Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1873 — General flews summary. [ARTICLE]

General flews summary.

„ THE OLD WOBLD. A telegram from Barcelona, 22d, gays that General Valarde has issued a proclamation calling all males between fourteen and sixteen years of age into the Republican columns, and threatening the infliction of heavy penalties upon all municipalities attempting to thwart its operation. President Thiers and his Ministry have re signed, aiid Marshal MacMalion has been elected President of the French Republic. The important issue involved in the controversy in the Assembly was on the definite establishment of the Republic, a measure introduced by the Government and sustained by the Liberals. The Right, or. Conservative side of the Assembly—consisting of Bonapartists, Orleanists and Legitimists—united in opposition to this movement, and when a final vote was reached on the 24th, the Left was voted down by 360 to. 844, and President Thiers immediately resigned, his resignation being accepted, the vote being 868 for acceptance to 839 against. The vote by which Marshal MacMahon was chosen was 390. This change in the Administration was accomplished without any disturbance, and was generally acquiesced in. MacMahon accepted the position of President in the following words: “X will obey the will of the Assembly, the depository of national sovereignty. It is a heavy responsibility, but, with God's aid and the devotion of the army, I will continue the work of liberating the territory and restoring order, and will maintain . tranquility and the principles on which society rests To this I pledge mv word as an honest man and a soldier.” A cable dispatch of the 34th says the Carlists denied the reported butchery of surrendered volunteers, but announeed that they were held subject to exchange for Carlists. The following is the text of President MacMahon’s address to the Prefects of Paris: “I have been called, through the confidence of the National Assembly, to the Presidency of the Republic. No immediate change will be made in the existing laws, regulations and institutions. I rely upon material order, and I count upon your vigilance and upon your patriotic assistance,” President MacMahon also sent a message to the Assembly, containing the following: "I am animated by respect for your wishes, and will always scrupulously execute them. The National Assembly had two great tasks: the liberation of the territory and the restoration of order. The first was ably conducted by my predecessor, with heroic patience. The country and I rely on you to accomplish the other. I shall follow the foreign policy of my predecessor. I wißh for peace and the reorganization of the army, desiring only to restore our strength and regain for Fram e her rank among the nations. The home policy will be resolutely conservative. The Administration must be imbued with a conservative spirit, appoint to office respectors of law, defend society against faction, and stand as a sentinel to sec that your sovereign will is obeyed in its integrity." The new French Ministry is officially announced as follows-: Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Duke de Broglie; Minister of Justice, Erroul; Minister of the Interior, Bcule; Minister of Finance, Pierre Magnc; Minister of War, General deCissey; Minister of Marine, Admiral D’Homoy; Miuistcr of Public Instruction and Worship, Balbie; Miuister of Public Works, De Scilligny; Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, Bovellcrie. A fire in Berkeley Square, London, a few days ago, burned six persons to death, and six others were injured by falling walls, The Pope made a speech at Rome on the 27th, in which he said he had ever prayed for France, but that he would now pray with greater confidence, for the election of Marshal MacMahon to the head of that country was a guarantee of order and justiec to'civilization, which wag menaced on all sides. Ex-President Thiers took his seat in the French Assembly on the 27th. A recent fire in Bedford,. Canada, destroyed the greater portion of the town. Lieutenant Frederick Grant will, it is said, accompany General Stanley on his Yellowstone expedition through the Sioux country. No civilians or correspondents will accompany the expedition, and the scientific corps has been reduced to five men. By a boiler explosion which occurred in a crowded workshop in Belgium on the 28 th,fourteen persons were Tailed outright and many injured, some of whom would die.

THE NEW WORLD. Gold closed in New York on the 28th at 118X@U8%. President Grant Issued the following proclamation on the 22d: Whereas, Under the pretence that William P. Kellogg, the present Executive of Louisiana, and the officers associated with him in the State administration, were not duly elected, certain turbulent and disorderly pereons.. have combined together with force and arms to resist the laws and constituted authorities of said State; and, Whereas, It has been duly certified by the proper local authorities, and judicially determined by the iuferior and Superior Courts of said Slate, that the same officers are entitled to hold their offices respectively, and executo and discharge the functions thereof ; and, Whereas, Congress, at the last session, upon due consideration of the subject, tactitly recognized said Executive and his associates, then as now in office, by refusing to take any action with respect thereto; and. Whereas, It is provided in the Constitution of the ttilted States that the United States shall protect every State in thiH Union on application of the Legislature or of the Executive when the Legislature cannot be convened, against domestic violence; and, Whereas, It is provided in the laws of the United States, that in all cases of insurrection in any State, or of obstruction to the laws thereof, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States on application of the Legislature of sneh State,- or the Executive when the Legislature cannot be convened, to call for the military of any other State or States, or to employ such part of the land and naval forces as shall be judged necessary for the purpose of suppressing snch Insurrections or causing the laws to be duly executed; and, Whereas, The Legislature of said State is not now in session, and cannot be convened in lime to iSeet the present emergency, and the Executive of said State, under Sec. 4of Art. 4 of the Constitution of the United States and the laws passed in pursuance thereof, has therefore madp application to me for such part of the military force of the United States as may be necessary and adequate to protect such State and citizens thereof againßt domestic violence, and to enforce the execution of the laws; and. Whereas, It is required that, whenever it may be necessary In the judgment of the President to use military force for the purpose aforesaid, he shall forthwith, by proclamation, command such insurgeuts to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective homes within a limited time; now therefore, I, Ulysses 8. Grant, President of the United States, do hereby make proclamation and command the said turbulent and disorderly persons to disperse and retire peacefully to their respective abodes within, twenty days from this date, and hereafter to submit themselves to the laws and constituted authorities of said State; and I invoke the aid and co-operation of all good citizens thereof to uphold the law, and preserve the public peace. In wituess whereof I have hereunto set my hgnd arid caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this 22d day of May. in the year of our Lord 1873. and of the 'ln- , dependence of the United Slates the ninety-' seventh. •» .. * '-■ U. S. Grant. By the President: 3. C. Bancroft Davis, Acting Secretary of State, The cases of Busan B. Anthony and fourteen other women who voted in Rochester, N. Y„ and of the Inspectors of Election, Indicted for receiving and counting the votca of the women, came up on the 22d in the United States District Court in that city. All the Indictments were ordered to betried at the June term of , the Circuit Court at Canandaigua, and the defendants were released on their own recognizance, r v ... ■

Judge Fancher, of New York, on the 22d dismissed the writ of habeas corpus in the case of George Francis Train, on the ground that he could not go behind the record; but suggested that on a proper application an order could be granted requiring an examination as to the mental condition of Train, before he goes to the Utica Insane Asylum under the order of Judge Davis. The remains of General Canby reached Indianapolis on the 22d, and the final funeral services occurred on the 23d. “The New York & Chicago Railway Company” is the title of a new railway company just formed, with a capital stock of *2,600,000. It is a consolidation of several companies which have already constructed the wholfror part of their roads in Indiana, Ohio, etc. The Ohio Republican State Central Committee have chosen the following Executive Committee: C. C. Walcut, Chaftman; Rodney Foos, Secretary; Isaac Welsh, Treasurer; Committeemen, James Williams, F. B. Pond, and J. C. Donaldson. Advices from the Modoc country on the 22d report that Captain Jack and his band had joined the Pitt River Indians, who are their allies, and that our troops and the Warm Spring Indians were still in pursuit of them. In a skirmish with the Modocs on the 19th, they killed five of the savages and captured ten of their squaws and papooses. The Congressional excursionists arrived at New Orleans on the 22d, where they met with a flattering reception. All the excursionists speak in the highest terms of the courtesies extended to them- along the route, - and are especially enthusiastic about their reception and entertainment at Galveston. The Dominion House of Parliament has passed a resolution for the admission of Prince Edward’s Island into the Canadian Confederation on the first of July. The number of miners who lost their lives in the recent explosion in the Nova Scotia colliery is fifty-nine. ; Judge Charles P. Daly, of New York, President of the Geographical Society, speaking of the death of Captain Hall, of the Polaris Arctic Expedition, says that the letter-writer who started the poisoning story on tho expression of a suspicion by an Esquimaux would not have done so had he known the breed. They do not know what truth means. “Joe” is spoken of as a well-meaning man, but Hans is a man of very bad reputation, and was near being hanged by Dr. Ilayes on one of his expeditions, so convincing was the proof that he had been the cause of the death of Mr Sontag. Judge Daly is not inclined to accept as true the stories told of Captain Buddington by those who have been rescued, and he alludes to the circumstance that Tyson and Myers were the men who were reported as showing insubordination at Disco. Captain Hall, he says, however, was not capable of leading such an expedition, and did not eare so much that the North Pole should be reached as that he should reach it.

A St. Paul (Minn.) dispatch of the 28d, says William Seeger had pleaded guilty to articles of impeachment, and was formally sentenced to expulsion from office. News received from the Modoc war on the 28d, announces the surrender (to General Davis) of fifty-six men, women and children of Captain Jack’s tribe, including fifteen warriors, among the number “Hooka Jim,” “ Bogus Charley,” “Shacknasty Jim,” “Curlyhead Doctor," “ Frank,” and others, the best fighting men Captain Jack had. Captain Jack’s whereabouts were unknown. It was thought be bad twenty warriors with him, and was in theoPit River Mountains. News was received in Washington on the 2tld that Colonel McKenzie had made an attack on the camp of the Kickapoo and Lipon Indians, about eighty miles from Fort Clark, Texas. The Indian loss was nineteen killed and two wounded, and a former chief of the Lipons and forty-one women and children were captured, besides two villages and accumulated property destroyed. Colonel McKenzie's loss was three men wounded, one mortally. A Washington special to a New York paper says the President had stated that Colonel McKenzie’s raid agains* the Indians into Mexican territory was made in pursuance of orders, and that our Government is determined to stop outrages on the Texas frontier at all hazards. A most terrific tornado passed over a portion of Washington County, lowa, on the afternoon of the 22d, tearing down houses and fences, uprooting trees, and scattering de-sttuetion.along-ita.pathway. A dispatch from Washington says that the whirlwind was about half a mile in width, and that it resembled a huge balloon in shape. A number of persons were killed by falling timbers, and by being caught lip by the storm and dashed violently to the earth- The damage to property is immense. The tornado tore a schoolhouse to pieces, and carried a girl fourteen years of age about a quarter of a mile awav. When found she wag smashed to a jelly. Miss Bmith, the teacher, and six or eight scholars were hurt, some badly. Eight persons were known to have been killed. Up to the 25th four hundred and twentyeight bodies had been recovered from the wreck of the steamship Atlantic, leaving 118 passengerß unaccounted for. The graves of Confederate soldier* at Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, were decorated with flowers on the 34th by the ladies of the Monumental Association. Two or three thousand people visited the grounds. The Grand Jury at Dayton, Ohio, have reported bills of indictment against Mrs. Earhart and her son Michael for poisoning the Hera family, of Germantoivu, Ohio, on the 22d of April last, with intent to kill. Levi Sauls was hanged at Marlon Court House, S. C., on the 23d, for the murder of Noah Button on February 10.

There has recently been a disastrous failure in the lumber trade Twelve firms, nine of which are located in New York State, one in Cleveland and two in Chicago, which had entered into a combination in the lumber trade, have auepended. Total liabilities, about ft),000,000. - From the Ist «f April to the 19tli of May of the present year, <500,561 immigrants landed at the port of New York. An order was Issued on the 24th, by Judge Fancher, requiring the sheriff to produce George Francis Train before him on the 28th, to inquire into his sanity. Fulton, Warren and McDonough Counties, 111., have been visited by a severe wind and train storm, by which much damage was done to property, and several lives were destroyed. The tornado street over a track forty to one hundred rods in width, between Swan Creek, in Warren County, and Avon, in Fulton County. Many buildings were demolished—indeed everything was destroyed in the track storm—houses, bams, fence*, orchards, cjtc. • A telegram from Council Bluffs, lowa, 36th announces the arrest at Ely Station, on the

Burlington, Cedar Rftpids & Quincy Railroad, of a person supposed without doubt to be the old man Bender, Implicated In the horrible Kansas murders. The examination of Col. Deßlanc and others, of-St. Martinsville, La., charged with conspiracy, etc., under the Ku-klux laws, took place at New Orleans on the 26th. The Commissioner ordered _ their discharge, after hearing the evidence adduced, on the ground that there was no proof to justify their detention. Several physicians, members of the Massachusetts Medical Society, have been tried before a Board convened for that purpose, charged with practicing homoeopathy, and their expulsion recommended. It Is stated in a Washington dispatch that no official confirmation of Colonel McKenzie’s raid into Mexico had been received there, and that even if the reports published were true, there was no fear of trouble with Mexico in consequence. At Shadyside, near Pittsburgh, Pa., a few days since, while two little girls were playing together, one of them applied a lighted match to the mouth of a can filled with carbon oil. An explosion followed, and in an instant the clothing of the children were saturated with oil. ’’TThey were enveloped in flames and burned to a crisp. James W. Wallack, the well-known actor died on the 24th in a sleeping-car on the trail between Aiken and Richmond, while returning from a visit to the former place for his health, He was fifty-four years of age. A new Local Option bill, proposing to submit to a vote of the people in every town or. district the question of licensing liquor-sellers, but excepting fermented liquors from the operations of the prohibition in eases where licenses should be refused, has been defeated by the New York Assembly, by a vote of 50 to 47. There being no choice for Lieutenant-Gov-ernor by the people of -Rhode Island, the Legislature elected E. C. Van Zaudt, the Republican candidate at the late election. The fourth annual gathering of the New England Woman Suffrage Association, in session in Boston ou the 27th, attracted less attention in point of numbers than usual. Julia Ward Howe presided. The speakers included many veterans in the cause. The Massachusetts Legislature was vigorously denounced for its recent vote giving the suffrage advocates leave to withdraw.— 4 A case of yellow fever was reported at New York City on the 27th.

A meeting of the colored supporters of Governor Kellogg was held in New Orleans on the 26th, at which resolutions were adopted assarting that Kellogg was legally elected, and that his supporters were slanderously abused and deprived of their rights last fall. It was determined to send some of the ablest colored orators North to lay before the people the facts relating to the difficulties in Louisiana, and a committee was also appointed to collect evidence regarding the election from every parish in the State.

Neosho County, Kansas, has recently been visited by a destructive tornado. Tbe storm desolated a tract of country a half mile in width and six miles in length. Two houses were lifted in theair and blowntoaloins. Six persons'" were killed outright, six mortally wounded and fifteen dangerously injured. One little girl was carried onc.-ionrth of a mile and drowned in the creek. Fersons were stripped of their clothing, and birds of their feathers. Horses, cattle and hogs were killed. Fourteen families were left entirely destitute. Major George A. Forsyth, of General Sheridan’s staff, who has recently returned from a trip up tbe Yellowstone, reports a complete success in establishing tbe fact of the navigability of that stream, for steamboats of the largest size, from its mouth to tbe mouth of Powder River, a distance of two hundred and thirty-five miles. With some Inexpensive improvements, -tho largest steamboats can penetrate sixty or eighty miles farther. —The Masonic Grand Lodge of Indiana met at Indianapolis on the 27th. The number of lodges in the State is 472, and the total membership at the close of the year was 26,216. The family of Frederick Buckey, of Jersey City, consisting of husband, wife and two children, were recently poisoned, it is supposed, from eating partially-cooked ham. Tbe wife died and Buckey was not expected to live. A committee was appointed by the Northern Presbyterian General Assembly, recently in session at Baltimore, to confer with a committee from tho Reformed Church, concerning a union of the two churches. Two men entered the bank at Saint Genevieve, Mo., on the 27tb, forced the cashier to open the safe, took therefrom $3,500, and then made him accompany them to the outskirts of the town, where they rejoined several companions who were holding their horses, which they mounted and rode away. A son of the President of the bank was standing near the building when the men overpowered the cashier, and was fired upon by the robbers and' slightly wounded. A dispatch from San Francisco, 28th, says: “Bogus Charley,” “Shacknasty Jim,” “Hooka Jim,” “Steamboat" and “Frank,” after a conference with Gen. Givis and a ride through a portion of the lava-beds, had been furnished with four days’ rations, horses, and Springfield rifles, and started oil the trail of G'apt. Jack. The proposition was made by them to kill him or capture him with the rest of the band. General Davis was satisfied with their loyalty, A $75,000 fire has occurred at Vaidcn, Miss., distroylng tbe business portion of the town. It is stated In a Washington Special that Hie Secretary of the Treasury has decided to reduce the outstanding legal-tenders to $356,000,000 by June. j The Prince Edward’s Island Legislature has unanimously passed resolutions accepting the terms of union with the Dominion of Canada. Judge Fancher, of New York, gave au order on the 28th for an investigation into the sanity of George Francis Train. Y ■ Levi Soules was hanged at Marion Court House, South Carolina, oh the UTth, for the murder of Noah Suttou on the 10th of February last. - > . .. ■ " m, » »i I '' ■ ■ ■, —The plan recently promulgated by the Government of Japan presages a system of education superior, perhaps, to any other in (he world. The country is divided into eight districts, and in each of these districts there is to be established a college. Each district is subdivided into thirty-two sections, each of which is to have a high school and a large number of primary schools. The whole number of schools that is provided for is aver 50,000. Loans are to be made to needy Students, and a certain number of prize scholar” will be sent abroad every yearto complete their education at the expense of the Government. See, in another column, the advertisement headed "I kelp any mom.” j <*