Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1872 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

THE OLD WORLD. Aberdeen, Scotland, and its vicinity, was visited by a terrible rain storm on the 25th. The railway station was submerged and streets were impassably flooded. Crops were ruined. Bancroft Davis, Agent of the United States before the Alabama Claims Arbitration Tribunal, sailed from Liverpool on the 26th, for New York. In a recent speech at Glascuw, Mr. Lowe, Chancellor of the Britieh Exchequer, severely condemned Sir Alexander Cockburn in not signing the award for damages in the Alabama claims, and tor publishing an argument, which opens lip the question and renews all the ill-feeling. He insisted that it is the duty of England to accept the award loyally. A Ylennd dispatch of the 28th says the health of the ex-Empress Carlotta was improving. A Berlin letter says that during, the recent reception in that city of the Imperial party, eight persons were suffocated and trampled to death on one night, and fifteen more were mortally wounded. The mounted polieecharged'the masses at one time with drawn sabres. General Garibaldi, in a letter to the President of the International Peace Congress, at Sugona, Switzerland, alludes to the set--tlement of the Alabama Claims controversy by peaceful means, and heartily approves of this sublime idea of solving international disputes. Advices from China report that the rice crop is abundant.,:- A . Victor Hugo has been laminated by the Republicans of Algiers for member of the French Assembly.

—.Gambe.tta, in a recent upeech at Grenoble, Savoy, criticised the conduct of Thiers in prohibiting public celebrations of the anniversary of the first Republic. The GovernGambetta’s course, and his speecnes are “considered indiscreet and illtimed, and as calculated to needlessly agitate the country, which needs repose. It was reported in Madrid on the 30th ult. that the Spanish Government had resolved to submit to the other European powers the question of the justice of its claims against the United States for damages by Cuban filibustering expeditions. A recent Washington dispatch says that private advices from Japan report a crisis in public-affairs, and indicate the ascendency of the old Japan party over the Reformers, and an end, for the present, of the spread of civilization in the Eriipire. Minister Mori is to be succeeded by a representative of the non-progressives. Horace Capron, who went from Washington as Commissioner of Agriculture to fill the same post in Japan, has been discharged. Peshine Smith, who went to organize a Law Department there, has also been discharged. Information from Europe represents that the Japanese Embassy to the Western treaty powers was stranded in London without funds or authority. Particulars have been received of the burning and sinking in the harbor of Yokohama ofthe steamer America, which accident happened on the 20th of August. Three Americans apd fifty-nine Chinese, besides some Japanese,*: lost their lives. There was $300,000 in treasure and light freight on board. During the pist three months, 64,000 emigrants sailed from Liverpool for America. On the morning of the 2d, a passenger train-from London for Edinburgh, while running at a rapid rate of speed to make up lost time,came in collision,near Kirtlc Bridge, with a freight train, and was badly wrecked. Eleven persons were killed, and several others injured. ' ( A Paris dispatch of the 2d| says: “The departure from Alsace and Lorraine of in-, habitants who decline to assume German citizenship are upon an rrnnTense scate It--is-estimated thatßß,ooo emigrating Alsatians will take up their residence in Nancy alone, while large numbers will go tp other places. Eighteen thousand persons have left Metz the last fortnight to seek homes under French jurisdiction. The population of that “citynow numbers only 10,000.

THE NEW WORLD. Gold closed in New York on the 2d that. atIKVUnder the amended Post-Office law, new andmore stringent regulations have been adopted to secure the. full prepayment of postage. Where this 4e,^iot-^OHe T <touM.rA* required amount is to be collected of the person receiving the letter. For instance, if a letter requites two- stamps (that Is, weighs over half an ounce), and but one is put on, the person receiving it vv 111 be required to pay six cents; if three stamps, are required, and two are left off, he will haye_to pay twelve cents, and so on. The rule is already being enforced. J. Milton Turner, colored, Minister Resident at Monrovia, Liberia, has instituted suit against the proprietors of the Arlington House in Washington on the ground of having been refused admission as a boarder. Connecticut Straight-out Democrats have put in the field a Presidential ticket, headed by ex-Congressman Bishop, of Bridgeport. The Republicans of the Twenty-eighth New York District have nominated Freeman Clark for re-election to Congress.’ Mr. Greeley delivered speeches at Williamsport and Bunsbnry, the 26th. The Board of Equalization of the State of New York give the total value of real estate at $1,641,379,410, and of personal ’nroperty at $447,238,935—t0ta1,’ $2,088,627,445.’ President Grant, accompanied by General »Porter 5 arrived in Philadelphia, on the 26th. He was serenaded in the evening and made a brief speech in response. I Enoch L. Fancher has been sworn in as, Judge of the New York Supreme Court in place of Barnard. BJfiy Forrester left New York city on the 26th for Joliet, 111., in charge of Warden Edwards, of the Joliet Prison, and two of

Pinkerton’s detectives. The Republican candidates for Congress ifr Minnesota are: 1. Mark .H. Dunnel; 2. H. B. Straight, and 3, John T. Averill, representing the districts in the order given. The DZnocratic candidates arc Mortimer 8. Wil“kinson, Christopher Graham, and George L. Becker. The Democrats and Liberals of the Second Missouri District have nominated Erastus Wells for re-election toCofigrcss. The Straight Democrats of lowa held , a State. Convention at Des Moines oyutfie 25tli, and nominated the following State ticket : Secretary of State, E. 8. Panin, of Johnson,; Aiplltor, J. P. Cassidy; Treasurer, ID. B. Beers; 'Attorney General, A. G. Case; Re-

gister of the Land Office, David Sherwood; Electors-at-Largc, Thomas M. Monroe, of Dubuque, and Barlow Granger, of Polk. The Citizens, Committee bt Twenty-five ih Chicago have issued an address relative to the fearful prevalence of crime in the city, in which they say it is the unanimous opinion of the Committee that there are too many drinking saloons in Chicago. “Drunkenness should be punished, as fraught with danger .to the good order of society and the lives of our citizens. The prompt arrest of all drunken men ip the streets or in drinking places in Chicago will soon-improve the condition of things wonderfully.” At the mass meeting of citizens held on the evening of the 26th, whisky was declared to be mainly -responsible for the many crimes recently committed in Chicago. The third day (26th) of the Wisconsin State Fair at Milwaukee was attended by about 10,000 people. At a business meeting, W. R. Taylor, was elected President, and V£m. Field, Secretary, for the coming year. A Cleveland dispatch of the 26th says there were five lives lost at the eonflagration at Newburg, Ohio. Several others were seriously injured. Several of the asylum patients , were at large. The loss is now stated at from $475,000 to $500,000. The two extreme wings of the building, the walls of which are in good condition, will be rebuilt at once, and will accommodate 250 patients. It is stated that General Spinner has recently decided that when a mutilated note has five-eighths left it shall be redeemable at its full value. The Cominlssioner of Internal Revenue has decided that certificates of naturalization issued by the United States or State courts are not such certificates as require stamps under the Internal Revenue laws, and are therefore exempt from stamp tax. The New York Sun of the 25th publishes an account of an affray at llunterdon, N. J., between 150 colored men, and over 300, whites, who were at work on a tunnel on the new railway from Perth Amboy to * the coal mines. During the riot a white man named Charles Cole was killed. The whites subsequently sought to revenge the death of Cole, and made an organized attack upon the negroes and butchered three of them in a most horrible manner.

The Pennsylvania Executive Committee of the Straight-out Democrats have called a State Convention, at Harrisburg, on the 16th of October, to select, an Electoral ticket. The Democrats and Liberals of the Twenfourth New York District have nominated Frank Hitchcock, a Liberal, for Congress. Hon. George F. Hoar has been renominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Ninth Massachusetts District. ' • A balloon which ascended at Plymouth; N. H., on the 26th, landed the next morning in Canada, near the Bay of St. Lawrence, having traveled 300 miles over the wilderness of Maine and Canada. The Straight-out Democracy of Wisconsin held a Convention in Milwaukee on the 26th, and decided to psR an Electoral ticket in the field. '. The Straight Democratic State Convention held at Jackson, Mich., on the 27th, nominated the following ticket: Governor, Colonel Wm. M. Ferry,. ofGrand Haven; Lieutepant-Governor, Hon.” Chas. Woodruff, of Ypsilanti; Secretary of State, Thos. C. Cutler, of Kalamazoo; Treasurer, Clement H. Davidson, of Detroit; Auditor-General, Hon. Cyrus Peabody,-of Oakland; Commissioner of Land Office, Hon. Asa D. Crouse, of Livingston; Attorney-General, Wm. A. Clark, of Saginaw; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Hon. Andrew J. Sawyer, of Monroe; Member of the State Board/of Education, Rev. C. Vanderveen, of Kent. William Irwin, eighty years old, residing two miles from Terre Haute, Ind., was cruelly murdered a few evenings ago, by his son-in-law, Andrew J. Miller. The weapon used was an ax. The trouble originated in ■the old maids reproving Miller for wantonly spilling a barrel of cider. During the absence from his home in Dixon, lowa, the other evening, of a wealthy old farmer named Lyman Alger, some men in disguise entered the house and murdered his wife, securing $l,lOO in greenbacks. E. K. Wilson has been nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the First Maryland District. - The Convention of Colored Liberal Republicans recently in session at Louisville, Ky., appointed the following National Executive Committee:

Alabama, Richard Mason; Arkansas, Tabbs Gross; Connecticut, James 11, Hansom ; California, Janies H.Hansbtn; - Delaware; Abel Jefferson; Florida, Dr. J. K. Kingston; Illinois. R. U. Finlay, J. Robinson: Indiana. Rev. J. M. Williams, G. W. Robinson, W r m. 11. Chambers; lowa. W’m. Yann, John Tucker; Kansas, Harper Francis; Kentucky, Albert Froman, A. Boyd, Dr C. Davis; Louisiana, Rev. J. Seller Martin; Minnesota, Wm. Williams; Missouri. Isaac*Turner; Mississippi, James Gooden; Nebraska. Henry Johnson: Nevarta, -=ssfTiewHampshire, William Hendricks; New Jersey. Col. ll.l’. Taytos; Ni'w York.S. R.Scottou, Dr. J. W. Gloucester, Rev. C. B. Ray and Harvey Mabeley; Ohio, ,). S. Williams and A. J.' Chambers; Oregon, Oscar S. Livingston; Pennsylvania, James M. McCabe; South Carolina, Harrison Summers: Tennessee, Julius A Strong; Texas, Wolford L. Hughes; Vermont, William Wilkinson; Virginia, J. 11. Harris; West Virginia, Dayid lit Greene; Wisconsin, Horace K. Wilson; North Carolina, Albert R. Williams; South Carolina, John Delavey. The Teritories—Colorado, James L. Hinson; Wyoming, OwenGoodson; New Mexico, Richard R. Lansing; Idaho, Horace Elinser; Utah, B. F. P. Richardson; Dakota, Wm. Henderson; Montana, Joseph Williams; Washington, James H. Castplay; Arizona, Henry T. Pike. President Grant and family returned to Washington on the 27th to remain through the winter. President received a great number of rails on the 28th, including all the Cabinet representatives in Washington. A delegation of Indians, representing the Vnepapas, Blackfeet and the Upper and Lower Yanetons, headed by J. Conner, Agent at the Grand River Agency, and Assistant Secretary Cowan, had an interview with the President during the day. A Washington dispatch of the 28th says the recent reports of threatened troubles in the Creek Nation are found to bit false. It is reported that the Post-Office Department has. recently received information that a large number of counterfeit postage stamps are in circulation. Hprace Greeley arrived in New York City on the afternoon of the 28th.'

General W. Harrow, of Mount Verhon, one of the Electors on the Greeley "and Brown ticket of Indiana, was on su+aitroad car which was upset by a~‘broken/rail on. the 3sfi, and he was thrown out and the car fell inflicting fatal Injuries of which he died in .a few hours. The Illinois'£t ate Baptist Association will I hold its next nnnnal.meeting in Jacksonville, beginning on Thursday, October 10. John- Barclay,'convicted at Columbus, Ohio, of the murder of Charles Garner, has confessedhis guilt. '—v The Nevada Republican StateJConvintion has nominated C. C. Goodwin for Congress;

Thomas Hawley for Supreme Judge; A. O. Putnam for State Printer; and J. 11. Mills, J, W. Haynes and A. J. Batch for Presidential Electors. The following is a list of the Republican and Democratic and Liberal nominations for Congress in Illinois: Diet. Dem. and Liberal. Republican. 1. Lucius B. Otis, John B. Rice, 2. Carter H. Harrison, Jasper D. Ward, 3. John V. LeMoyne, Charles B. Farwell,* 4. Seymour G. Bronson, Stephen A. Hurlbut, 5. James Dinsmoor, Horatio C. Burchard,* ft Calvin Truesdale, John B. Hawley, 7. Gavion I). A. Parks, Franklin Corwin, 8. George O. Barnes, Greenbury L. Fort,. GrajrriHe Barrere, 10. William H. Neece, William H. Ray, 11. Robert M. Knapp, Asa C. Matthews, 12. James C. Robinson, M H. Chamberlain, 13. Clifton H. Moore, John McNulta, 14. William E. Nelson, Joseph G. Cannon, 15. John R. Eden, t George Hunt, 16. Silas L. Bryan. James S. Martin, 17. Wm. R. Morrison, t John.B. Hay, * 18. George W. Wall. Isaac Clements, IST Samuel S. Marshall, * Green B. Ranm. ’t ♦Present members; tex-members. Cincinnati is arranging for a musical festival to come off at the Exposition building in May, 1873. Theo. Thomas will direct the musical performance with an orchestra of two hundred performers. The, Chicago Journal of the 28th says the corn crop of this country the present year will be the largest and best ever gathered. Grain men estimate the grand total at a billion and a half of bushels.

The Acting Secretary of the Treasury has directed the Assistant Treasurer at New TorETo purchase one million of bonds wch Wednesday, and to sell one million of gold each Thursday during the month of October. The Collectors of Customs at the principal ports have been directed by the Treasury Department to suspend the importation of neat cattle and hides coming from the infected districts of Europe, unless accompa nied by a Consular certificate showing that they are free from disease. A Committee of the Colored Men’s Convention” In New England, which met at Faneuil Hall, Boston, on the sth of September, called on the President on the 30th ult., and presented a letter from their Convention. The President, in his reply, thanked the Committee for the kind manner in which they had allddCdto his action in regard to their race. A Washington telegram announces that, the stamp duty upon all documents, except bank checks, drafts, or orders, expired on the 30th ult., in accordance with? the recent act of Congress. Thereafter no stamps are required on any legal documents whatever, no paper being subject to duty except bank checks, drafts or orders as above mentioned. No stamps are required on foreign bills of exchange. In accordance with a resolution of the Oil Producers’ Association, three-fourths of the oil wells in the Titusville district suspended pumping on the 28th ult., the suspension to last for thirty days. Much excitement was caused throughout the oil regions by this movement. The Steuben Monument was unveiled at Steuben, N. Y., on the 30th ult., in the presence of 1,000 people. - -- - : - The Republicans of the Third Massachusetts District have nominated William Whiting for Congress. A San Francisco dispatch of the 30th ult; states that that community had been thrown into a State of indignation that it was impossible to describe by the jury in the case pf Mrs. Laura D. Fair, bringing in a verdict of “not guilty.” M. C. Mitchell, Republican, has been elected United States Senator by the Oregon Legislature. According to the Sunday Times pf a recent date, the number of permanent buildings erected in the burnt district of Chicagd since the great fire is 637, and the aggregate value is estimated at $40,000,000.

The following is the public debt statement October 1: > ‘ Six per cent, bonds ... $1,357,013,000 Five per cent, bonds 414,567,300 Total coin b0nd5.'.51,771,580,300 Lawful money debt 2L2*>3,000 Matured debt 5,486,510 Legal-tender notes.... 356,086.15' Certificates of deposit 15,630,000 Fractional currency'.. 40.480,437 Coin certificates 25,7112.760 Interest 33,221,901 Total debt52,'269.M1,090 Cash In TreasuryCoin „... . $78,417,2'20 Currencyß,499,l93 Special deposit held for redemption of certificates of deposit as pro- " vided by 1aw.............. 15,630,000 Total in Treasury..... $102,516,413 Debt, less cash in Treasury.., $2,166,991,677 Decrease during the month 10,327,343 Bonds Issued to the Pacific Railway Company, Interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding... 64.623.512 Interest accrued and not yet paid 969,352 Interest paid by United States. 16,570,575 Interest repaid by transportation of mails, etc. 3,820,028 Balance of interest paid by the United States ~.. ..... ~*12,742.547 The Secretary of the Treasury has ordered the calling in of $1,000,000 3 per ceuts., ritini bered as follows; $5,000 numbered from 4,310 to 4,591; SIO,OOO, numbered from 4,720 to 4,775, interest on which will cease November 30, 1872. The official canvass of the State of Vermont shows the vote for Governor as follows: Converse, Republican, 41,946; Gardner, 16,613; scattering, 14. Majority of Converse, 25,319. The Democrats of New York City have nominated J6hn McCool for Mayor. At a recent meeting of the Municipal Reform organization, Wm. F. Havemeyer was nominated for Mayor.

A Boston special telegram to the New York Tribune of the Ist says that a lettter had been received from Senator Sumner, declining the candidacy'for Governor. The Republicans of the newly constructed Seventh Massachusetts District have nominated E. R. Hoar for Congress. C. C. Estey is the Republican candidate for the unexplred term of Mr. Brooks. A few nights ago, seven masked men entered the reridence of Samuel Pope, in Paterson, N. J., and pointed pistols at Pope’s head,-while the wife was securely tied. The thieves then rifled the hoiise, carrying off $1,600 in money, Jewelry and silver-ware, and $7,500 An railroad bonds.

The Republicans of the Seventh, Congressional District of New Jersey have nominated Isaac 11. Scudder for Congress.-r-Wni. ~SV. Warden in the Eighth Massachusetts, and W. Kountz in the Twenty-third Pennsylvania Districts are the Democratic and Liberal Republican candidates for Congress. It is said that, with one or two unimportant exceptions, the press of California are unanimous in denoupflieg'ftie verdict In the Fair case as a mockery of justice. The worknlen.in clearing away the debris of the burned asylum at Newburgh, Q., on the

30th ult., found the bodies of Miss Walker, Benjamin Burgess and of an iron puddler who had been missing since the fire. Two other persons were still missing. Several wards in the wings of the building that were the least injured, hfid been put in order, and a hundred or more patients had been placed in them. The residence of Edward Thompson, in Carrollton, La., was burned on the Ist, and Mrs. Edward Thompson, aged 83, who was unable to escape, was burned to death., Horace Greeley will attend the North Carolina State Fair at Goldsboro on the 23d of October. j The Arkansas Liberal Republican State Central Committee have put in the fields new State ticket, composed of four .Liberals and seven Democrats, as follows : Governor, And rewHunter; Lieukmant-Govw-nor, J. C. Tappen; Secretary of State, M. Johnson, Liberal; Auditor, W. R. Milton; Treasurer, Thomas Boles, Liberal; AttorneyGeneral, W. Compton; Supreme Judges, J. J. Clendeline, J. N. Walker; Superintendent of Education, L. D. Joyner; Superintendent of the Penitentiary, R. J. Jennings, Liberal ; Congressman-at-Large, J. M. Powers, Liberal. A Washington special to the New York Evening Post of the 2d, says the report Was •<t>t believed in official circles that the Japanese Government had again reverted back into its former state of exclusiveness and dismissed General Capron and other Americans from the positions to' which they were called. Our Government would have been notified of the fact if true. Two women named Reutln, have been arrested and held to bail in Brooklyn, N. Y., for manufacturing and passing counterfeit money. -=■- • ' The Vermont General Assembly began Its session omthe2cL . The Senate organized by electing L. tt. Hinckley, President pro tern. In “the House, Colonel Franklin Fairbanks was chosen Speaker. The Republicans have renominated for .Congress Benjamin T. Evans in the Eastern and James M. Pendleton ip the Western Rhode Island Districts. Amos Clark, Jr., has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans of- the Third New Jersey District. -r-The Straight-out Democratic State Convention of Ohio, met at Columbus on the 2d. As but few counties of the State were represented, it was deemed advisable to delay the nomination o’s electors, and General Joseph H. Geiger was appointed a Special Committee to call a Convention for that purpose, to meet October 11.

At the recent session in Chicago of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Illinois the following officers were elected: James A. Hawley, of Dixon,- Most Worshipful Grand Master; G. E. Lounsbury, of Mound City, Deputy Grand Master; Joseph Robbins; of Quincy, Senior Grand Warden; W. J. A. Delancey, of Centralia, Junior Grand Warden; Harrison Dills, of Quincy, Grand Treasurer; O. H. Miner, of Springfield, Grand Secretary. The Grand Council of Masons, of Ohio, at their recent session in Columbus, chose the following officers: Companion Joseph Conrad, of Atwater, Puissant Grand Master; Peter L. Wilson, of Georgetown, Deputy Grand Master; H. Theobald, of Dayton, Illustrious Grand Master; John Benjamin, of Painesville, Grand P. C. work; Flavius J. Phillips, of ? Georgetown, Grand Treasurer; Geo. Treadwell, Cincinnati, Grand Recorder; Orestes A. B. Senter, of Columbus, Grand Captain of the Guard; Jacob { Randall, of Waynesville, Grand Sentinel. , A Wilmington (Del.) dispatch of the 2d says complete returns from all parts of the State of elections the day before for Assessors and other local officers, give a Democratic majority of 82, being a Republican gain on the vote of two years ago for similar officers. The election In Georgia on the 2d resulted iu the success of the Democratic State* ticket. —An Atlanta dispatch on the evening of the election says: “Returns from twenty counties give Smith, the Democratic nominee for Governor, 10,000 majority. If the same proportion holds in the counties to be heard from, Smith’s majority will be over 40,000.” A Macon dispatch says a serious fight occurred at the polls in that city, between white and colored voters. The disturbance “commenced with fisticuff fights, and developed into a fierce encounter with brickbats and pistols. In the course of a few seconds about fifty shots were fired, by which one whits man was killed and five or slxaegroes wounded, two of whom have since died. The affray lasted but a few minutes, when the negroes left the polls. The whites claim that the whole affair was premeditated on the part of the negroes; that it was their intention to take forcible possession of the polls, and they orginated a disturbance with this object. The negroes, however, claim that they were driven from the polls by violence, and could get no chance to vote. They were addressed by the Mayor, later in the day, who guaranteed |them protection; but, with few exceptions, they refused to vote, and went to their homes.”

Colfax not only disposes vefy conclusively of the Credit Mobilier slander, but he places Messrs. Horace White, Sameßowles and Horace Greeley in the unpleasant predicament of being obliged to confess that they aided and abetted, six years ago, in accomplishing a . monstrous fraud upon the nation, or that they have been recently engaged in rearing what they very well knew to be an edifice of slanderous falsehood. If there is a shadow of doubt upon any honest mind that the Oakes Ames business has been a pure invention from first to last, Mr. Colfax’s clear and - crushing reply to the U bored misrepresentations which have been circulated, on the subject cannot fail to dissipate it; and now observe the way In which the Chicago and New York Tribunes and the Springfield .Republican will wriggle out of the dilemma in which Mr. Colfax has placed them.—Nino York Timet.

lengthy address to the Democracy of the United States has been issued by the ©ommittee of the Louisville Convention. It explains the object of the assemblage of that body, opposes the Baltimore platform as undemocratic, contends that the masses of the Democracy did not demand the nomination of Greeley and the adoption of his platform, and says the watehward is not “ Anything to beat Grant,” but “Anything to prevent Greeley frotn beating and destroy* ing the Democratic party.” Grant's election, it sava, would be loss a calamity than that of Greeley, and if the former is chosen, the responsibility rests on the Baltimore Convention, which refused the people either a Democratic nominee or platform. The address concludes by Invoking all Democrats to vote for O’Conor and Adams,