Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1872 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

THE OLD WOULD. Charles XV., King of Sweden and Norway, died on the 18th at the age of 46. He aecended the throne on the .death of King Oscar, In 1859. His son, Prince Oscar, succeeds him. A special to the New York Herald of the 18th, says letters had been received from Dr. Livingstone, dated July 1, 1872. He was still at Unyanyembe, well, and waiting the arrival of Stanley’s second expedition. The firm of John Fox & Co., of London, have fceen forced to suspend, owing to their connection with houses that have recently failed in Baltimore. Tfteir liabilities are £500,000. L’Olive Descbamps, and De Alvllle, the Communists who were recently executed at Satory, died bravely. Their last words were: “Vive la Republlque! Down with traitors 1” notes have been exchanged between France and Germany concerning the arrest of Edmond About. He is charged with publishing and circulating hostile articles in German territory. The London Labor League has adopted resolutions approving the award of the Geneva Tribunal as binding on England and America together, and promoting the advancment of industry and civilization. There was a frostjtnsorfie parts of England on tlie night of the 20th—the first of the season. The anniversary of the occupation of Rome by Italian troops was celebrated in that city on the 20th, with much enthusiasm. The city was profusely decorated. Oscar, brother of the deceased King, Charles XV., lias succeeded to the throne of Sweden and Norway. All the dignitaries of State have taken the oath of allegiance to the new Monareh. A Paris telegram of the 21st announces that the examination of Edmond About, at Strasbourg, developed no new case against him, and he had been discharged.

The French Government has recently paid to Germany 57,000,000 francs, completing the fifth half milliard of the war indemnity. Hon,. Caleb Cushing left Nice for Bordeaux on the22d, and will soon sail from Havre for America. Senator Sumner has gone to Paris fora few weeks, and will return to America in November. “ •——— Spcials from London on the‘23d state that there was no abatement to the spread of the cholera in Roumania. The nature of the plague is epidemic in the extreme, and it was feared it would spread (Tver trie entire country, One thousand had already died from the disease. .... - The recent removal of the Catholic priest Mcrmillod, at Geneva by the Swiss Government has caused some excitement. His Bishop resists the right of the secular power to remove a clergyman, aud maintains his allegiance to the Pope as superior to all human laws. The authorities of Germany, at Berlin, Have recently stoppeiTTtnr'tnrrisniissTcmrbytelegraph, of a cipher dispatch of 500 words, signed by Napoleon. The Princess of Hohenlohe, half-sister of Queen Victoria, is dead. Tfie opinion of Chief-Justice Cockhurn, disagreeing with the decision of his colleagues in the Geneva Tribunal, ts published in the Loudon Gazette of the 25th. It makes uaffTfry • - . a pamphlet of 250 pages. According to a Paris -telegram of the 25th, eighteen thousand Communists are yet in confinement. It was the Intention, however, to immediately release one-half of this number. Only those accused of assassination, thieving and arson will be tried. .

THE NEW WOULD. Gold closed In New York on the 25th at 118 118%:. .~- It is said that a large portion of the forth coming of the Postmaster-General will he devoted to the subject of postal telegraphy'. Mr. Creswell will urgently recommend Congress to adopt tlie system. lie will also ask for an appropriation to enable him to introduce the postal cards. In August, James Johnson, who had charge of the Stamp Division of the United States Sub-Treasury office, at Now York, obtained a two weeks’ leave of absence, ostensibly to take hjs family to the country. As he did not return at the specified time, suspicion was aroused, arid the Treasury Department ordered an examination of his books. An apparent deficiency of between SIOO,OOO and $200,000 has been discovered. The bondsmen of Assistant Treasurer Hillliouse will, it is said, beheld responsible for the loss. The Labor Reformers of the Fifth Massachusetts District have nominated* James MI Bnffium, of Lynn, for Congress. ExGovernor Marcus L. Wood is the Republican .candidate for Congress in the Sixth New Jersey District. The Democrats of the Secoud Nc-w'Jersey District have nominated Samuel,A-Yorker for Congress. Hon. George H. Pendleton arrived at New York on the 17th, from Europe, Rumors were current in New York city on the 18th that the various organizations had determined to unite on the name of Charles OtConor fur Mayor, but they were subsequently dispelled by the authoritative stgtement of MrT O’Conor that under no circumstance* would he accept the nomination, __

The Indiana Straght out Democratic State Convention, at Indianapolis on the 19tli, nominated the.following ticket: Governor, A. P. Edgerton; Lteufenant Governor, Green Dnnham; Congressmcn-at-Large.W. F. Sherrod and IV. C. Moreau; Secretary of State, Alfred Parsons; Auditor, Otto Boettichcr; Treasurer, Dr. Mcßride; Superintendent of Public Instruction, J. G. Smith; Attorney Gencral, Thomas Bowman: Clerk of the Supreme. Court, A. G. Denis; Reporter of the Supreme Court, J. C. Worcester: Electors G. N. Fitch, Charles Beeves, James Mill Ison, T. J. Foster. . 11 .

The Nevada Democratic Liberal State Con- j vention has nominated R. M. Clarke, C. W. Lightner and M. M. Stone for Electors; C. J W. Kendall for Congress; William Sewall j for Supremo Judge; and J. C. Lewi*-lor ; State Printer. ' ■ \ ■ A. S. McDlll is tire Republican candidate ; for Conercss in the Eighth Wiseon-in Dis- ; trict. Morton 8. Wilkinson is the Liberal ( candldatofor Congress in the First Minnesota ' District. ' / ' The Cincinnati Exposition was visited by 25,000 people.on tlie loth. The receipts wore nearly *5;f)00. y • , , Parker 8 V Lee is the Democratic candidate, and Dr. M. Norton (colored) is the Republican candidate for Congress In tbcrSwrand Virginia District. The Republicans of the Second Maryland DUtHct have nominated Major A, M. Han>ock for Conyrew. ' -

Regulations for the redemption of revonue stamps rendered useless by the repeal of stamp taxes on most instruments under Schedule B, will soon be Issued by Commissioner Douglas, Secretary Delano left Washington on the morning of the 20th for Ohio. The New York Executive Committee of Straight Democrats, have called a State Convention, to meet at Albany, October 8, to nominate an Electoral ticket. The Tammany General Committee on the 20th took action looking to the expulsion of certain members who had not given in their adherence to the. political support of Its National dnd State nominees. A. T. Stewart has declined to allow the use of his name In connection with the candidacy for Mayor of New York City. J. L. G. Williams is the Republican candidate for Congress in the Eighth Massachusetts District. The Republicans of the Thirteenth New York District have nominated Lyman K. Bass for Congress, and the Liberals of the Twenty-second New York District have nominated Judge Henry H. Foster. Horace Greeley arrived in Cincinnati on the 20th. He was met at the depot by the entire Common Council, and escorted to the Burnet House by a large concourse of citizens.

The Annual Fair of the Illinois State Agricultural Society, which closed at Ottawa on the2oth,is said to havebeen the most successful that has been held under that Society’s auspices for many years. The attendance throughout was very large, and everything went off satisfactorily. The aggregate receipts were in the neighborhood of 120,000. The Illinois Straight Democratic State Committee has selected the following ticket: For Governor, Sidney Breese, of Clinton; Lieutenant-Governor, D. S. Storrs, ofjQreene; Secretary of State,-Seth Sutton, of Clark; Auditor, C. 11. Wirtman, of Massac; Treasurer, ITenry West, of McLean; AttorneyGoo. A. Meeeli, of Cook; Clerks of the Supreme Court —Northern Division, John 11. Wilbur, of Stephenson County;Central, E. W. Palmer, of DcWitt County; Southern, C. Fletcher, of Crawford. An Electoral ticket was also selected, the Elee-tors-at-Large being W. C. Goudy, of Cook; H. M- Weed, of Peoria. Tlie Democrats and Liberals of the Ninth Missouri District have nominated Judge Bennet t Pike for Congress, and John B. Clark is the Liberal and Democratic nominee in the Eleventh Missouri District. Pattou Anderson, a Major-General in the Mate Confederate Army, died at his residence, near Memphis, on the 20th. The text of the royal order to gradually abolish negro, slavery in Cuba has reached Havana, hut correspondents say it was regarded everywhere in the island as a dead letter. ~ ! ' A recent Washington dispatch states that persons twEo have “twused- documentary stamps on hand"“after ...the Ist of October, may have them rcdcenierfrhy-forwaibdiiig them to tlie Commissioner’s office at 'Washington, or they may he exeluynged for proprietary stamps. .Regulations for this purpose will be promulgated by the Department in a few days. - .v Preeident Grant was at Newark, N. J., on the 10t.li and 20th, visiting the exposition

there. Mr. A. S. Gallup, of Providence, R. 1., a Director in the Company' which owned the steamer Metis, and who was on board the steamer at the time of its loss, was charged with having used his position and influence with the officers of the vessel to secure his own safety at tlie expense of the safety of others. This charge he and his friends in dignantly denied, and subsequent developments indicate that it was unfounded. The Home National Bank of Chicago, with a capital of $25,000, has been authorized by the .Comptroller of the Currency to commence business.- , Mr. Greeley reached Louisville on the 21st, where he met with an enthusiastic public reception. lion, Garrett Davis, United States. Senator from Kentucky, ,_died at his residence at Paris, Ky., on the morning of the 22d, after an illness of four weeks’ duration. His disease was a gangrenous affection of the lungs. He was seventy-two years of age. The President has appointed as Commissioners to examine the Northern Pacific Railroad, 8. H. Kanfmann, of Washington; Thomas Underwood, of Lafayette, Ind., aud A. C. Sands; of Cincinnati. Cornelius Driscoll died .recently, ifi Philadelphia, as is alleged, from the effects of a blow in a prize tight with Howard Price. The principals and seconds in the fight were arrested, Forrester, the alleged murderer' of Benjamin Nathan, was discharged on the 23d, the District’Attorney advising tfiedtseoiitlnuance of the case, as he had not sufficient evidence to prove the guilt of the prisoner. Forrester was sent to tlie Tombs to await a requisition from the Governor of Illinois, where lie will he sent .to serve out his thirteen years’ imprisonment,.

Business men of New York and other large cities propose to submit to a legal test the decision of the Postmaster-General requiring all matter that has not been fully prepaid to-tie charged double postage. The New York Tribune of tho 24th pubJjghes a letter from ex-Govcrnor A. G. Curtin, of. Pennsylvania, accepting tho nomination of the Liberal Republicans for the PennI sylvania Constitutional-Convention. Helena, Montana, had its first snow-storm of the sehson on the 22d,

A movement has been inaugurated in Chicago for the erection of. a million dollar opera house. The building wtU be one of ; the finest of the kind in America. The carpenters in Chicago have struck for | four dollars a day, and the demand has been I acceded to in many Instance. | Horace Greeley arrived at Indianapolis, -j on’the 33d. and was met *t. the..depot by a large crowd of people. j A Charleston (Si C.) dispatch of the 22d • r-says 4 PA personal altercation occurred in . a restaurant in Columbia last evening he-; ; tween Montgomery, President <jf the State ! j Senate, and Samuel Mellon, regular Repub- i [ lican candidate for the office. John D. Cald- j j well and Major J. M. Morgan, two friends of ! t Melton, who interfered to separate the com- | batants, were shot. Caldwell was instantly : killed and Morgan but slightly wounded. ] The verdict ot the Coroner’s jury | charge* George Tuppol, a friend of Mont- ; g nnery’s, with the willful 'and malicious ,-hooting of Caldwell. The affair-, owing to > the social position of - the participants, j cou««« much excitement. Mr’. .Caldwell !§ a j hrother-in-l&w of Untied State* Senator Rob- • Jniotf, Morgan 1* a wn-th-lftw of flgbrge

A. Trcnholm, late Secretary of the Confederate Treasury. The tragedy grew out of criminations and recriminations of a political nature* 1 * A Washington dispatch of the 24th says: “The Civil Service Examiners of the Treasury Department will have examinations for applicants for vacant $1,200 clerkships on the 11th and 12th of October.- Applications for permission to compete may ha presented up to October 1. From these applications selections will probably be made by the •Board of tho practicable number of the best qualified, in accordance with the rules,” A torpedo boat, which was launched at New York about three weeks before, suddenly sank the other day, after the officers had been making experiments. Three mechanics were on board at the time when she “sank, and after two hours’ work the boat was raised, and the men were found alive, the compressed air with which the vessel was supplied not being exhausted. Naval Constructor Delano has condemned the vessel. The Liberals and Democrats of the Twen-ty-eighth New York District have nominated Stephen T. Hoyt for Congress. A steam canal-boat arrived at New York on the 23d from Buffalo, with a full freight, via the Erie canal, in five days’less time than by the usual horse locomotion. This is the first steam canal boat that had so far made a full trip. During a recent severe thunder storm, several persons were struck by lightning and killed near Milwaukee, among them a girl at Palmyra, a yourg man at Hebron, and two men in the town of Greenfield.

Congressional nominations were made on the 24th by the Republicans in the First, Second and Third Illinois Districts. The candidates are respectively, Messrs J. B. Rice, J. D. Ward and C. B. Farwell. Another unprovoked, and brutal murder occurred in Chicago on the night of the 23d, the victim being a young man named James McWilliams; a compositor in the Daily Times. He was shot, it would seem, without any provocation, by a young man named Thomas Cullin, who was drunk at the time. Uuilin was arrested and committed for trial. The Official vote of Montana for Delegate to Congress is Maginnis, Democrat, 4,515; Cloggett, Republican, 4,198. The Straight-out Democrats of Kansas have issued a call for a State Convention to be held at Topeka, October 3, for the nomination of a State and Electoral ticket. The proprietor of tlie Larrimcr House, Dubuque, while trying to enforce the civil -rights bill in-the case_ of a. colored guest who put up there, by compelling the girls to wait on him at the public table, had to discharge them ail, they refusing to fulfill his commands. A dispatch from McDowell, Arizona, dated on the 9th of September, says the diamond excitemerft had subsided. The Illinois Supreme*Court has granted a supersedeas in-the case of Rafferty, - recently committed and sentenced to be hanged in .CMcaga_fnr the murder of a policeman. Both brandies ot the Baltimore City Council have passed resolutions tendering the hospitalities of the city to Horace Greeley on his visit there on the Bth of October to deliver tlie annual address before the Agricultural Society of. Maryland. Panama papers-of the 18th state that the steamer Venice d’ Or exploded her boilers on the Magdalene River, in Bogota, on the 7th, killing eight persons and seriously scaldingnine others.

Superintendent Bang?, of the Postal Railway Service, estimates that the increase in the number of miles of service for the present meal year ending Juno 30, 1873, will bo about 10,000, against 8,000 for the last fiscal year. George William Curtis declines to run for Presidential Elector on the Republican ticket in New York, fearing that he inay be ineligible, owing to his holding office as a Civil Service Commissioner. The official report of the investigation in the Metis disaster results in the revoking of the licenses of the Captain and the first and second pilots. The report states that the responsibility of the disaster rests upon Captain Burton and two pilots, and some blame is attached to Doane, the first mate. session In Albany on the 23th of the International Convention of Machinists and Blacksmiths, John Ferenbatch, of Cleveland, Ohio, was elected President’. Colonel A. B. Woodruff is the Liberal and Democratic candidate for Congress in the Fifth New Jersey District. D. W. Gooch has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Fifth Massachusetts District. Judge Breese is reported to have written a letter to a friend in Joliet to the effect that his nomination for Governor of Illinois by the State Straight-Democratic Committee was without his knowledge or consent, and that he would not accept. The Rev. Peter Cartwright died at his residence near Pleasant Plains, 111., on the 23th, in his 88th year. The Northern Ohio Lunatic Asylnm, at Newburg, Ohio, was burned on the 25th. There were about six hundred inmates in the building at the time of the fi?e, nearly all of whom were believed tq be safe, and several of them were at large; Miss Walker, seamstress of the.institution, was roasted alive almost in reach of friends; who could render her no assistance, on aecoiint of the heat ahd want of the proper facilities. A boy, name unknown, had a leg broken, and was otherwise injured. He would probably die. Several others were badly burned, and it was believed that three or fijur were lying in the i fkbrit , which was fifteen feet deep, and it ; would require time to get the bodies out, if | there "wre any. The loss ' would approxi mate to $350, 000. There is said, to have been no insurance. ’ ; ' •

The Democratism! Liberal Republicans of the SixthWieco'fffln District have nominated Myron P. Lindlcy for Congress. L. B. Otis, in the First, C. H. Harrison in the Second, ! and J. V. Lc Moyne in the Third Illinois Districts s.rcj he Democratic and Liberal Re r publicair candichites fqr Cougroas. The recent severe storms have done much damage In m.iny sect tofts of the West, A Dubuque (lowajTdispatpeh of the 23th rc- ! ports extensive damage uprth amLwest of -that city. In the town of Monona thirteen j houses and a freight depot were blown down. In view of the recent numerous murders in dybeago,’* second mass meeting of citi--1 KenFSas held on the evening of the 26th to- ; [ consult is to the most ett'ective'w'ay df puti ting a.stop to the tearful prevalence of crime and bloodshed. Commenting on the condi- | lion of .affairs in the city, the imitny fW of I th* 23th »*y»i “‘Whisky *ud Blood"

That U the title of yesterday 1 ! narrative of the last red deed of murder committed in our midst. Mr. Louis Wahl was right when he said that in nine cases out of ten the inciting cause of murder is whisky. The poor wretch who is In Jail today for the wanton and unprovoked slaughter of the printer McWilliams, was the mere instrument of whisky in possession of his brain and in control of his arm. Not Cullin, but Whisky, was the murderer of the poor dead boy who has paid the price of the riot of poison in the blood of his executioner. We simply deal with facts. It is for the people of Chicago—the most Innocent and the most respected of whom may be the next victim —to make the application and apply the [remedy,” The Colored National Liberal Convention met at Louisville, Ky., on the 25th. W. N. Saunders, of Maryland, was chosen President. A resolution Was adopted unanimously nominating Horace Greeley and B. Grata Brown for President and Vice-President of the United States.