Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1872 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

THE OLD WORLD. The Postal Treaty between France and the United States, reducing the rates of postage nearly one half, has been approved by the State Departments of the two countries. It has been submitted, to the French Minister of Finance, who will consider the pecuniary features of the treaty, and from whom a favorable report is expected. A Paris Communist, who has surrendered to the authorities in Brussels, confesses himself to have been 1 an accomplice of Tntuppman, who murdered an entire family near PariS, ——;— : In a railroad accident near Chelmsford, England, on the 17th, ten passenger cars went over an embankment, and were badly wrecked. Only one passenger, a lady, was killed outright. Twenty-three were injured two or three of whom might die. A Madrid dispatch of the J7th states that the revolt at Fcrral had been suppressed by the Spanish forces without firing Vehot. The insurgents perceiving the utter indefensibility of their position, all of them except about four hundred dispersed in the might. Those remaining within the walls were made prisoners. A party of tourists recently ascended Mount Vesuvius, when Messrs!"James Wilcox and Francie Lemieur, an American and ,a Frenchman, insisted on being lowered * down to a cavern which is formed below the mouth of the volcano. The guides complied with the request, and lowered them with ropes. After they had been down some time, and making no response to repeated c ills to them, a gnide was lowered down to ascertain what had become of the adventurers. He discovered that there was nothing hut a very narrow rock at the mouth of the cavern, and, as far as any living person can tell, the unfortunate strangers had been hurled into the abysses of Mount Vesuvius. Sir Roundel! Palmer (England) received $30,000 for his services before the Geneva Tribunal. The Spanish Cortes has voted in favor of considering a resolution providing for the abolition of capital punishment for political offenses. The King and Queen of Spain visited tho American fleet at Lisbon, on the 19th, and lunched on board the flagship. The next day Admiral Alden and the Captain of the squadron dined at the palace, and were most cordially entertained by the King and members of the royal family.

Senator Sumner visited Gambetta on the ,18th. lie expressed tho warmest sympathy for the French Republic. Gambetta was deeply impressed by the interview. The gallery of a circus at Sheffield, England, gaVe way on the night of the 21st, while filled with spectators, and was precipitated on the heads of those below. It is reported that seventy "persons were injured by the accident and in the panic which ensued. The Rev. Jean Henri Merle d’Aubigne, the celebrated historian of the Reformation, died suddenly at Geneva, Switzerland, on the 21st, in the seventy-third year of his age. The Royal Geographical Society in London gave ajbanquot to Stanley, on the night of the 21st. Many of the nobility, and a number of American gentlemen, were present. Among the latter were Moran, United States Charge d' Affaires, and “Mark Twain,” the humorist. Moran replied to a toast in honor of the President of the United States. A large meeting in favor of amnesty to the Fenian prisoners was held in Manchester, England, on the evening of the 22d, at which Isaac Butt, M. Ff, leader of the Irish homo rule party, was the principal speaker, Mr. Butt, in the course of his remarks, said that Ireland never could welcome Gladstone to her soil unless amnesty to her sons was made complete. He also spoke in terms of vigorous cepsure of the treatment accorded to prisoners, who, he alleged, hayc suffered during" theft confinement gross-cruelties at the hauds of theft jailors.

THE NEW WORLI). Gold dosed in New York on the 23d at 113’a@113%. By his last will Mr. Seward bequeaths his late home at Auburn, with all its contents and surroundings, to his three sons. His other property, consisting in part of securities, but mainly of real estate in Auburn and vicinity, he divides Into four equal shares among his sons Augustus, Frederick, and William, and his adopted daughter, Olive Blsley Seward, the two last named being deputed to execute this provision of the lnstrm. -tit. No other legacies or bequests are raa- . The total value of the property is estim..ted at about $200,000. The Republicans of Brooklyn, N. Y., have nominated A. J. Perr for Congress from the Second District; General Stewart L. Woodford in the Third, and General Phillips Crooke in the Fourth. General J. R. Hawley has been unanimously nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the First Connecticut District. Henry L. Dawes has been unanimously renominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Eleventh Massachusetts District. The name of J. B. Weaver,-Republican candidate for Elector in the Sixth District of lowa, has been withdrawn on account of ineligibility, and that of George W. Tocum substituted;. E. J. Galloway has been nominated for reelection to Congress by the Democrats of the Nashville (Tenn.) District. A Columbia (S. C.) dispatch of the 17th says: “The Moses State ticket is undonbtedly elected. Ransier, Elliott, and Rainey, Col ored Republicans, and B. F. Perry, Democrat, arejrelected to Congress. The bolters polled a strong vote. The Democrats have elected teveral Representatives to the Legislature." A Toronto (Canada) dispatch of the 18th says the epidemic among horses had extended throughout the Dominion, seriously interrupting the business of the country. Th,e street-cars in Montreal had stopped Tbiiningr in theli- Mauler more ilndrriSGOhorses were sick. Farmers were unable to bring grain to market. The disease is very seldom fatal, but recovery is slow. The President has appointed ex-Governor Lucius Fairchild, of Wisconsin, Consul to Liverpool, gtes Thomas A. Dudley, resigned. Henry G. Btruve, of; Washington Territory, Secretary of that Territory; Wm. Pound, United States Attorney of Dakota; Addrew S. Corry, Postmaster at Petersburg, 111, A Harrisburg dispatch says the Straight Democrats of Pennsylvania met on the 18th, and adjourned- on the recommendation of the State Executive Committee, that there wa» no necessity for the nomination of an Electoral ticket.

Four inches of snow iell in Eastern Maine, n the 17th. The Democrats and Liberals of Massachusetts have substituted F. W. Bird in place of Charles Sumner as a candidate for Governor ; William L. Smith, for LieutenantGovernor, in place of M. Stems, and Joseph G. Abbott, Elector, in place of Mr. Bird. A few nights ago the stage-coach was stopped three miles north of Pleasant Valley, Montana, by two road agents, and $7,000 was taken from the passengers. There was no express treasure on board. According to a Milwaukee dispatch of the 17th, the number of lives lost by the sinking of the Lac la Belle was eight—W. Freeman, N. U. Gilbert, P. WyeHetyß: "R. YJppincott, W. Smith Dunning, Henry Sparks, Henry Adams, second cook, and a man unknown, who was werking his passage. Willie, youngest son of Jefferson Davis, died at Memphis, on the 16th. A special from Havana oh the 19th says that Boyd Henderson, of Philadelphia, had been arrested in that place on suspicion of being an accomplice of suspected sympathizers with Cuban insurgents. It is reported that he is a Cuban by birth, but he claims to be a native of the United States, traveling for his own and his wife’s health.

The horse disease raging in Canada has been Communicated to horses in New York City #y a lot of horses recently imported from Montreal. It was also reported on the 19th that the same epidemic was prevailing to an alarming extent among the horses of Buffalo. A New York dispatch of the 19th says it was reported that a new indictment had been found against Ingersoll, the famous chairmaker of the Ring. Mayor Hall stated that he had heard nothing of any new indictment against him, and the report that he had given bail was therefore false. At Ogden, Utah, on the 18th, Neilson and Purdy, two hoys, were found guilty of manslaughter in the second degree, for the murder of a little girl in Hooper City, last summer, and sentenced to the penitentiary for twenty years each. Charges have been recently made of fraud in the letting of bids for the Marine hospital in Chicago. It is alleged that the bids for stone were opened privately, and finding that, the lowest bid was SIO,OOO below the next lowest, the bidder presenting the former was advised to raise his bid $9,500, which was done, and the award was made accordingly, the $9,500 being divided among the parties to the fraud. A Washington dispatch of the 19th says the matter was to be brought to the notice of the Grand Jury. J. K. Townsend and Houston F. Florence, two youugmen of Atlanta, Ga., sought r a duel a few mornings ago with double-bar-reled guns, charged with buck-shot, at a distance of forty paces. Townsend was Seriously wounded at the first fire. Both belong to most respectable families.

A son of Charles NicKoTs, of Nashville, Tenn., was accidentally burned to death on the 19th. After taking him out of bed, his mother left him seated in a chair in his night-clothes, and a few moments after was called tjO him by his cries. He had got out of his chair, and, going near the fire, his clothes caught.' ' A special from Havana on the 20th, says that Henderson; • the American arrested by ftie Cuban authorities on suspicion of being In league with the insurgents, had been released by orderof the Captain General; ~ The President has appointed The following Postmasters: Benjamin C. Bheeps, Oregon, 111., vice John Sharp, resigned; C. H. Mclntyre, Yankton, Dakota, vice Wm. Pound, resigned. The Secretary of State has been authorized by the President to affix the seal of the United States to the postal treaty between this country and Switzerland. President Grant and family were in New York City on the 20th for the purpose of meeting Miss Nellie Grant oh her return from Europe. The Philadelphia Board of Trade has .passed a resolution deprecating any such expansion of the currency ias that proposed in the re-issue of $44,000,000 legal tenders, and in favor of every suitable means for resumption of specie payment. ' In New York City, on the 19th, George A. Heinrich, a prominent Democrat of the Eleventh Ward, was arrested upon the accusation of a special Deputy Marshal, for alleged interference with the latter’s duties as a canvasser for election. Bail was refused) and he was incarcerated in Ludlow Street Jail until the morning of the 21st, when he was admitted to bail in the sum of $5,000. This case excited a great deal of interest, inasmuch as it involves principles arising under the new election law for that city. It has recently been announced that the horse disease was prevailing at Rochester, N. Y., to an alarming extent. .—yiA New York dispatch of the 21st states that the wife of Horace'Gtreeley was lying at the point of death, and could survive but a few days. . )rj— The Cambria Iron Company’s rolling-mills at Johnstown, Pa., resumed making rails on the 21st, one week after their destruction by fire,.

The Sunday liquor law was enforced in Ohicago on the 20th, but few saloons being open open on that day. The" Tesult was a comparatively quiet Sunday, and few arrests for drunkenness and crime. Much excitement has been caused, especially among the Germans, by this action of the city authorities in thus Beeking to do away with the liquor traffic on the Sabbath. Threats are "made by some that the enforcement of the law will be resisted-. The acting comptroller of Currency has authorized the Deseret National Bank, of Salt Lake City, Brigham Young President, to commence business under the National Banking act, with a capital of $200,000. Late advices from Idaho represent that a general outburst of the Indian was simminent. Recently large numbers of stock have been driven off, and the ranchers shot at. A public meeting of the citizens of Chi--eago;-TCccTrHrbcW, decided not to -co-»per—-ate with the Pittsburgh merchants in asking Secretary Boutwell for a reissue of $44,000,000 legal tenders. Official returns from Ohio show the following Republican majorities for State officers : For Secretary of State, Allen Wykoff, 14,025 majority; Supreme Judge, Jno. .'Welch, 10,180 majority; Member of the Board of Public Works, Richard P. Porter, 16,455 majority; The total vote cast for Sectary of State was s3o,o37—the largest vote ever cast In. Ohio for any officer, „ Ah Indianapolis dispatch of the 21st says all the counties In Indiana were reported officially b«t Pike and Delaware. Hendricks’ majority was placed at'l,l4l.

The Prohibition ticket polled about 2,000 votes in Ohio. • Tho President pf the Illinois Minority Representation society has issued a circular and blank forms to the County Clerks, Judges of Elections, etc., in the State, requesting them, “as soon as may be after the election in November, to communicate to the Secretary of the Society, at Chicago, in writing, their opinions in relation to the practical working pf the provision for cumulative voting at elections of State Representatives, embraced in Sections 7 and 8, Article IV., of the Constitution of Illinois, together with such facts and statistics as may seem to them to hear upon that question.” Communications should be addressed to the Secretary, Sydney Myers, No. 75 Clark street, Chicago. An Omaha telegram of the 21st says prairie fires in that vicinity had been unusually destructive. The country for thirty miles west of the city had been mostly burned over, and enormous quantities of hay and grain had been destroyed, besides many houses, barns and fences. Forty horses were burned to death in Chicago a few nights ago, in a barn belonging to a West Side Omnibus Company, which was totally destroyed, together with several adjoining buildings. Hon. E. W. Beck has been nominated by the Democrats of the Fourth Georgia District to fill the unexpired term of the late Thomas J. Speer. A Washington dispatch of the 22d says the circumstances of the Cadet troubles at the National Armory at Annapolis, as reported to the Department, are, briefly, that Robert D. Diggs, of Maryland, Cadet Midshipman, met colored Cadet Midshipman Coßyers on the grounds of the Naval Academy, and after some words between them a fight ensned, Diggs getting the better of Conyers. The representation being that Diggs was in fault, an order had been issued by Acting Secretary of the Navy Cast dismissing Biggs from the Academy. In a talk, on the 22d, with the Indian delegation in Washington, Commissioner Walker stated that the Government had iceased to accept mere professions of friendship and good faith, and now requires evidence of theft henest purpose. Certain terms were dictated, which the representatives of the Indians promised to comply with.

A Washington special of the 22d says it was stated at the Treasury Department that the policy of Secretary Boutwell is not to issue one dollar of the $44,000,000 reserve, although it had been decided that he has a right to do so if he chooses. Leading New York bankers had entered their protest against disturbing the financial situation. Delegations announced to visit Washington from' Western cities, to urge a different policy, will be referred to Congress for relief. - William F. Havemeyerhas written a letter accepting the nomination for Mayor of New York by the Committee of Fifty, representing the different reform organizations of that city. The horse disease has appeared in the Brooklyn (N. Y.) City Railroad stables, and also in Boston. A Buffalo dißpatch of the 22d says tho disease in that city had become a public calamity. Many branches of busi'ncss had been entirely suspended, for want of animals to do ordinary transportation. The street railroads were running with half their usual force, and expected to stop in a day or two. The omnibus companies had entirely suspended business, all their homes being sick. The disease had broken out among the canal horses. At Rochester the disease was on the increase, and hardly, a horse was to be seen on the streets. Over three hundred cases had proved fatal in Buffalo and Rochester within twenty-four hours. The disease is of a catarrhal character, its first noticeable symptoms being the flowing of tears from the eyes, watery discharge from the nose, and general languor, followed by cough.

Miss Nellie Grant arrived at New Nork cm the 22d, from Europe. The official list of the Pennsylvania Legislature gives a Republican majority of 23 on joint ballot, viz.: Senate, 13 to 15; House, 60 to 40. Thomas Cullen, aged nineteen, has been found guilty of the recent murder in Chicago of James P. McWilliams, a printer employed in the Times office, andsentenced to imprisonment for life. Whisky had much to do with the crime. In his instructions to the jury the Judge specifically charged that the plea of drunkenness is of no effect in extenuation of crime. The importation, of horses from Canada has been forbidden at Detroit, Mich., on account of the prevalence of the horse disease, which isTeparted to have made its appearance in that city. Governor Baker has issued his proclamation convening the Indiana Legislature in extra session on Wednesday, November ,13. At Angola, Ind., on the night of the 20th, a man named O'Sullivan, hearing a noise, went to the front door, and was shot through the heart, killing him instantly. The occurrence was shrouded in mystery. Two parties, named respectively John Boyke and Jas. Ciingeraw, were arrested on suspicion. A full Electoral ticket for O’Conor and Adams has been put in the field in Ohio. Hiram 11. Harrison, United States District Attorney, has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Nashville (Tenn.) District. A. W.' Harris gives in the Montreal (Canada) Gazette of the 2ist, the following treatment for the horse distemper so prevalent in Canada and in the United tStates: “In the early stage of the disease give, the first two days, ten drops of tinctu/e of aconite in a little water every five hours, after which gtSeA paH of wster to drink, and occasionally gargle with the fallowing: Dissolve two ounces of saltpeter, one pint of water, or double the quantity; then wet flannel cloths with vinegar and turpentine, equal quantities, and pat close to the throat .on each side within two Inches of the butt of the eye; wet It in the course of every four or fiveTrouFs" XWccSSsTurFeYuTT wiirTolW if properly attended to; keep warm and fan soft and warm.” According to a Washington telegram o( the 23d there was in the Freedmea’s Savings Bank and its branches, principally from the Soufh, an aggregate of deposits of over $4,030,000. Reports as to the unsoundness of the institution are reported groundless. The Secretary of the Treasury has issued instructions to the collectors at Rochester, Burlington, Cape Tincent and Port Huron, to allow no horses to be brought into their districts from Canada unless they are perfectly satisfied that such horses are free from contagions disease. ■ ]

In his talk with the Indians of the 21st, Commissioner Walker told them that they must go, with all their bands and families, to Fort Sill, and remain there, not leaylng the reservation without consent of their agent, and must surrender all animals stolen. Indians not at the place named by the 15th of December, will be treated as enemies, and hunted down by the troops wherever found. The delegations promised obedience. Daring a political procession at Passaic, N. J., on the night of the 2lst, a tight o<* curred, in whiek sixty persons were more or less injured. The People’s Savings Bank of Syracuse, N. Y., has failed. A f ewtrtghts ago, the Coart—House at York, Pennsylvania, wag entered, and the Treasurer’s accounts for the past six years, the book of recordsof notes issued by the county, and the Auditor’s report, exposing gigantic frauds, ware stolen. The vouchers were taken a few days before. "Boss" Tweed surrendered to the Sheriff on the morning of the 23d, and subsequently gave bail in $5,000 on each of the additional indictments found against him. Judge Brady denied a motion made by Tweed’s counsel to quash the indictment against their client in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, holding that the indictment differed from the one in the Court of General Sessions, and that the trial thereof must be proceeded with. Mayor Hall appeared in court on the 23d, in response to the call of the District Attorney, and gave bail in $5,000 on the new indictment against him. He said he was anxious for trial, and entered a plea of “not guilty,” and his case was proceeded with.

Thomas C. Fields not appearing in court on the calling of his {case on the 23d, the Judge ordered the forfeiture of his bail. The official vote for Governor in Pennsylvania is announced as follows: For Hartranft, 353,398; Buckalew, 317,853. Hartranft’s majority, 35,545. A fire in East Saginaw, Michigan, on the 22d, destroyed a large business block, the: fSss aggregating over SIOO,OOO. At Toledo, Ohio, on the 22d, Mrs. Charles J. Fisher was fatally burned by the explosion of a kerosene lamp. in Chicago, on the night of the 22d, som* stables belonging to J. Y. Seammon were destroyed by fire, and twelve horses perished in the flames, g At the recent session, in Dubuque, of the lowa Grand Lodge X. O. of O. F., the following officers were elected and installed: Grand Master, C. D. Kretchmer, Dubuque; Deputy Grand Master, H. R Walker, Mt. Pleasant; Grand Senior Warden, B. F. Newman, Council Bluffs; Grand Secretary, Win. Garrett, Burlington; Grand Treasurer, John B. Glenn, Bloomfield; Grand' Representatives to the Grand Lodge of the United States, Eric J. Cach, Keokuk, W. W. Moyne, Des Moines. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers were recently in session at St. Louis. A resolution was adopted favoring the abolishment of uil Sunday trains, and a committee was appointed to confer with railroad officials throughout the country on the subject. A clause to be inserted in the act of incorporation providing for the expulsion of any engineer addicted to the use of intoxicating liquors was also adopted. The Republicans of the Fourth Wisconsin District have- nominated General Fred. C. Winkler for Congress. A few evenings ago, at dark, as a farmer named Cromwell, living two miles west of Franklin, Mich., was walking in his dooryard, some one rested a rifle on the roadside fence, three or four rods away, and shouted. As Cromwell turned the unknown fired, the bullet striking him in lung, inflicting a wound from which the man died in about fifteen minutes. The horse epidemic has made its appearance in Chicago. Advices from all sections of South Carolina show that the amendments to the State Constitution prohibiting any increase of the State debt has been ratified by a large affirm ative vote. Both parties very generally indorsed the measure.