Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1873 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

CONGRESS. SENATE—EXTRA SESSION MARcn 13.—The Caldwell case was further debated, and resolutions were offered that he be expelled from hie seat in the Senate, and to the effect that the Senate has power under the Constitution to reject any Senator-elect, provided It he shown to its satisfaction that the election Is tainted with fraud.... Mr. McCreery, at his own request, was excused from serving on the Committees on Public Buildings and Agriculture....A resolution was offered and referred to pay Ray and McMillan, respectively, applying for seats from Louisiana, compensation for the unexpired term ending March 4,1873... .The Senate decided not to receive petitions during the present extra session. March 14.—A memorial was presented asking that the papers as to the Kansas Senatorial election be taken from the flies and referred to the Committee on Elections....A resolution was offered and laid over, authorizing the Committee on Commerce, during recess, to investigate what steamship lines should be subsidized; also, as to the expediency of granting bounties to shipbuilders, etc Meßßrs. Morrill (Vermont) and Schurz argued in favor, and Mr. Scott against, the resolution declaring that Mr. Caldwell was not duly and legally elected Senator... .Adjourned to the 17th. ' . March 17. Papers were subtaitted and referred, signed by members of the Legislature of Missouri and others, alleging that there was corruption in the election of Mr. Bogy as Senator The credentials of Senator Bontwell, of Massachusetts, were presented and he was sworn in.... The Caldwell case was further debated, Mr. Sanlebnry favoring expulsion, Mr. Pratt advoeatingthfl re6QMion_.dccJa*pgthc election illegal and void, and Mr, Bayard claiming that there was nothing in the pending case which could justify the passage of a resolution declaring the election invalid; hut the power of expulsion was clear in vindication of the honor and dignity of the Senate. March 18.— Mr. Bogy, of Missouri, in reply to the charge of bribery and corruption in the procurement of his election to the Senate, related the circumstances under which he was elected, denied the charges of bribery and corruption, and asked an immediate investigation.... In the debate on the Caldwell case, Sir. Norwood argued that the Senate had perfect and absolute power to declare void an election procured by bribery and fraud, and remit the matter to the State for a new election; Mr. Thurman thought the election of Mr. Caldwell was thoroughly corrupt, and if the Senate did not turn out a man whose election was procured by fraud, or declare the seat vacant nntil they obtained stronger testimony, the power to do so might as well be stricken from the Constitution. March 19.— Aniotion was adopted requesting the Commissioner of Agriculture to communicate to the Senate his annual report, with accompanying papers, which were ordered to be printed.... Mr. Cenkling argued against the resolution declaring that Mr. Caldwell was not legally elected to the Senate. THE OLD WORLD. On the 13th the resignation of the Ministry was formally announced by Gladstone in the English House of Commons, and Granville in the House of Lords. Both Houses thereupon adjourned until the 17th. It was authoritatively announced that the Queen had requested Disraeli to form a new government, but the latter begged for time for consideration. News was received in London on the 13th, of a defeat sustained by the Government troops of Spain in ah engagement with the Carlists, while endeavoring to dislodge the latter from the heights of Monreal. The Right Reverend Charles Pettit McIlvaine, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Ohio, died at Florence, Italy, on the 14th, aged seventy-five years. Spanish advices of the 16th state that the Government has received a dispatch announcing that 3,000 Carlists, concentrated at Yera, had been routed by General Nordas, after a sanguinary battle, which lasted several hours. General Nouvillas was actively pressing, forward the campaign in the north. Senor Figueras, accompanied by the Civil Governor of the Province and Henry Ruggles, United States Consul, had visited the United States squadron in the port of Barcelona, and were received with full honors on board the steamers Brooklyn and Shenandoah, Captain Bryson, of the Brooklyn, proposed the health of Senor Figueras.»The President responded by paying a tribute to the memory of Washington, and thanking Americans for their expressions of sympathy for the new Republic.

The new treaty between France and Germany, providing for the evacuation of the French provinces, was signed at Berlin on the 15th. The German forces are to evacuate all places they now hold in France by the Ist of July, with the exception of Verdun and vicinity, from which they are to withdraw on the sth of September. It is announced from London that the vacant Premiership had been refused by Mr. Disraeli, the reason stated being his belief, concurred in by Earl Derby, “that the Conservatives cannot accept the responsibility of forming a government at this time.” The Irish residents of London made a grand public demonstration at Hvde Park on the 16th, in favor of home rule in Ireland ana amnesty for the imprisoned Fenians.

Everything passed off quietly. It was rmnored in London on the 17th that Mr. Gladstone would/ resume the Premiership, the Queen having signified to him her belief that there was no prospect of the Opposition forming a new government. A Madrid dispateh of the 17th says the Spanish Government had received official information of the defeat, near Pampeluna, of the united Carlist bands led by Oils Perula and Dorregaray, by a force of Spanish troops under Gen. Castrano. The insurrectionists were completely dispersed: -- A serious riot between Englishmen and Irishmen occurred at Wolverhampton, near Birmingham, on the 18th. At least 3,000 persons were engaged in the conflict. I irearms and knives were freely used, and there was much blood shed, though no cases of fatal ihjury are reported. The French Assembly on the 19th ratified, without a dissenting voice, the treaty signed by Thiers and Count Von Arnim, German Ambassador, providing for the payment of the war indemnify and the evacuation of French territory.

A dispatch from Geneva, Switserland, 19th, says the religious excitement in that city, caused by the preaching of Father Hyacinth#, was increasing. The ultramontane* were much exasperated.

THE NEW WOULD. Gold closed in New Tqrk on the 19th at 115&@U5X. .7 News from,,the New Hampshire election on the 14th was to the effect that Straw (Eel publican) was elected Governor, by between 300 and 400 majority. Small (Republican) was probably elected to Congress from First District, and the- Second District was doubtful. In the Third District the Democratic candidate is elected. ' At Vallejo, Cal., on the 12th, James D. Page shot his wife and then blew his own brains out. Domestic difficulties.. President Grant visited Philadelphia on the 13th, where he was the guest ot.Hoa* E. A. Borie. In the evening he attended a banquet at the Union League house, and subsequently resumed to Washington.

Mrs. Putnam has written a letterdenylng that she was paid by Foster’s father or any one else for petitioning to have the condemned man’s sentence commuted. The Rhode Island Republican State Convention have made the following nominations: For Governor, Henry Howard; Lieu-tenant-Governor, Charles C. Van Zandt; Secretary of State, Joshua M. Addeman; At-torney-General, Willard Sayles; General Treasurer, Samuel Clark. A Washington special of the 13th says: “The country has been generally misinformed in relation to Congressional legislation with regard to the postal laws. The Farnsworth bill, reducing letter postage to two cents, and providing for the prepayment of postage on all mall matter, passed the House, but failed inthe Senate. - There was an amendment to the Post-Office Appropriation bill, which repeals all existing acts with regard to free mail matter. This, of course, includes exchanges between newspapers and free postage on papers circulated inthe counties where they are published. This law takes effect on the Ist of July." The Massachusetts House of Representatives has rejected the Woman’s Suffrage resolution by a vote of 142 to 83. In passing the House resolution of censure against members of Congress who voted to Increase their back pay, the Ohio .Senate added an amendment extending the censure to those who voted against the extra pay and then accepted it. The Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South has found the Rev. Dr. Huston, of Baltimore, guilty of immorality, and he has been expelled from the Church. An appeal will be taken by his counsel to the General Conference of the Methodist Church. Governor Dix has refused to commute the sentence of Foster, the car-hook murderer. Four prisoners, awaiting trial for penitentiary offenses, made their escape from the county jail at South Bend, Ind., on the night of the 13th. At Franklin, Pa., on the morning of the 14th, Thomas F. Anderson, cashier of R. Lamberton’s bank, committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver. Just previous to taking his life he had gone to the’bank and gathered together all the money, bonds, and other securities, together with the account books, which he placed in the grate and set on fire. It is estimated that the value of the securities burned was about SIOO,OOO, of which perhaps $40,000 can be recognized and saved. It is supposed that Anderson was a defaulter, and that as the bank was about to change hands, he took this method to avoid his inevitable exposure. He was about thirty-four years of age, had a wife and family, and fully enjoyed the confidence of his employers. The execution of George Driver for the murder of his divorced wife in Chicago last November, took place on the 14th. Just previous to being swung off he seized the rope, and holding it up before those assembled to see him executed, he said : “Whisky did this for me. When any of you take a drink .of whisky hereafter, think of this rope and remember my fate.” On the same day, at Knoxville, 111., Osborne, who so brutally murdered Mrs. Matthews, a young married woman, at Tates City, was also executed on the gallows, after making a full confession of the crime for which he had been tried and sentenced to death. A complimentary reception and dinner was tendered to Congressman Oakes Ames, on the 13th, upon the occasion of his return to his home at North Easton, Mass. Mr. Ames, in reply to a complimentary toast made a short speech in which he said that his “whole offense, H offence it can be called, is in selling $16,0Q0 es stock to eleven members of Congress at the same price I paid for it, and at the same price I sold the same stock to others, and If the parties purchasing the stock had simply told the truth, and said they had a right to purchase it, that would have been the end._of it; but from the fact of their denial, the public suspected there must be something criminal in the transaction, and to find out what the erfine was, Congress appointed a committee to inquire if Oakes Ames had bribed any member of Congress.” The principal business portion of Elyria, Ohio, was destroyed by fire on the night of the 15th. Loss estimated at $300,000. An old man named John Zeimetz and his grand son, Matthew Zeimetz, were burned to death in the town of Worth, hear Chicago, a few nights ago. They were in their dwelling house which took fire from some unknown cause and was rapidly consumed, giving the inmates no chance to escape.

A grand demonstration was held in Council Bluffs, lowa, on the night of the 15th v over the news that the Attorney-General of the United States had decided that that was the initial point of the Union Paeiflc Railway. S In a recent examination for promotions In the Internal Revenue Bureau, at Washington, under the civil service rules, one lady secured a fourth-class Clerkship of SI,BOO, and another a third-class clerkship of $1,600, while of ten other persons appointed to sec-ond-class clerkships, $1,400, six are women. The Falls City (Louisville, Ky.,) Tobacco Bank robbery foots up about $3150,000 in bonds. The bank offers a reward of $50,000 for the return of the bonds, or twenty-five percent, of the amount returned, and no questions asked ; also offers a reward of SSOO each for the capture of the burglars. The new Railway and Warehouse Commissioners of Illinois are H. D. Cooke of McLean County; D. A. Brown, of Bangamon; J. M. Pierson, ’of Madison.George Francis' Train has been pronounced Insane by Dr. William A. Hammond, a New

York physician. ■*» t--Pardons have been issued by the President to John C. Robinson, of Bouth Carolina, and William C. Dupries, of North Carolina, both convicted of Ku-Klux crimes, and sentenced to two years imprisonment In the Albany Penitentiary. The former had served six, the latter eighteen months of their terms. The railroad land grant contest In the Wisconsin Legislature has resulted in the grant being voted to the Milwaukee & Bt. Paul Railroad Company, instead of. the Chicago & Northwestern. ■ ..The Committee of the New York Typographieal Unlon No. 6 having in charge the ..enterprise to erect a life-size statue of Horace Greeley, cast in type metal, are actively engaged in perfecting the arrangements tor /the completion of the statue. Donations of type-metal should bejdirected to “President -Of -New Yprk Typographical Union No. .6, care of John G. Lightbody, No. 34 Beekman street." Donations of money Shonld hS sent to “President New York Typographical

Union No. 0, No. 22 Duane street, NegJorkCity.” The names of ail donors will be entered on the Roll of Honor, to be open for Inspection at the Society’s rooms, No. 22 Duane street. The Rhode Island State Prohibitory Convention on the 17th nominated Henry Howard for Governor; Latimer W. Ballon, Lieu-tenant-Governor; Willard Sayles, AttorneyGeneral; J. M. Adderman, Secretary of State; and Henry Goff, General Treasurer. This ticket is the same as nominated by the Republican Convention, with the exception of the candidates for Lieutenant-Governor and Treasurer. The President on the 17th renominated all the old Cabinet officers, except the Secretary of the Treasury. The appointments are: Harailton Fish, Secretary of -State; W. W Belknap, Secretary o( War; J. A. J. Creswell, Postmaster-General; Columbus Delano, Secretary of the Interior; Geo. M. Robeson, Secretary of the Navy; George H. Williams, Attorney-General; Win. 8. Richardson, Secretary of I the Treasury, vice George S. Boutwell, resigned. The Legislature of Wisconsin has passed a resolution commending their members of Congress who voted against the bill increasing salaries. A disastrous fire occurred at Ogden sburg, N. Y., on the 16tb,the damage being, esti-—, mated at $250,000. Hon; Clarkson N. Potter, -of New York, has declined to receive his increased pay as a member of the Forty-second Congress. St. Patrick’s Day was very generally celebrated by our Irish citizens in all the principal cities and towns throughout the country. ■ No disturbances were reported. The engineers on the St. Lonis, Kansas City & Northern Railway struck on the 15th, in consequence of the refusal of the Company to discharge an engineer in their employ who was not a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Travel on the road was seriously interfered with. It Is said that the Grand Chief Engineer of the Brotherhood discouraged the strike. An Albany (N. Y.) dispatch of the 18th, says that a document had been presented to Governor Dix, sworn to by several jurors in the Foster case, stating that conviction could never have been obtained but for the belief by the jurors that recommendation to mercy would procure a commutation of the sentence to imprisonment for life, and asking the Governor to prevent the execution. The Governor said he would give the document his careful consideration. William H. Clutey, a prominent business man of Pittsburgh, Pa., has recently absconded, leaving liabilities to the amount of about $150,000, of which it has been ascertained that some $70,000 or SBO,OOO was procured by forged paper. Bonds to the value of $168,000 of thePennsylvanla & Western Railway Company were stolen from the Company’s office, in Broad street, New York, on the 15th. Thomas L. James has been appointed Postmaster of New York City, vice Patrick H. Jones, resigned, to take effect April 1. The Bupreme Court of Pennsylvania has decided in favor of the constitutionality of the Local Option law of the State, giving the people of certain wards the right to decide by vote whether or not a license to sell liqnor shall be granted therein. The Democratic nominations in Rhode Island are: For Governor, Charles R. Cutter; Lieutenant Governor, Samuel H. Wales; Secretary of State, Wm. J. Miller; AttorneyGeneral, George W. Bliss; Treasurer, W. P. Congden. Senator Frederick Sawyer, of South Carolina, has been appointed by the President Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, vice Richardson, promoted to the Secretaryship. Hon. John Gofarth has been appointed and confirmed as Assistant Attorney-General. The joint Congressional resolution, congratulating Spain on haying adopted a Republican form of government, has been forwarded by Secretary Fish to Minister Sickles. The resolution was also signed by the President, and accompanied by a letter requesting Its early presentation to thp new Government. The Wisconsin Senate sustained the Gvoernor’s veto of the La Crosse Bridge bill, giving the Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Company the right to bridge the Mississippi River at La Crosse on a different location from that fixed by the United States engineers._The final defeat of the hill was the occasion of great public rejoicing in La Crosse.

President Grant has commuted to imprisonment for life the sentence of ex-policeman O’Brien, who wae convicted of the murder of one Cunningham in Washington City Im August last, and sentenced to be hung. News from the Modoc country on the 20th says that about 600 troops are in the field waiting orders. Canby’s plan seems to be to surround the lava bed and starve the Modocs. For that purpose four posts will be established on the outskirts of the lava sections and on the shore of the lake. A German named Albert Goetzs was brutally murdered in Chicago, on the 18th, by one of a gang of rowdies who entered a saloon where a dance was being held, and grossly insulted a girl who was in company with Goetze, at which the latter attempted to eject him. The murderer escaped. The Uv 8. Attorney-General denies the ststement that he had rendered a decision declaring the eastern terminus of the Union Pacific Railroad to be at Council Bluffs. Near New Albany, Ind., a few nights since, a boy and girl, the children of a colored man named -Reed, were burned to death in their house, in the absence of the father. An older boy escaped from the bunting building.

A West Virginia Romance. —Sarah J. Winemiller, a girl of about seventeen summers, who was convicted of, and sent to the penitentiary for, burning a small log church in one of the smaller counties of the State, has been pardoned by Gov. Jacobs. The manner in which this girl got into the penitentiary is peculiar. She wan enamored of a young man who, unfortunately, was charged with stealing a horse and was put in jail to await a trial thereof. With a confidence in the falsity of the charge against her inamorata and a devotion to him that was remarkable, she proceeded to commit the act for which she was sent up that she might be with him in the penitentiary. But, alas! the man was acquitted last fail when his trial came off, and he has ever since, up to the time of the pardon, been engaged in securing his faithful though rash sweetheart’s release. The facts of this notable romancoare set forth in the petition. The happy result may be imagined. l~