Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1872 — THE NEW WOULD. [ARTICLE]

THE NEW WOULD.

Gold closed in New York on the 20th at U3@ll3K. Thursday, November 14th, was observed as Thanksgiving-day in Canada, and business was suspended throughout the Dominion. The Mixed Commission on American and British Claims on the 14tli awarded claims amounting to $39,000, to be paid hy the United States to Great Britain, principally for the property of British subjects destroyed or seized by the*Union forces during the war. The Young Men’s Republican Club in Washington is co-operating with the Congressional Executive Committee and others in making arrangements for the second inauguration of President Grant. On the'Hth the Department of State at Washington received an official copy of the award made by the Empress of Germany in the San Juan Arbitration. The total amount ckpturod by tlie robbers of the Waterford Natioual Bank is computed by the directors at $440,000. Up to tlie 15th no trace of the robbers had been obtained. Two valuable trotting horses were burned to death in a recent tire at Madison, N. J., “Slouch,” formerly “Idaho,” and “Scuttle;” |“81ouch” has a record of 2:28. These horses were the property of James Brice, Jr. They were afflicted with the prevailing epizootic, but were in a convalescent state before the fire. The owner would not have sold them for $20,000. i The full returns give Grant a majority of 5,439 In New Hampshire. . His /majority in Pennsylvania Is about 138,000. The Board bf Assistant Aldermen of New ’Yofft City "on tho 14th tabled the resolution of the Board of Aldermen forbidding the erection of Mansard roofs,.unless of fireproof materlaL It ,ls said that Insurance men have determined to class such structures as extra hazardous, and some companies have fixpd tie rate of insurance at fifty per cent. 4 .... One daily, fifteen weekly, and eleven monthly papers were burned out of their quarters by tho Boston tire, whilo almost every establishment in the city suffered more or less. Rev. Robert Laird Collier tele- , graphed to Chicago on the : 14tU. that the mftnber of families burned out would not probably amount to more than three hundred. „ .-.i The Boston Relief Committee on the 14th voted In favor of accepting the genOrous contributions from other cities in aid of the sufferers bv the recent fire. , ' Comptroller Knox estimates that the Boston banks ha-yertfist about two millions—j^no-twenty-eighth of their resources,—- ! Horses were recently yjng in New York City at the rate of thirty daily. The mortaiUy was caused by dropsy and glanders, resulting from neglected eases of epizootic. These two forms of disease had, la most InalMceSviLoWfl t&ejptivcg when a complete

recovery was supposed to have been effected. Horses, apparently In perfect health at night, would be found In the morning with legs and body swollen to an astonishing degree. The treatment adopted was administering tonics, vegetable and mineral, and, where necessary, the application of a stimulant to the outside of the body. The following are the casualties of the Boston fire as far as known on the 14th. Killed—Lewis C; Thompson, Lewfs Porter Abbott, Frank Olmstead, William Ferry, Daniel Cochrane, anfl five others, names Wounded—Thomas Maloney, Colonel Freeman, William J. Wootlora, G. W. Gardner, Francis Frostier, Charles Paine, Thomas Waldron, John Rlclmrdspji. Peter Pigliam, Albert C. Abbott. ■ Missing—Joseph Burr, George Smith, Walter P. Twombly, John Dillon. ' Albert C. Abbott, believed to be fatally injured, was to have been married on Thanksgiving Day. His brother Lewis, killed, leaves a widow and three children. Their mother, it was thought, would not survive the shock caused by the news of the fate of her sons. Benjamin Erlanger, proprietor of the,Denver Savings Institution, is said to have absconded with SIO,OOO belonging to depositors, A hundred of the latter are poor servants girls, and many of the others are working people. The Indiana Legislature met in special session on the 13th. W. K. Edwards was chosen Speaker of the House, and G. W. Friedley as President of the Senate. W. C. Moreau, editor of the Logansport (Ind.) Sun, was shot a few days ago, but not fatally wounded, Judge Dykeman, whom he had attacked in his paper. A St. Louis telegram of the 14th says Colonel Hay, Republican, in the Fifth District, is defeated by a small majority, which leaves the Congressional delegation four Republicans and nine Democrats. ■ Grant has a majority in California of about 12,000. A recent Cuban letter states that there were 18,000 Insurgents under arms, but there was a scarcity of clothing and medicines among them. Several skirmishes had occurred lately. Spanish desertions were frequent. ... -V The Spanish Minister in Washington, at the instance of his Government, called on the President on the 15th, and congratulated him on his re-election. In the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention on the 15th, Charles R. Bnckalew was sworn in as a member, in place of Frazer, of Columbia, who resigned for that purpose. A Rochester (N. Y.) dispatch of the 15th says warrants had been issued hy United States Commissioner Storrs for the arrest of Susan B. Anthony and fourteen other females Who voted at the late election. The parties would probably be brought into Court in a few days. Grant’s majority in New Jersey is officially stated at 14,557. The Boston Advertiser of the 13th places the total losses by the destruction of buildings and merchandise by the great fire at less than $74,000,000, about $14,000,000 of Which falls upon non-residents. The total insurance upon these losses it estimates at $45,000,000, of which at least $38,000,000 will be paid. .'. A telegram of the 15th reports numerous deaths among the horses in Buffalo, N. Y., from affection of the kidneys and dropsy, caused by overwork. The epizootic was reported on tho 15th as becoming general throughout the Pennsylvania coal regions. Tlie mules were attacked by the disease. The contents of many of the safes dug out of the ruins of the Boston lire have been found so charred as to be worthless. The subscriptions in one day in Chicago, for the Boston Relief fund, exclusive of the SIOO,OOO contributed by the Chicago Relief society, are stated at $150,000. General Oglesby’s majority for Governor in Illinois is officially announced to be 40,370. The majority for Grant and Wilson is about 56,000. = __ In his late message to the Indiana Legislature, Governor Baker recommends that provision be made for calling a convention to revise the Constitution Of the State, and also favors the building of two additional hospitals for the insane, and the enlarging of the present instltute for tho education of tho blind; also recommends the completion of the House of Refuge and, other public buildings. r Two young men of Valparaiso, Ind., named Drago and Pomero’y, in the early part of the season made a wager on the Presidential election and drew up a Written contract, binding the losing party to wheel the winning party from Valparaiso to Chicago on a wheelbarrow. The distance by road Is fifty miles. Drago bet on Greeley and Pom-, eroy on Grapt. They started on the journey at one o’clock on the 11th, accompanied by several young men in a carriage. The wheelbarrow was gotten up for the occasion,'With springs, well cushioned, silverlnouuted, and large wheel. The official returns give Greeley 1,073 majority in Maryland. __ It is said the Postmaster General, in his forthcoming report, will recommend the repetl of the franking privilege and the assumption hy the Government of the telegraph business of the country. A delegation of Pennsylvanians, headed by the Governor-elect, Senator Cameron, cxCongrcssman O’Neil, and others to the number of about thirty, had a,n interview with the President on the 15th, in relation to the appointment of a Postmaster for Philadelphia. They nrged the claims of Georgej frwnafr; a merehanfc of the city, for the place. The President listened attentively, but gave no definite response relative tfc-the selection. George" Fljrman, *"CtOTIcID the office, was i also a candidate. An appointment tinder the Civil Bervice regulations enters into the controversy. A special says that the President was inclined to appoint the clerk, and the delegation was somewhat excited in consequence... The Young Men’s Republican Clnb of Washington called upon the President on the 16th, and congratulated him upon his re-election. The President, in his reply to,, the informal address, said: “The vote he received was more gratifying to him than the possession of the office itself, as it served to show that the, Amejjsan people did not believe the campaign slanders #n his charac- —- ' * : • - : - ■ A Washington special of the 16th says the city was filling up with q>a|tlcians;’who commented severely upon the course of the President ill rc|ation to the. Civil Service' rules, as manifested in his rlmarks to the Pennsylvania delegation, abn#t the appointment of the Postmaster Tor Philadelphia. They allege that a strict enforcement of the rule will exclude many men from holding officewho ha to Just claims ipon the Repub-

licans, and who can creditably fill the offices for which they apply, but nevertheless cannot pass the Civil Service examination. Congratulatory messages were exchanged on the 15th between the Mayors of Adelaide, Australia, and New York, upon the completion of telegraphic communication. The funeral of young Frank D. Olmstead, a cousin of Richard H. Dana, who was fatally injured in a heroic and successful endeavor to save the lives of seven firemen in Boston, took place at Cambridge on the ISlh'. andwas very largely attended. He was but seventeen years old, and had just left the Cambridge High School with honors. It was believed in Boston on the 16th that the direct and indireel losses will not exceed $40,000,000 after the insurance is liquidated. Public sentiment seemed to be adverse to accepting offers of money from other cities. The Globe, Advertiser and Transcript opposed the action of the Relief Committee in voting to accept. The dropsy malady continued among the horses in New York City on the 16th, and was of a very fatal type. Commodore Vanderbilt’s famous racer, Mountain Boy, died on thelsth. The horse disease was spreading rapidly In Toledo on the 16th. The leading livery stables of the city were closed. While the roof was being raised on the new passenger depot at Jackson, Mich., on the 16th, the scaffolding gave way, precipitating the men and timber to the joists below. Eleven men were seriously hurt. Up to six o’clock in the evening two had died, the foreman, Davis, and a Mr. Williams. Robert H, Kelly has been appointed Pension Agent at Louisville, Ky., vice William E. Gallagher, suspended. The official returns give Grant a majority in Delaware of 90S. Mr. Tyler, Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee of Alabama, telegraphs to Athens to George S. Houston, that the Democrats will have four or five majority in joint ballot in the Legislature. The trial of Reverend G. H. Robertson, of Louisville, has resulted in a verdict, by the Presbytery,, of perpetual deposition from the ministry and suspension from the privileges of the church until he shall give satisfactory evidences of repentance. The charges were drunkenness, lascivious conduct, and falsehood. A Washington telegram of the 17tli says: “ There will be but two changes in President Grant’s Cabinet after the 4th of March next. These will be the retirement of Secretary’ Fisli and one other officer.” The following are the remarks made by the President to the Pennsylvania delegation who recently waited upon him to secure the appointment of a Postmaster for Philadelphia of their own selection: Gknti.kmkn: Ido not well see how it would be proper for me to set aside the rules , and regulations of the Civil Service Commsssion. I some • time ago determined to enforce those regulations <m every proper .occasion. Want have wo here v There are two candidates presented, both Republicans. One Of them, Mr. Fairnjan, has been an employee of the Philadelphia Post-oflice for some time, and I am satisfied that lie is fuiiy competent to discharge the duties of Postmaster. If I was disposed to set aside civil service rules I might appoint Mr. Trueman, but 1 cannot conscientiously do this. It is said the forthcoming message of the President “ will be more libeVal in its tone, especially toward the South, than his former messages, the recent vote in that section being indicative of better feeling than heretofore toward the General Government, while the press is more moderate in its utterances, not taking into account the popularmaj.qrii.'SLOf the entire country.” Colonel Blood, charged with complicity in the Woodhull slander upon Mr. Challis, has been fully committed to answer in default of $5,000 bail. Justice Aguew, of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, sitting at Pittsburgh, has decided that a railroad ticket imports upon its face no right to stop off, or, in other words, to make the journey by stages. If such a privilege exists in connection with a ticket, the Court declares It is only by sufferance of the railroad. The residence of John Watson, one mile from Titusville, Pa., was entered on tije evening of the 15th, immediately after dark, by five masked men, who, after binding each member of the family, compelled Mr. Watson to open his safe, from which between SI,OOO and $2,000 were taken, after which ho was likewise bound. In their hurry to get awaythe robbers upset a kerosene lamp, which set fire to the house, which was with great difficulty put out by the robbers, and which severely burned Mr. Watson where he lay. The men left the house, leaving the Inmates securely gagged and bound. They were not discovered until midnight of the 16th. Mrs. Watson was in a critical condition when found, the handcuffs and irons placed bn her ankles cutting into the flesh. Another fire broke out In Boston on the night of the 18th, which threatened at one time to become quite serious. The store of Carter, Mann & Co., in the middle of State Street Block, was destroyed. Loss between SIOO,OOO and $200,000. A New York dispatch of the 18th says along the line of the Hudson River a terrible disease had broken out among the poultry. Chickens were dying by hundreds, and the turkeys, geese, and ducks in the city market showed signs of the malady. A similar disease is also reported as prevailing among the poultry on tlie banks of the Susquehanna River, in Pennsylvania. A general strike was prevailing on the 18th, in the mining regions in the vicinity of. Pittsburgh, Pa, The operators refused to give an advance demanded of ten cents per ton. The large Store-rbdm of Woodruff and Robinson, Brooklyn,. N. Y., was destroyed by dre on the 18th. G ra ' n to the amount of $400,000 was burned, ‘ and a large quantity of sugar was destroyed. Loss about SBOO, 000. - The wheelbarrow troupe, from Valparaiso, Ind., arrived in Chicago on the 16th, both wheeler and wheeled being considerably disgusted with this manner of settling an elec j tion bet, the trip hfiViSg eevbrly taxed the cm i durance of both'parties. This would seem to be a case where both sides lost and neither won—except in notoriety. The Illinois Female College, at Jacksonville,, tlie plopcrty of the Illinois Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Was destroyed by fire on the evening of the 18th. Loss nearly-#.!®,006; insured for #35,000." Grant’s exact ipajority in Illinois is 56,718. The State Legislature is composed as fol- ! lows: Senate, 82 Republicans, 19Democrats; | House, 88 Republicans, 65 Democrats. The J Congressional delegation consists Of fourteen Republicans and five Democrats and Liberals, -as follows; Republicans—First District, J. B, Rice; Second, Jasper D. Ward; TfflrdM 'harles B, Farwall; Fourth, Stephen ***• . - . tsar. ‘

A. Hurlbut; Fifth, Horatio C. Burchard; Sixth, John B. Hawley; Seventh, Franklin Corwin; Eighth, Greenbury L. Fort; Ninth, Granville Barrere; Tenth, William Ray; Thirteenth, John McNulta ; Fourteenth, Joseph G. Cannon; Sixteenth, James S. Martin; Eighteenth, Isaac Clements. Democrats and Liberals—Eleventh District, Robert M. Knapp; Twelfth, james*C. Robinson; Fifteenth, John R. Eden; Seventeenth, William R. Morrison; Nineteenth, Samuel S. Marshall. An alarm of fire occurred at two o’clock the other morning in Cincinnati, when, tho horses being disabled, men got Out 6f bed and drew six engines to the spot in only three or four minutes longer time than*lt* would have taken the horses. The business portion of the town of Abbeyville, 8. C., was destroyed by fire a few days ago. Loss, $50,000; partly insured. A destructive fire occurred at Fort Smith, Ark., on the 14th, destroying property to the amount of SIOO,OOO. The United States Court rooms, Marshal’s office, Post-Office, and thirteen business house*, besides private dwellings, were consumed. A Washington telegram of the 19th says Senator Trumbull had written a letter declining to continue as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Peter Cooper has addressed a congratulatory letter to President Grant, and asks for the enforcement of the Civil Service rules. The President has appointed Mrs. Elizabeth Porter to be Postmaster at sellville, Ky., vice Elias Porter, deceased. A Washington dispatch of the 19th says the recent action of Jhe United States Marshal in Alabama, in arresting three Democratic members of the Legislature, for alleged violation of the Election laws, and carrying them to Mobile to prevent a quorum of the Legislature, is severely condemned by the Administration as unwise, unnecessary, and,, perhaps, Illegal. ar A severe shock of earthquake occurred at Concord, N. H., on the afternoon of the 18th. It began with a sort of explosion, followed by a rumbling and shaking which lasted about ten seconds. Buildings shook violently, and %he shock was plainly perceptible to people walking in the streets. Its apparent course was from west to east. The telegraph operators at Costoocook and Warner report the same shock there. Warrants were issued in Rochester, N. Y,, on the 18th, for the Inspectors of Election who received the ballots of Susan B. Anthony and her friends. In New York, on the 18th. Ambrose C. O’Neill, a detective, gave evidence in the divorce suit of Mrs. King, against her husband, James C. King, a lawyer, to the effect that the latter had been guilty o: brutal conduct towards liis wife. When O’Neill left the court room, King followed him and shot him twice, causing-death in half an' hour. The Washington Fire Insurance Company, of New York, has suspended, owing to their losses in the Boeton fire. The President says they cannot pay more than fifty cents on the dollar. The special session of the Massachusetts Legislature, called in consequence of the Boston fire, convened on the tilth. The Legislature of West Virginia met at Clfarlestown on the 19th, and perfected their organization harmoniously.- * The General Assembly of North Carolina completed its organization on the 19th. Hon. J. T. Moreliead was elected Speaker of the Senate, and Captain James Robinson Speaker of the House. AIL the officers of both Jlouses are Conservatives. The Alabama Legislate® “met at Montgomery on the 18th, the Conservative and Radical members of each House Convening separately and effecting separate organizations. The Conservatives met in the Capital building and the Radicals in the United States Court room. - The horse disease was alarmingly prevalent in Wilmington, N. C., on the IStb, and had made its appearance in Memphis apd Nashville, Tcnn. . „It..was.-givcn.o«t-4n --W*shin|rton'rrtrthe' 20th, upon the authority of the Administration, that the interview of the Pennsylvania politicians with the President, relative- tb tho Philadelphia Post-Office, - ’ was of the most pleasant character, and that the delegation nnly aaked:thftt Jf-J,hfi-Civ-Ll .Service rules were to be disregarded, Truman might be appointed. To this the President replied that he Intended to be governed by the Civil Service ruleiL in all future appointments. The President is firm in this position. The bronze statue of Lincoln, by Meade, has been completed by tbe Ames Manufacturing Company of Massachusetts. The Monument Association has been notified that it is ready to be delivered. The statue is ten feet and eight inches high, and is said to bp a fine work of art. I Rand & Avery's jextensive printing house in Boston, near the foot of Washington "street, was destroyed by fire on the 20th. Their loss is $250,000; other losses about #IOO,OOO. ' " ; A bill for the abolition of • capital punishment has failed in the Vermont Legislature. A fire in Jersey City, on the 20th, destroyed Jarvis & Hemwood’s tobocco Inspection warehouse and about 3,(D0 hogsheads of tobacco, valued at $800,000; loss on building about SIB,(XX). Governor Palmer has commuted the sentence of Grcgori Peri, who was to have been hanged in Chicago in December, for the murder of O’Brien and Ready, over a year ago, to imprisonment in the Penitentiary for life. " Tbe-poultry disease is reported-VS having appeared in Some sections of the West. .The vote in South Carotins is 95,217. Grant’s majority, 49,356. The Louisiana election imbroglio has been partially settled by the Eighth District Court deciding that Herron is de facto Secretary of Btate. By this decision the Returning Board of Lhe State consists of H. C. Warmoth, F. J. Herron, James Longstreet, James Hawkins, and John Lynch. The ease will probably go to the Supreme Court. On the 20iii 'Governor Lindsay, of Alabama, informed-the Legislative body, Conservative, sitting at the,Capitol, that he would sci'd in his messagertfie next day. In reply to a Committee of the branch,"Republican, sitting in the 1 United States Court room, he de- j tailed in writing tli'c legal organization, of the Legislature at the Capitol, the lawful and usual place of meeting, which supreme and insurmountable necessity “can only change, lle-was ignorant of the existence of such a necessity, and therefore declined to recognize the body assembled in the Court-room, with whom he would have no official communication. —John Smith- has been convicted Of CORutorfeUing in. Ban Francisco,