Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1873 — General News Nummary. [ARTICLE]

General News Nummary.

THE OLD WORLD. Urbano Rattazzi, the Italian statesman, died at Frosinone on the morning of the sth, aged 65. The Chamber of Deputies voted national mourning for two weeks because of bis death. The American Department of the Vienna Exposition was opened on the morning of the sth, and steam applied to the machinery. The novelties surpass those from other countries. President White, of Cornell University, and ex-Governor E. D. Morgan, of New York, are Chairmen of the Bureaus of Education and Commerce, respectively. In a circular letter addressed to the representatives of France abroad,—the- Duke de Broglie, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, declares that the difference between the majority in the Assembly and Thiers was on bis domestic policy , which did not offer sufficient guarantees against revolution. The policy of the new Government, he continues, will be moderate at home and pacific abroad. All attempts at revolution will be vigorously opposed without attacking existing institutions. Pietri, formerly private Secretary of the Emperor Napoleon, denies the authenticity of the appeal of the ex-Erapress Eugenie to the -French people, published recently in the London papers. A special from Berlin on the 6th says the Emperor William was seriously sick, and his physicians advised him not to undertake a journey to Vienna. News was received at Madrid on the 7th that a portion of General Velarde’s troops in Barcelona had mutinied, and he had saved himself by flight, and subsequently resigned. The Cortes on the 7th elected Senor Orenz President. Figueras announced to the Cortes his determination to return to them the powers with which the Assembly had invested him as President of the Provisional Government of Spain. He said that the conditions of the tenure of his grave responsibility had become more difficult than heretofore. Senor Pi y Margall was nominated to form a new Cabinet. On the Bth the Cortes passed a resolution proclaiming a Federal Republic, by a vote of 210 yeas against 2 nays. Prince Jerome Napoleon called upon President MacMabon in Paris on the 7th, and left his card. The President returned a message acknowledging the courtesy with his compliments. - ~ A cable dispatch of the 7th says the holera had disappeared from the country adjacent to the Danube. Recent letters from Vienna report that the following United States Commissions had been assigned to arrange and supervise the exhibition in the American Department: Very few of the exhibitors from this country were present: On Mining and Metallurgy—Howard Painter. Agriculture—J. A. Warden. Food —E. M. Horsford. Iron and Steel —G. Mendenhall. Paper—G. W. Silcox. Machinery —G. A. Stanberry. Philosophical Instruments —R. R. Lines. Musical Instruments—N. M. Lowe. Education—J. D. PhUbriek. A New York dispatch states that the Geneva «ward of $15,500,000 is to be paid September 14 of the present year. The Alexandra Palace, near Loncjpn —a magnificent exhibition establishment named In honor of the Prineess of Wales—was destroyed by fire on the 9th. Loss $3,000,000. Several persons were injured. At the municipal election in Lyons, France, held under the act recently passed by the Assembly, 35 out of 36 Radical nominees were chosen. At a secret session of the Spanish Cortes, on the evening of the Bth, Senor Margall proposed a new Ministry. After an excited discussion, and amid much confusion, Margall announced that he would withdraw bis list of Ministers. A great uproar followed, and, after order was restored, the Cortes appealed to Senor Figuerand he finally consented to do so. A vote of confidence in his Ministry was then adopted. A Ministerial circular, addressed to the Prefects of Departments, suggesting confidentially the employment of subsidies and such other means of influenoe as could be secretly brought to bear for the control of the Press, was read in the French Assembly on the 10th. M. Bcule, Minister of the Interior, admitted the authenticity of the circular, and accepted the responsibility for issuing the same. After a protracted scene of confusion and excitement, a motion supporting the Government was carried by a vote of 389 yeas against 315 nays. The result shows that the coalition of the Conservatives was still unbroken. A report was current in Paris on the 10th, that Count Von Arnim, the German Ambassador, had been recalled, because he made unnecessary calls upon President MacMahou. The Spanish Ministry tendered their resignations on the 10th, and during the afternoon the Cortes entrusted to Senor Figueras the organization of a new Ministry. After consultation with his friends and with leading members of Cortes, Benor Figueras reported that he was unable to form a Cabinet. Senor Orense has re signed the Presidency of the Constituent .Cades The New York Daily OrapMe of a recent date contains an extract from a private letter) dated Rome, May 15, which gives a rumor, prevalent in that city, that Pope Pius IX. had died some days previous, and that his place was filled by an old and astute priest named Abbate Minati, who is said to bear a striking resemblance to the Popa. The letter says: “The Pope died, but, instead of their announcing this fact to the public by bulletins from the Vatican, they began to inform the outside world that the Holy Father was getting better, and finally that he was quite well again, the fact being that the remains of Pius IX. were hidden away in some of the secret recesses of the Vatican cellars, and that Abbate Minati quietly stepped into bis place.” Several French officials tendered their resignation on the Uth, in consequence of the circular issued by the Minister oT the Interior suggesting the subsidizing of the Press. Commissioner Schultz, General Van Buren’s successor at Vienna, In a recent letter says the American Department of the Vienna Exposition would be in complete order by the 15th of June, which could not be the case with that of any other nation, not excepting England, which had the advantage of a corps of workmen brought to Vienna to hasten to completion and perfect that department. The Austrian Government, lie says, should have taken another year to prepare for the Exposition. Not only were the gronnds not finished, but ail those facilities which they had promised were incomplete. THE NEWWORLD. ~ Gold closed in New York on the Uth at mx@llT*. Information was received in Washington on

the sth that Santa Rosa, an American citizen who had been imprisoned in Cuba, had been released. The Polaris survivors arrived in Washington on the sth, and were interviewed J>y the Secretary of the Navy. The President, Secretary of the Interior and General Sherman, in a consultation on the sth, came to the conclusion that the qnestion as to what should be done with the Modoc prisoners, whether they should be tried by military commission or remitted to the civil courts, would be submitted to the Attorney-General by the military authorities for his opinion, which will govern the law in the case. Governor Straw, of New Hampshire, was inaugurated at Concord on the sth. He recommends the Local Option law as the best method of restraining intemperance. In the recent election for Judges of the Supreme and Circuit Courts in Illinois the candidates supported by the Farmers’ Conventions were generally successful. In the Fifth District, where the most bitter feeling seemed to exist, Judge Alfred M. Craig, of Knox County, was elected to the Supreme bench by, a majority of over 2,000 over Judge Lawrence, the present incumbent. Governor Grover, of Oregon, has ordered General Ross to deliver the Lost River murderers (Modoc Indians) in his possession to the custody of the Sheriff of Jackson County, and all other captives to the commanding officer of the United States forces in the Lake Basin. President Grant and his family and General Babcock left Washington on the 6th for Long Branch. Wright, the Washington murderer, who was to have been hanged on Decoration Day, but was respited out of respect to its commemorative character, was executed on the 6th. Hon. John Printiss, the oldest printer and newspaper publisher in New England, and perhaps in the United States, died at Keene, N. H., on the 6th, in the 96th year of his age. He established the New Hampshire Sentinel in 1799, and conducted it for forty-nine years. A report was sent from New York on the 6th that Victoria C. Woodhull had died suddenly of heart disease. A subsequent dispatch stated that she was not dead, but in an unconscious state, and could not recover. An enterprising individual writing to the Government from Tiffin, 0., has offered to pay $60,000 for the privilege of exhibiting Captain Jack throughout the country during sixty days. The jury in the case of Mrs. Charlotte Lamb, the Wisconsin poisoner, has found her guilty of murder. The recent Jubilee in Chicago, in commemoration of the re-building of the city, was in all respects a success. Over 50,000 visitors from different sections of the country were in the city on that occasion. The musical concerts were largely attended. A dispatch from General Davis’ camp on the sth says preparations had been made by General Davis for the hanging of about a dozen of the worst of the Modoc gang, when an order was received from Washington to hold the prisoners. This stopped the contemplated execution. The feeling in camp was one of profound disgust at,the result. -_ . News was received In San Francisco on the 6th of an outbreak among the Apaches at the San Carlos Agency, in Arizona. Lieutenant Almy, of the Fifth Cavalry, had been shot and killeth and an attempUwas made on the life of Agent Larrabee. At Raleigh, N. C., on the 6th, two murderers, Griffin and Mordecai, after preparing for the gallows, and while at their devotions, received commutations of their sentences to imprisonment for life. A large crowd had gathered to witness their execution. A Washington special of the 7th says: “From statements thus far made in the Folaris investigation, the separation of the vessel from tho ice-floe was purely accidental, instead of being effected with premeditation; that there is not the slightest reason, from the testimony thus far taken, to suspect any poisoning, mutiny or heartless desertion, and that Esquimaux Joe never told any such story as has been attributed to him in regard to the death of Captain Hall.” The opinion of Attorney-General Williams was announced on the 7th, to the effect that such of the Modoes as are charged with offenses against the recognized law of war, might be tried and punished by a military commission. The War Department would, in accordance with this opinion, send instructions to General Davis, through General Scofield. ' A large portion of the Hyde Park woolen mill, near Boston, has been destroyed by fire. Loss, $500,000; insurance, $400,000. About a dozen stores were burned in Toledo a few nights ago. Loss about $200,000. The Springfield (Ill.) State Hegister of the 7th, gives the following list of Circuit Judges elected at the late Judicial election in Illinois. The list embraces all the Districts excepting the Eighth: First District—William Brown, of Winnebago. Second—T. D. Morphy, of McHenry. Tbird-W. W. Heaton, of Lee. Foorth—Sylvanus Wilcox, of Kane. Fifth—G. W. Pleasants, of Rock Island. Sixth—E. S. Leland, of LaSalle. Seventh—J. Mcßoberts, of Will. Ninth—Joseph W. Cochrane, of Peoria. Tenth—Joseph Sibley, of Adams. Eleventh—C. L. Hlgbee, of Pike: Twelfth—John Bams, of Marshall. Thirteenth—N. J. PUteburv, of Livingston. Fourteenth—Thomas F. Tipton, of McLean. Fifteenth—C. L. Davis, of Vermilion. Sixteenth—C. B. Smith, of Champaign. Seventeenth—Lyman Lacey, of Mason. Eighteenth—Cyrns Epler, of Morgan. Nineteenth—Charles 8. Lane, of Sangamon. Twentieth—H. M. Vandever, of Christian. Twenty-first—James C. Allen, of Crawford. Twentn-second—William H. Snyder, of 8L Clair. Twenty-third—Amos Watts, of Washington. Twenty-fourth—T. B. Turner, of Jefferson. Twenty-fifth—Monroe C. Crawford, of Union. Twenty-sixth—David J. Baker, of Alexander. A fire doing $170,000 damage occurred in Cincinnati on the Sth, burning 1,400 barrels ol coal oil, twenty-five freight cars, mostly loaded, a lumber yard with 3,000,000 feet, chfefiy hard lumber, and seventeen dwellings, most of them small frame cottages. Mrs. Boddy and Mrs. Scheera, two women widowed by the Modoes, were at General Davis’ camp a few days ago for the purpose of identifying the murderers of their husbands. They recognized Hooka Jim and Steamboat Frank as having been concerned in the massacre. These two Indians had turned Btate’s evidence and assisted in the capture of others of their gang, and were consequently at liberty and armed. The women became excited, and, losing all control over their feelings, began crying and started In for desperate work. Mrs. Scheera drew a pistol and started for Steamboat Frank, and Mrs. Boddy drew a knife and dashed at Hooka Jim. General Davis stepped in and secured both weapons. During the struggle the General received a slight cut in the palm of the hand and near the thumb. Hooka and Steamboat stood like statues. Neither spoke or offered to resist A Nashville (Tenn.) dispatch of the Sth says it was very evident that the disease which some call cholera was subsiding Fewer cases were reported, and milder. A Washington dispatch of the 9th announces _i; i ~

that General Schofield had been instructed by telegraph to appoint a Military Commission to try the Modoc prisoners. The residence of Mr. Joseph Dalrymple, near Goshen, Ind., caught fire one night recently, and was entirely consumed. The bodies of Mrs. Dalrymple and two children were burned to cinders.

Dispatches from Boyle’s Camp, received in San Francisco on the 9th, relate the particulars of the mgssacre of some Modoe prisoners, supposed to have been done by some Oregon volunteers. On the morning of the 7th, James Fairchild and about a dozen other men left Fairchild’s Ranche, Cottonwood Creek, with seventeen Modoc captives, women and children, including Shacknasty Jim, Bogus Charley; Tehee Jack, Pony and Little John. The Indians were in a wagon drawn by fqpr mules. At the crossing of Lost River the party encountered the Oregon volunteers, under command Of Captain Hiser. The soldiera gathered about the wagon and questioned Fairchild, who told them that the Modoes were all Hot Creeks, except Little John, and that there were no charges against them. Fairchild undertook to push on) to Boyle’s Camp, and the volunteers retired to the camp near Crawley’s. On the road he noticed two men ahead, riding to Rocky Point, as if to Intercept him. When the team approached, one presented a needle-gun at Fairchild and ordered him to dismount Every male Indian prisoner was Ihen deliberately shot and killed. The warriors shot were, unarmed. They were not charged with murder. The news of this massacre was received in San Francisco with surprise and indignation. A New Orleans dispatch of the 9th says the cholera was thought to be on the increase in that city, though there was no marked increase in the mortality. The recent Tennessee Industrial Exposition, hold at Nashville, is said to have been a great success. A dispatch from Washington to the Associated Press oh the 10th says: “The reports of the proceedings of the Board of Inquiry at Vienna, while they do not impugn the honesty of General Van Buren, show his incapacity for the business placed in his charge, and hence the ‘irregularities’ which led to his suspension.” The New York Court of Appeals have unanimously granted Stokes a new trial. The lower Court is held to have erred in charging the jury that the law presumed murder from the fact of killing, throwing the burden of defense on the accused, and in the exclusion of gome testimony offered, and the admission of certain other evidence. A large fire occurred at Newburgh, N. Y., on the 9th. Loss $250,000. The Now York Grand Jury have found an indictment against young Walworth, the parricide, of murder in the first degree. • By an explosion of fire-damp at the Henry Clay Colliery, near Shamokin, Pa., on the 10th, a number of miners lost their lives. There were fifty men in the slope at the time of the explosion, ttoty-fiy&Jbf whom were known to have escaped." Up Vo ten o’clock ten dead bodies had been takers out. The sixth annual session of the lowa Press Association met at Cedar Rapids on the 10th, and was largely attended. Several resolutions were passed, among others, one condemning the acceptance of free passes from railroads. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Judge E. H. Thayer, of the Clinton Age; Vice-President, John Mahin, of the Muscatine Journal; Secretary, A. C. Swalm, pf the Jefferson Bee; Treasurer, Walt Parrott; Executive Committee, J. P. Allen,-of the Clinton Bee; Andy Felt, of the Nashua Poet, and L. B. Raymond, of the Cherokee Leader. In New York City, Dr. Julius E. Julian has been sentenced to one year’s imprisonment and to pay SSOO fine for sending obscene publications through the mails. George Edmonds, a coal miner of Steubenville, Ohio, recently bought a twenty-five pound can of blasting powder and put it in a cupboard in his dwelling. While he was at work and his wife out on an errand, his children found the can and set fire to it. Three of them were killed outright, and the fourth go badly injured that it could not live. The children were all under ten years of age. The house was almost destroyed. ,At a recent term of the United States Circuit Court at Des Moines, lowa, Judge Love dismissed the action, commenced last fall, against.C. Augustus Haviland, of the Soldiers' Friend. It seems Mr. Haviland had paid out $9.75 in the prosecution of the pension claim, and received only $9.70. According to a Memphis dispatch of the 10th, the cholera was undoubtedly increasing in that city. The interments that day were 18, against 11 the day before, while the undertakers had received, at six o’clock, orders for 14 for the 11th. The Postmaster-General has decided not to abrogate the postal-card contract, but to give the contractors Ume to obtain better paper and continue the work. The remains of the late Minister Orr were received in New York on the 11th, and were escorted by the Knights Templar and a detachment of police to the Governor’s room at the City Hall, where they were to lay in state. The New Hampshire Legislature has chosen the following State officers: Secretary of State, B. F. Prescott, of Concord; State Treasurer, Solon A. Carter, of Keene. Frank H. Walworth was arraigned in the Court of Oyer and ’{erminer at New York on the 11th, on the charge of having murdered his father. He pleaded “Not guilty.” Dr. Lewis E. Meyers, a dentist of Middletown, N. Y., while drunk recently, stabbed his father in the breast, near the heart, with a sharp instrument. It was thought the wound would prove fatal. A reeent Issue of the Chicago Journo? says: “In every instance where, previous to the recent judicial elections in this Btate, the farmers and anti-monopolists nominated a distinctive candidate of their own, and then united in his support at the polls, the ‘farmers’ candidate’ for Judge was elected.” It is reported that Captain Jack, in an interview with General Davis, said: “Bogus Charley and Shacknasty Jim killed General Canby. Allen David, the Klamath chief, advised them to kill General Csnby, so they did it. lam telling the truth. I did not kill him. I had it done, but did not do ik I don’t lift. Bring the men that saw me do this thing. I want to face them. If I had my chains off I would tell ail the men who did these things.” * The massacre of the Modoes is denounced in unmeasured terms by the Oregon papers. The Illinois Press Association commenced Ms ninth annual session at Quiney on At the opening of the session there were about fifty editors present. The newly-elected officers of the Masonie Grand Lodge of Wisconsin are as follows: B. Delos Palford, of Mineral Point, Grand Mae-

ter; H. E. Hubbard, of LaCroese, Bentor Gr*nd Warden; J. 8. Burroughs, of Fond dor Lac, Junior Grand Warden; W. H. Htoer, of Fond du Lac, Grand Treasurer; Geo. E. Haskinson, of Green Bay, Grand Secretary. The Ohio State Medical Society, at Columbus, on the 11th, selected Toledo as their next place of meeting, and elected H. J. Harriek, of Alvond, President; M. J. Conklin, of Dayton, Secretary; H. Edwards, of Lancaster, Assistant Secretary; and 8. 8, Gray, of Plqua, Librarian and Treasurer. In the case of Dr. West, the alleged murderer of a negro in Delaware, a report of which was published at the time, the jury brought in a verdict of not guilty, on the ground of selfdefense. -Joshua Nicholson and his accomplice, Hallahaa, have been sentenced, at Annapolis, Md., to lie hung on the Ist of August, for the murder of Mrs. Lampley. The ehelera at Nashville was abating on the 11th. There were twenty-four interments at Memphis on that day, against eighteen the day before.