Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1872 — THE NEW WORLD. [ARTICLE]

THE NEW WORLD.

Gold closed in New York on the 17th at 114½@114⅝. Secretary Delano returnod 1 6 Washington on the 12th, from Ohio. His health has been quite recruited. President Grant returned to Long Branch from Washington on the 12th. He expected to resume his residence at Washington In about ten days. In reply tp the committee formally notifying him of his nomination by the Louisville Convention, Mr. O’Conor, in a lengthy address, gives his reasons why be cannot accept. Mr. Moreau, in reply, declined to accept this decision as final, and informed Mr. ' O’Conor that they still regarded him as their candidate, and would support him at the polls. A State Convention of New York “Temperance men and Christians,who cannot consistently vote for either Grant or Greeley,” has been called to meet at Syracuse Septembers!, for the purpose ot nominating Electors to vote for the Temperance Presidential ticket.

Horaee Greeley delivered an addreaa at the Vermont State Fair at Johntbnry on the 12th. Manton Eastburn, Episcopal Bishop of the diocese of Massachusetts, died in Boston on the 12th. r ' A Greelav end Brown Ratification meeting was held In New York City on the evening of the 12th. The attendance was estimated at from 40,000 to 60,000. Affairs .in Alaska are said t to’ Be' In a very unsatisfactory condition. The Indians are lawless, and,-' outside of Sitka and vicinity, life and property are constantly lh .danger. __i'. , •• . The Kansas Liberal Republican and Democratic State Conventions; at Topeka on the 12th, agreed npon the following State ticket: For Governor, J. H. Walker; LieutenantGovernor, John Walruff; Treasurer, C. H. Pratt; Secretary of State, J. F. Waakey; Attotaey4i«Hsral, R- -F: Wagon tomlent of Public Instruction, J, D. Bawyer;

Chief-Justice,"H. C. McComas; Members of Congress, 8. A. Briggs, W. H. Laughlin and General Robert Mitchell. Congressional nominations on the 12th: Republican—Colonel Jeff. Seavy, Fifth Missouri District; S. Burdet, Seventh Missouri. Liberal and Democratic —J. F. Duncombe, Ninth Iowa; S. A. Riggs, W. R. Laughlin, and General Robert Mitchell, Kansas. Over 20,000 persons visited the lowa State Fair grounds at Cedar Rapids on the 12th — the fourth day of the Fair. The recent Episcopal Convention in Chicago unanimously adopted a report of the Committee on Education, recommending the establishment and support of diocesan and local schools. Chaffe (Republican) has been re-elected Delegate to Congress from Colorado by about 1,500 majority. The Rev. Sanuel J. Browne, who, last July, shota boy for robbing in his garden, died, a few days ago, at bis residence near Cincinnati, aged 85. In Texas, the election will run through -four days, the sth, 6th, 7th, and Bth of November. ,

General A. R. Wright has been nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Eight .Georgia District,-.. ~ A Little Rock (Ark.) dispatch of the 12th says Williams, the Deputy Sheriff shot in Pope County a few days before, was dead. Letters from Russellville contain the report that in his dying ’ statement he laid all the blame of the troubles on the present officials. A Washington telegram of the 13th says: “Although it is thought at the ' Indian Bureau that there is no danger of an Indian war, official advices show that serious hostilities are probable, at a very early day, along the whole Indian line.” The Republicans of the Thirty-first New York District have nominated Walter L. Sessions for Congress; John W. Hazleton has been renominated by the Republicans of the First New Jersey Congressional District ; John O. Whitehouse is the Liberal and Democratic candidate for Congress in the Thirteenth New York District. # Ex-Governor Curtin, in a letter published on the 18th, declines the nomination for Congress by the Republicans of Centre County, Pa. Edward J.oy Morris, recently nominated for Congress by the Liberal Dem ocrats of the Second Pennsylvania District, has declined to accept. By the explosion of a foundry boiler in Cincinnati on the 13th, three persons were killed and nine badly injured. A few evenings ago, in Scott County, Ind., an eight-year-old boy named Loftus became angry at a little girl seven years old, a daughter of Jerry Chandler, and, taking up a shot-got, fired the contents into her stomach. The gun was lyadetl with Blugs. The girl lingered till mdrning, when she died. The Democrats and-Liberals of the Second Wisconsin District have nominated General George B. Smith for Congress. A reunion of several regiments of Ohio Volunteer Infantry was held at Tiffin, Ohio, on the. l&h, and was well attended. The nextt reunion will be held at Sandusky, on the 9th of September, 1873. Over 20,000 people visited the Louisville (Ky.) Exposition oil the 12th. The receipts at the door were $5,000. Beveral failures have recently occurred In Baltimore, amounting in the aggregate to about $2,000,000, with assets sufficient to

cover the liabilities. The suspended firms are principally engaged in the wholesale grocery business. Lloyd Downes, Jr., is the Republican candidate for Congress in the Sixth Maryland District. The Republicans of the Eighth Georgia Congressional District have nominated Philip Clayton. A Washington dispatch of the 14th says a telegram had been received at the State Department from Hon. Bancroft Davis, agent of the United States, stating that the text of the award of the Arbitrators at Geneva had been publicly announced there. The United States will receive the gross sum of $15,500,000 for losses sustained.by the acts of the privateers Alabama; Florida, and Shenandoah, after leaving Melbourne. Daniel B. Judeon hSs been unanimously nominated for Congress by the Nineteenth New York District Democratic and Liberal Republican Conventions. A recent New York dispatch says: “During the past two weeks there have been in and around the city about fifty suicides, actual and attempted, more than have been knows in the same time for many years. This destructive epidemic continues. ” .¶ James Kennedy, who was pardoned out of the Illinois State Penitentiary, where he was serving out his sentence for playing the confidence game, and who was arrested on a charge of being implicated in the Tyndale murder at Springfield, has been discharged, the Grand Jury falling to find an indictment against him for this latter offense.

Hon. W. W. Merritt has been for Congress by the Liberal Republicans of the Eighth lowa District, and the Rev. Dr. Asa Mahan, of Adrian, by the Liberals of the Becond Michigan District. \ 1 In Chicago, on the 14th, Christopher Raf--ferty, the murderer of Policeman O’Meara, was sentenced to be hanged on tbe 4th day of October. A Washington telegram of the 15th says abont one hundred claims,, with proofs, had been filed before the Commission on the claims of citizens of the United States against Spain. It was said that by tbe Ist of October the Commission Will formally enter upon the, consideration of the eases. It was expected that in a few days Dr. Houard weald file a claim for a very large amount of money. JohnO. Whitehouse la the Liberal candidate for Congress In the Thirteenth New York District. General W. T. Sherman arrived at New York on the 16th, from Europe. . The Kennebec (Me.) Journal of the 17th publishes complete official returns of the late election of Governor from the entire State except some small places which last yearthrew a total vote of 838 about evenly divided betwen the two parties. These returns give Perham, 71,824; Kimball, 54,742; majority for PeTfiam-, 17,082. Matt Morgan, the artist, wais mistaken for a burglar, while.calling on a friend In New York the other night, and locked up in a station-house. A recent New York dispatch says that within a week two poor lunatics, both harmless and one of them a cripple, had been fatally beaten and kicked by a brutal keeper named Thomas Farrell, at the New York -Aaylntn.for.the Farrell was arrested. One of the victims

of the cruelty has since died; Farrell denies that he inflicted the punishment, but admits that parties in the Inetltuto were whipped. Private advices received from members of Lieutenant Wheeler’s exploring party, dated Fillmore, Utah, September 3, state that their operations were delayed by hostile Indians. The military escort had had several fights with the Ute Indians, in one of which nine Indians were killed and many wounded. • Deseret City, in Central Utah, a town con taining 140 houses, was found deserted by the party, the inhabitants having fled for safety. The second annual Convention of the National Catholic Temperance Union will be held in Cleveland, Ohio, on Thursday, October 10. ; The “straight” Democrats of Michigan have called a State Mass Convention to meet at Jackson September 27, to nominate Electors and a State ticket. A Pittsburgh dispatch, of the 16th announces that delegations to the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Convention had been arriving constantly throughout the day from various parts of the country. The Republicans of the First Arkansas District have nominated Asa Hodges for Congress, by acclamation. The Grand Lodge of Independent Orfier of Odd Fellows of the United States assembled in Baltimore the 16th. The forty-one Grand Lodges and thirty-five Grand Encampments were fully represented, the 127 representatives comprising the Grand Lodge being all present. According to the monthly report of the Agricultural Department, the cotton crop of the present year promises a small increase over that of 1871.

A Washington telegram of the 16th says the Geneva award includes the interest, which reduces the actual amount of damages to $12,000,000. “Attorney-General Williams, who is the only member of the Joint High Commission now in Washington, says that that the .award covers fully all that the American members expected could be awarded, while the sum is actually short of what the English members conceded might be due, under the declaration of Earl Russell, as set forth in the correspondence between Minister Adams and the British premier.” General Sherman reached his home in Washington on the evening of the 17th. Rev. Oscar Chute, a Unitarian clergyman, has been nominated for Congress by the Lib--erals and Democrats pf the First New Jersey District. : xi":" ” Governor Curtin is reported to have accepted the Democratic and Liberal nomination as delegate to the Pennsylvania Btate Constitutional Convention. The telegraph annonnees a large attendance upon the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ National Convention, which assembled in Pittsburgh on the 17th. The welcoming address was delivered by General J. B. Sweizer. He was followed by Governor Geary. After prayer by the Rev. Dr. Preston, General A. E. Burnside addressed the Convention. General J. B. Hawley, of Connecticut, was called upon to preside. Committees on Permanent Organization and Resolutions were appointed. Senator Wilson was present and addressed the Convention in the afternoon. General John A. Logan, of Illinois, was chosen permanent President,, with a list of Vice-Presi-dents. Speeches were made by several gentlemen, when the Convention adjourned to the 18th.

The First National Bank qf Buchanan, Mich., with, a capital of $50,000, has been authorized to commence business. The rate of taxation in Illinois for- State purposes this year will be seven and a half mills on the dollar, a reduction of one and one half mills from that of lust year. William Schweigert, for the killing of Kane Higgins, near Chicago, a fßw Weeks ago, has been tried, found guilty of murder, and sentenced to imprisonment for life. The Straight-out Democratfc"Comraittee for Ohio, appointed by the Louisville Convention, has called a State Convention to meet in Columbus on the second day of October. Jefferson Davis was present at the Cincinnati Exposition_on the 17th. At the examination, in New York, on|the 18th, of Forrester, the alleged murderer of Nathan,, a female witness testified that she positively recognized the prisoner as the man she saw on the night of the murder entering the basement of the - Nathan manslob. Six hundred Mormons arrived at New York from Europe on the 17th, en route for Utah. ' The Soldiers and Sailors’ Couvention in Pittsburgh, at its sesslon.on the 18th, adopte<t» series of resolutions declaring in favor of Grant and Wilson. The Central National Bank of Chicago, with a capital of $200,000, has been authorIzed by the Comptroller of the Currency to commence business. Hon. Thomas Swann has been renominated by the Democrats of the Fourth, and William J. O’Brien by the Democrats of the Third Maryland Districts. A dispatch received in Washington on the 17th from Holly Springs, Miss., annonnees the arrest of David Flynn, a notorious counterfeiter of forty gears’ standing, and nine accomplices, with all their dies, tools, galvanic battery, chemicals, furnace, and a quantity of manufactured coUi. The National Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, at its recent session in Baltimore, elected the following officers: Mott Worthy Grand 81re ( C. A. Logan, of Kansas; Right Worthy Deputy Grand 81re, M. J. Durham, of Kentucky; Right Worthy Grand Corresponding and Recording Secretary, James L. Rldgely, of. Maryland, re-elected; Right Worthy Grand Treasurer, Joshua Vansant, of Maryland, re-elected.

Twenty-two years ago the people of Deering, Me., hod their cows milked over night, corn and soap-grease, and other articles stolen. One morning a woman going to milk discovered a repulsive human being in the hay mow, with hair grown over his eyes ana both feet frozen. He was taken to the almshouse, and for twenty years has only spoken in monosyllables. He was extremely filthy in his habits, and nothing has ever been known Of his history. The other day, to the surprise of all, he pronounced the word “England,” and on smng asked if he came from there and would like to go back again, he said “Yes." Then he refusea to speak, refused food, and died on Sunday. He haa (lied and preserved his life’s secret, and the doctors cannot tell what ailed him, or if he was insane. •—Bradford the Aerican artist, is making both money and fame in England. »