Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1872 — THE NEW WORLD. [ARTICLE]

THE NEW WORLD.

Gold closed in New York on the 9th at 112,V.

Rev. Benj. R. Hoyt, oldest ordained minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church in New England, died on the 3d, at his residence in Salem, Mass. Democratic and Liberal nominations for Congress were made on the 3d as follows: Eleventh New York District, Clarkson N. Potter; Fifth Massachusetts, N. P. Banks; Ninth Massachusetts, George E. Verry. The New York Straight-out -Democratic State Convention met at Albany on the 3d, and nominated a full Electoral ticket, and adopted resolutions in support of O’Conor and Adams, and the Louisville platform. A motion for the nomination of a ticket for State officers was rejected by 12 to 15. A San Francisco dispatch of September 30 in a New York paper thus announces the close of the trial of Mrs. Fair r“ After being out nearly sixty hours, the jury In Mrs. Fair’s case rendered a verdict at nine o’clock this morning of acquittal. Mrs. Fair, who was in court, fainted on the announcement. The verdict excites no surprise, on account of the inferior character of the jury, th members of which were selected under the technicalities of the law from; among men so ignorant as not to know enough about this notorious case to have formed any opinion favorable or unfavorable to the prisoner. The money-order system between Chicago anff Germahv went into effect on ttre-lst. The tariff of charges is as follows: On orders not exceeding $5, fifteen cents; over $5 and not exceeding HO, twenty-five cents; over $lO and npt exceeding S2O, fifty cents; over s2dand notexceeding S3O, seventy-five cents: over S3O and not exceeding S4O, one dollar; over S4O and not exceeding SSO, one dollar and twe.nty-five cents. No single order to be Issued for more than SSO, but enough orders may be issued to make up any desired amount. By an agreement between the two governments, the thaler of Germany will be considered as equivalent to 75 cents in United States coin of gold value. The Republicans of the Thirteenth Missouri Congressional District have unanimously nominated John F. Benjamin for Congress. Three passenger coaches on the mall train going west on the East Tennessee, Virginia A Georgia Railroad, fell through a trestle three miles west of Greenville, Tenn., on the morning of (the 2d. One brakeman was killed, seven passengers seriously and twenty slightly Injured. An accident occurred on fthe North & South Railroad, near Cunningham, Alabama, on the Ist. The north-bound passenger train was precipitated down an embankment forty feet high, some of the cars turning over several times. The sleeping-coach fell on the first-class car, crushing it and killing L. C. McLemarc, of -Perry County, Ala., and Jaijies M. Smith, of St. Louis. Several passengefs’wcrc seriously injured. Fifty suits began in New York State I courts'to test the constitutionality of the , Income tax, have been removed to the ■ United States are to be made test leases. A.■ ( ■ ' i John Barclay was' hanged at Columbus, ' Ohio, on theAth, for the murder of Charles ! F. Gardner, last October. Barclay, when on the scaffold, declared that he was guilty of the horrible crlm6"'of murder, and was prepared to die. HeadflM fflKo beware of

Intoxicating liquors, and said that they had placed him on a murderer’s scaffold. On the 4th, the Journeymen bricklayers of Chicago struck against a proposed reduction of their wages from 85 to J 4.50 a day. They asked 85 for ten hours’ work, but were willing to work eight hours for $4. Over 40,000 people visited the Indiana State Fair at Indianapolis on the 3d. The Fair is pronounced a great success. A letter was recently received at the Treasury Department in Washington frota»New.port, ky L , cont;iinin£ $225, “ conscience money.” r . The United States and British Commission had a long session in Washington on the sth, and closed proofs in a large number of claims, and extended the time for taking testimony in others. Several cases were disallowed. The Commission adjourned till October 38. A livery-stable keeper of Chelsea, Mass., while recently riding with his wife, and wearing a coat which had been hanging in his stable, remarked to her that he had been bitten by something, and on reaching home the author of the mischief was discovered to be a poisonous-fanged spider which had crept into his coat. The wound commenced to swell in spite of medical aid, and resulted fatally. The court-house in Kankakee, 111., was burned on the sth. The books and papers were saved. Loss,'sso,ooo; insured for $30,000. The Cincinnati Exposition closed on the sth. The entire proceeds amount to SIOO,000. A recent Washington dispqtch says the State Department had advices from the jforthwestern Boundary Commission which state that little progress had been made in locating the thirty-ninth parallel. The expedition would soon return to- the- United States for winter quarter*

It is said to be anticipatedin official circles at Washington that the award made by the Geneva Tribunal will be paid before the expiration of the twelve months’ time from the time of its announcement, this being the treaty limit. The money will be paid to the Department of State, and as there is no law concerning the disposal of it, legislation by Congress becomes necessary for that purpose. A recent Washington special says the death of Dr. Francis Lieber adds to the complications already existing in the Mexican Claims Commission. He acted as umpire since it began its labors in 1869. A Washington dispatch .of the 6th says: “The stringency in the money market, caused by ring operations in New York, has directed attention to the power of the Treasury Department to alleviate the pressure., by increasing the greenback circulation. It is held that the S'ecretaryhas authority, under the laws, to increase the amount of currency to $400,000,000, the outstanding greenbacks at present representing only $356,000,000.” The festivities and celebration of the twenty-tilth anniversary of Henry Ward Beecher’s connection with Plymouth Church commenced on the 7th. The corner stone of the monument to be erected on Captain’s Hill, Duxbury, Mass., to the memory of Miles Statidish, Was laid on the 7th, with Masonic, military and civie honors. ■ .i ~ '' ' ■ -■. . The reading-room of Cooper Institute, New York, was, on Sunday, the 6th, thrown open to the public for the first time, and was visited by nearly 400 persons. The suits against Tweed and others were argued on the 7th, before Judge-Barrett. Henry Campbell has been sentenced by a New York Court to one year’s service at Auburn for mailing improper publications. The Connecticut election for town officers was held on the 7th. In forty-two towns heard from on the morning of the Bth, the Republicans had gained three offices in four towns that were Democratic last year, and the Democrats had gained in six towns which were Republican last year. In Hartford the Republican Town Clerk was elected by 231 majority over the present Democratic incumbent. The Republicans have a ma jority in the Board of- Selectmen. In New Haven, Henry M. Lewis, reguter-Demociatic and citizens’ candidate for Mayor,twas elect---ed-by a plurality of 158. The Liberal Republicans and Democrats have nominated D. M.’ Dewett for Congress from the Fourteenth New York District. A large party of San Franciscans have recently returned from an unsuccessful expedition to the Arizona diamond fields. They denounce the excitement as a fraud. The Republicans of the First, Second, and Third Missouri Congressional Districts have made the following nominations: In the First, Ex-Lieutenant GovernorE. O. Stanard; Second, Col. M. A. Bryson; Third, Monethon Hilton.

A riot Cincinnati on the night of the sth, about ten o’clock, on the comer of Fifth and Broadway streets, between the Fourth Ward Greeley torthlight procession and colored people in which .60 to 75 shots were fired. Several persons were wounded. Accounts of the affair by eye witnesses are very conflicting. The Kentucky State Central Committee of the O’Conor Democrats have selected a full Electoral ticket,, headed by Hon. John T, Bunch for the State-at-Large. An Atlanta (Ga.) dispatch of the 7th says one hundred and eleven counties had been heard from. Seven of them had given Republican majorities, and 103 counties gave a Democratic majority of 50,522. The twen-ty-six counties to be heard from would not change the Democratic majority to any great extent. A Savannah dispatch of the same date says two negroes .had made affidavits that Republicans were prevented from voting at the late election, and warrants had been issued for the-arrest of one magistrateand one freeholder under the Enforcement act. • ' ■ At Toronto, Canada, where a disease prevails among horses, there was recently said to be scarcely a horSe fit for work, and merchants were unable to ship or get goods frourdepots. There were no hacks on the stands. According to Washington dispatch of the evening of the Sth, General N. P. Chipman, (Republican, and present delegate in Congress, had been re-elected- by, 5,600 majority. The Republicans also elected 19'ohtof 22 delegates to the Legislative Assembly. The election In Pennsylvania on the Bth passed off without any serious disturbance. Hartranftf Republican lhad a majority of about 20.000 in Philadelphia, and the news on the tnorning of the Oth indicated that he would have a majority of from B,ooo'to 10,000 in the balance of the State. -The Republicans claimed his election by 80,000 majority. Chdrie* John (Republican) has been re-

nominated for Congress in the Eleventh New York District. The Democrats and Liberals of the Second Massachusetts District have nominated Edward Avery lor Congress. The Rhode Island State and District Conventions of the Democratic and Liberal Republican parties, held at Providence o® the Bth, united on nominations for Electors and Congressmen. - An Omaha, Nebraska, dispatch of the evening of the Bth says the election in that State passed off quietly, with a full vote poked. TLe Republican State and Congressional ticket is reported elected by about 5,000 majority. The news from the Indiana State election so far as received up to the morning of the 9th- was very incomplete. Both parties claimed the State. ]- < ■ A Columbus (Ohio) telegram of the evening of the Bth says: “Partial returns from half the counties in the State (Ohio) show a Republican gain of 3,000 ovipr the vote of Noyes in 1871, when the Republican majority reached 20,000. This’- will be reduced by Democratic gains in Hamilton and Cuyahoga Counties, leaving the! Republican majority not less than-15,000 in -the State.” Congressmen were elected in Ohio on the Bth as follows: ‘ Republican—Third District, John Q. Smith; Fourth District, L. B. Gunckel; Sixth District, Isaac R. Sherwood; Eighth District, William Lawrence; Ninth District, James W. Robinson; Tenth District, Charles Foster; Eleventh District, H. 8. Bundy; Fifteenth District, W. P. Sprague; Sixteenth District, L. Danford; Seventeenth District, L. D. Woodworth; Eighteenth District, ,Jgmes Monroe; Nineteenth District, J. A. Gartreld; Twentieth District, R. C. Parsons. Democratic—First District, Milton Sayler; Second District, H. B. Banning; Fifth. District, J. C. Lamison; Seventh District, J. T. Neal; Twelfth District; Hugh J. Jewett; Thirteenth District, M. J. Southard; Fourteenth District, John Berry. A Grant and Wilson meeting in Brooklyn, N. Y., on the evening of the 7th, was brought to an unexpected and tragic termination by the giving way of the platform, which, failing upon several boys who happened to be underneath it, crushed the life out of two of them, Alonzo Henry and James Milwater, and Inflicted Injuries which would probably prove fatal upon three others. •

According to a Philadelphia dispatch of the 9th, Hartranft’s majority in Philadelphia was about 16,000, and in the State from 15,000 to 25,000. The Congressional delegation would probably embrace eighteen Republicans and nine Democrats. The village of Farmington, Mich., was almost entirely consumed by fire cm the morningrnf the 9th. Several stores wjere destroyed, as was also the post-office, before the fiames were stayed. The Chicago papers of the 9tk, the anninersary of the great fire, are filled with statistics showing the wonderful enterprise and activity displayed in the rebuilding of the city. The new Chamber of Commerce was 'formally opened on the 9th. It atopears that the amount invested in new and Magnificent permanent structures in the burnt district since the fire is about $46,000,000. -An Indianapolis (Ind.) dispatch of the evening of the 9th says the resnlt on the State ticket, was still in doubt, with the chances in favor of Hendricks. The Republicans had gained two Congressmen, and probably lost one. The following were probably elected: Democratic —First District, Niblack; Second, Wolf; Third, Holman; , Ninth, Neff. Republican—Fourth, Wilson; Fifth, Coburn; Sixth, Hunter; Seventh, Carson; Eighth Tyner; Tenth, Saylor; Eleventh, Packard. The Republicans would probably have a majority of fifteen on joint ballot in the Legislature. The Democratic majorities in Hamilton County, Ohio, range from about 5,500 to 9,000. The State Republican Committee on the 9th, claimed a majority in the State of from 15,000 to 18,000. The Democrats conceded from 10,000 to 15,000. A freight locomotive on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, near Piedmont, Va., exploded on the sth, killing the engineer, fireman, and two others, and fatally injuring another. A Shreveport (La.) dispatch of the 7tb sajs: R. J. Wright, Clerk of the District Court, and his brother, W. N. Wright, foeputy Sheriff, were killed the day before by Chief of Police Sherrard and Police Officer Shepherd. Friends of the Wrights armed themselves with shot-guns, and found and killed Shepherd, and were Searching in-every direction for Sherrard.