department of State in arranging claims under the Treaty of Washingtbn. The British agent in this city has not only received a large number -of claims heretofore filed in England, but claimj from British subjects in this country.” In the recent election in California the Republicans have carried the State by a majority of about 3,000. The American romolcgical Society commenced its annual session at Richmond, Va., on the 6th. Twenty six States were represented by delegations. The contributions of fruits were the finest ever exhibited. A dispatch from Galveston, Texas, on the 6th, states that the American bark Harvest Home was attacked 1»y a force of Mexicans off Bar Santa Anna on the night of the 27th of last month, and her master, E. C. Dickey, was obliged to put to sea without completing her cargo. The American bark Brothers was captured by an armed force of Mexicans also on the 27th of August, off Santa Anna, and the captain was forced to abandon her. He was picked up by the Harvest Home and arrived at Galveston on the sth. It is understood that the Captain will visit Washington and make a full statement of all the fhets in the case to the government authorities. Governor Leslie, of Kentucky, has ap- . pointed General Fayette Hewitt, Quartermaster General of Kentucky, and Commissioner Judge William Pryor, Circuit, Judge Eleventh Judicial District, as Chief J ustice for the unexpired term of Judge Robertson, resigned. Term expires In one year.