Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1872 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

THE OLD WORLD. The police force of London recently engaged in a general movement for an increase of pay, and serious inconvenience grew out of the strike. The postmen joined the movement on the 20th, and a public meetihg was called for the 24th. The French Assembly has passed the trial by jury bill —461 to 178. The bill.legalizing the marriage to a deceased wife’s sister has passed the Legislature of Victoria, Australia. Emigration from Italy to the United States has inereasedTo such. an~cxlehf that the attention of the Government has been called to it. At a meeting of the Deputies of the Left Center, of the French Assembly, on the 21st, a report was unanimously adopted, containing, among others, propositions for the prolongation of President Theirs’ term of office to four years; the nomination of a Vice-Pres-ident, and the creation of a second Chamber. The members of the extreme Left indorsed the declaration of Gambctta that the dissolution of the National Assembly was. the sole remedy for existing difficulties. President Thiers told several of his friends who called upon him, on the 22d, that he would make all reasonable concessions to secure harmony in the Government*; but that it was impossible for him to relinquish his well-known convictions. It was known in Paris on the 23d that President Thiers Indorsed the plan proposed by the Committee of the Left Center for- the formation of a second Chamber of the National Legislature. lie also favored some definite settlement of the relations between the Legislative and Executive Departments of the Government.. Paris dispatches of the 25th state that the political situation was gloomy, and it was unlikely that the differences between the pro.iHant. and t.he Assembly could be arranged. The Right Wing of the National Asscmbly’had selected General Changarnicr for President, should Thiers resign. The majority report of the Committee bn the Address was read in the French Assembly on the 26th. It insisted on' the establishment of a responsible Ministry as a means of fighting Radicalism. A motion to postpone its consideration to the 28th was carried—3s‘i to 332—and this result was regarded as a favorable indication for the Government. - . . , .

TUE NEW WOULD. Gold closed In New York on the 26th at 112%@113. A Washington telegram of the 21st announces that the President’s message would not be printed in advance of itp transmission to Congress. The President has appointed G. W. hairman Postmaster at Philadelphia, vice H. H. Bingham, resigned. From the official statement of shipments of wool to Boston, and of sales made there, it is estimated in New York, that not more than 2,000,000 pounds were lost by the great fire. ... Stanley, Dr. Livingstone’s finder, reached New York on the 20th, from Europe. A New York dispatch of the 20th says the Health Department officers, after examining the poultry markets and stores,reported that they found no diseased fowls, and no evidence of the prevalence of the reported malady-, * ■— Leading members of Henry Ward Beecher’s church have published an announcement that no' one connected with that church has taken any part in the proceedings against the notorious women, Woodhull and Claflin, and will not do so for thepresent. It was privately intimated on the 21st that the affidavits of all the slandered parties have been-made, and would be ready when wanted. A change of venue has been granted in the cases of Chris topherßaffertykndAndrew J. Perteet, the two Chicago murderers. The new trials will take place in Lake County for Rafferty, and Will County for Perteet. The Chicago papers of the 21st report the horse disease as having run its course in the city, and the horses were nearly all well or rapidly recovering. The Society of the! Army of the Cumberland held its sixth annual reunion, at Dayton, 0., on the 20th. Twenty-one buildTngs, consfltutingalarge part of the business section of Galva, 111., were destroyed by lire on the morning of the 21st. Thirty-five business firms were burnt out, and thirteen families rendered homeless. Total loss about $100,000; insurance about $40,000. The Democratic members of the Indiana Legislature on the 2lst nominated James D. Williams, State Senator from Knox Counter, as a Candidate for United States Senator.

Stanton, the man with tho alleged $350,000 ruby, arrived at Denver from Arizona on the 20th, and freely exhibited the gem, which is very bcautifu}, though jewelers are in doubt as to its being anything more than a garnet, lie also shows what he calls a $15,000 diamond. ” The total vote in Virginia for President was 184,005, Grant’s majority is 1,900. Of the nine members of Congress elect, four are Republicans and five Democrats. President Grant is said to be strongly in favor of paying the same salaries to women as to men for similar work in the Departments. The Hon.. William Gaston, Mayor of Boston, was nominated by tho Democrataon the 33d for re-election. Some three hundred negroes have recently arrived In NeW' York, from Savannah, en rmete for Liberia. They are the first of som» : 3,000 who intend to emigrate. Jay Gould, ex-Prosident of the Erie Rail way, was arrested in New York on the 23d, at the suit of P. H. Weston, the present 'President of the c ompany. The warrant was based on an affidavit which charges Jay Gould with wrongfully taking to his own use, while in control of the Erie Railroad, $9,500,000 of money belonging to the Erie stockholders Mrs. Laura Fair was announced to lecture in San Francisco on the £veniDg of the 21st, but a large gathering of people in front of her residence and in the,vicinity of the hall Where the lecture was to be delivered made sueh threatening demonstrations that the notorious woman was advised by the Chief of Police of the danger which would attend her should she attempt to keep her appointment, jpd she remained in her rooms, in company with a "few friends. The crowd hooted and yelled, and men tried to force their way np stairs, but were driven back. The people of San Francisco are much incensed at her proposition to give public lectures.

Ahe official returns of the vote in Ohio Jbw: Grant, 281,852; Greeley, 244,321; rarck, 2,10(5; O’Conor, 1,163; scattering, 162, The total vote cast was 529,598. Grant’s majority over Greeley is 37,531. A sub-committee appointed by the Committee of Fifteen in Chicago to Inquire into the causes of crime made a report in which they state that, in their opinion, there is no cause.aside from the evil predisposition which many criminals receive with their blood, or from their early associations, which so directly excites to crime as the indulgence in intoxicating drink. Widespread statistics are cited to support their conclusion that the crimes of » people are Inproportion to their facilities for becoming intoxicated, and they assert that, if the liquor traffic were properly regulated, there would .be a. diminution of nearly one hundred per cent, in the number of crimes. At tlie annual session, in St. Lonis, on the 21st, of the American Woman Suffrage Association, the following officers were chosen for the ensuing year: President, Colonel T. W. Ifigginson; Vice-Presidents, Julia Ward Howe, Hon. Henry Wilson, General Wm. Curtis, Wm. L. Garrison, Mary A. Livermore, Mrs. W. T. Mrs. Langley, Mrs. Cutter; Secretary, Mary B. Blackwell; Treasurer, John K. Wcldman; Chairman Executive Committee, Lucy Stone. Among the resolutions adopted was one calling upon Congress to enact a law establishing woman suffrage in the District of Columbia, and the Territory, and also for the admission of women to positions under the Government, with equal pay for equal work; also, to submit a sixteenth Constitutional amendment to States abolishing political distinctions of sex. The Memphis Industrial Exposition, which closed on the 22d, is said to have been a decided success, financially and otherwise.

President Grant has directed the issue of a pardon to Reuben J. Young, of Alabama, eonvieted in May, 1572, of being, implicated In theKu-Klux conspiracy, ar.d sentenced to be imprisoned for ten years and to pay a fine of SI,OOO. The Commission to investigate the outrages onthe Rio Grande border have completed their report, which is very long. The Commissioners confined their investigation to the distance of 500 miles, from the mouth of the Rio Grande to Rio Grande City, estimating that the Americans included within the limit have by Mexican raids suffered to the extent of $30,000,000, to say nothing of the murders' committed by Mexicans. They think that if they had continued their investigation as far as El Paso it wohld have been discovered that the total losses, including those caused by Indian raids, would have increased the sum total to $100,000,000. They Urge protection to the people on the border by an increase of cavalry, otherwise a predatory war will result. The Revenue Marine report, commenting upon Civil Service competitive examinations in that service, says that whatever the result in other branches of the, service, this competitive examination has been attended by the best results. It has given the service . the best corps of junior officers it ever possessed, and has inspired among them a vigorous competition in pursuit of professional attainments. The National Board of Underwriters, recently in session in New York, has resolved unanimously to charge an advance of 50 per cent, upon all Mansard roofs, except those constructed of fire-proof material. Colonel Blood Was again arrested on the 22d, in a civil suit brought by and in default of SB,OOO bail lodged in Ludlow street prison. He Rad just given bail in another suit when arrested. * Mrs. Putnam, wife of the victim of Foster, the New York car-hook murderer, has been awarded $5,000 damages in her suit against the street railroad company, one of whose cars was the scene of the assault, and whose employes, she claimed, should have protected Mr. Putnam. Roberts’ glycerine magazine, at Scrub Grass, Pa., exploded on the23d, killing Harry J. Wolfe, telegrapher, anflß- A. Wright*, torpedo agent. Only the fragments of their bodies were recovered. It was recently stated at the Police Headquarters in New York that since the middle of October thirteen persons had been reported missing, and no trace of them could be found. The official' returns of the vote in New York for Presidential Electors show the following result: Grant and Wilson, 440,629; Greeley and Brown, 382,279; O’Conor, 1,454; Temperance candidate, 201. Total, 824,563. Grant’s majority over Greeley 58,350; over all, 56,695. At Princeton, ind., on the 22d, Thomas Camp was hanged for the murder of JohnR. Bildersback.

A sensation has been caused in San Francisco by a report that Mrs. Fair had entered into a plot, previous ,to her second trial, with a restaurant waiter named Frank for the poisoning of Judge Dwindle and the opposing counsel. The recent report that a number of workmen were snowbound at the western end of the Winona & St. Peter Railroad, in Minnesota, and were in danger of starvation, proves to have been greatly exaggerated. Later news is to the effect that an abundance of supplies were within reach, and no. special distress was anticipated. x There was a destructive fire IQ.Milledgeville, Ua., on the 23d, which destroyed the hotel block, containing several stores and residences. The official count of votes in Tennessee show; Greeley, 94,319; Grant, 85,(533. Greeley’s majority, 8,586. Brown, for Governor, i 97,600; Freeman, 83,889; Brown’s majority, 13,811. Maynard for Congress, 80,835; Cheatham, 65,578; Johnson, 37,900; Maynard’s majority over Cheatham, 15,347; over Johnson, 42,925. The gratifying news is received that another of the boats In which the passengers and crew of the burned steamer Missouri embarked was saved, and that several persons who have been counted among the lost have reached Nassau in safety. The telegraphic account of their experience at sea states that several of those who left the burning vessel in this boat became crazed by their terrible privations and jumped over; board. - - ’ The West Virginia Legislature has elected D. D. Johnson, of Tyler, President of the Senate, and William W. Miller, of Wheeling, Speaker of the House. Tfie President has appointed Albert W: Walne as Pension Agent at Des Moines, lowa. .... On the 23d, according to a London dispatch received at the British Embassy in Washington, the British flag, which, since the Ashbgrton Treaty of 1846, had waved

jointly with our own over the island of San Jnqn, was hauled down, in deference to the decision of King William. The United States authorities arc now in sole possession of the Island. yj’ l ■■ A report was started in New York on the 25th that the Hon. Rorace Greeley had become insane and been confined in a lunatic asylum. This report was subsequently contradicted. It seems he was suffering, to some extent from nervous prostration caused by the loss of nearly all sleep almost' continually for over a month during his’ wife’s illness. A dispatch from Whltclaw Reid on the evening of the 25th states that the of Mr. * Greeley’s being ’’lnsane was without any foundation whatever, that his complaints were of a negative nature, and that he would be able to resume his editorial duties in a short time. ’ Meara, who attempted to assassinate exAlderman McMullen, of Philadelphia, has been sentenced to six years and nine months imprisonment, and to pay a find of SI,OOO. A suit has been instituted by the Erie Railway Company against Daniel Drew, to recover $5,000,000, alleged to have been embezzled by him while Treasurer of the Company in 1868, by the sale of fifty thousand shares of watered stock. The following States chose Greeley electors : Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas, Georgia and Maryland. The remaining States voted for Grant. The Electoral College stands: For Grant, 301; Greeley, 65. The official majority for Grant in Wisconsin is 18,493. The Democratic majority in Missouri, on' Governor, is 35,443. On the other State officers the majority is considerably larger.

The horse disease in Cincinnati was said to bg,,abating on the 25th, and many horses were being brought out on the streets. William Pitt Kellogg has been elected Governor of Louisiana by a majority of 12,761. The rest of the Republican State ticket is also elected, and the Republicans have a majority in the new Legislature. Hart, Republican, is reported to have a majority of over 2,000, for Governor of Florida, over Bloxham. Two men were killed and fifteen by a railroad collision near Wilmington, Del., a few nights ago. Brigadier-General Irvin McDowell has been appointed to succeed .the late General Meade. General McDowell has been assigned to the command of the Department of the South. Major-General Hancock is assigned to the Department of the East, of Which General Meade was in command. Hon. Charles Sumner arrived at New York on the 26th, from Europe. At Yonkers, N. Y., on the 25th, four -youths, whose ages ranged from sixteen, to twenty-one years, being out for sport, encounteredfour cans of nitro glycerine, which had been deposited in an excavation two feet.deep, on the line of the newly-con-structed portion of, the New York <fc Boston Railroad. Two of the young men wanted to see what effect an explosion would have, and so dropped a large stone upon tic cans, The tremendous explosion which followed was heard for miles, and shook the houses in the vicinity. Two of the party weye horribly mutilated, their limbs being blown' in all directions, and their remains were scarcely recgnizablc. The other two were frightfully wounded, but might recover. The Northwestern “corner” culminated in NewTork on the 26th, when the stock declined, and was offered at 100, with 85** bid. It was believed the clique had taken in cash between $3,500,000, and $5,000,000, and that one or two millions of difference remain to be adjusted by the Courts. A New York dispatch of the 26th says: “A number of reporters yesterday visited several intimate friend* of Mr. Greeley, both in this city and Westchester County, where Mr. Greeley is, and all represent that that gentleman is simply suffering from ill health, owing to an attack of nervous prostration.” A San Francisco dispatch of the. 26th says voluminous reports by Messrs. King, Colton, Bost and Fry, on the alleged diamond fields, had been submitted to the trustees, who had resolved that it was due to the public to expose the fraud upon them and the stockholders. No more stock would be issued or transferred, and the corporation would be dissolved as soon as practicable. The Indiana Legislature voted for United States Senator on the 26th. The ballot stood: For O. P. Morton, 81; for J. D, Williains, Democrat, 62. Morton’s majority, 19: - The Bouth Carolina Legislature assembled at Columbus on the 26tb. Lee (colored>was elected Speaker of the House.