Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1873 — THE NEW WORLD. [ARTICLE]

THE NEW WORLD.

Gold closed in New York on the 30th at 115%. A delegation of prominent South Carolinians had an interview with Attorney-General Williams on the 24th, and urged that tlie further prosecution of Ku-Klux offenders in the South be discontinued, as that organization was broken up, and a cessation of prosecutions would have a conciliatory effect upon all classes of that section. They also urged that those convicted and serving out Jtjerras of sentence be pardoned. The At-torney-General, in reply, said that Instructions had already been issued to stop the prosecutions against tho Ku-Klux offenders, except in very aggravated cases, and some of those convicted had already been pardoned. It was the policy of the President to pardon them all, keeping the most aggravated . cases, however, until the last.

Governor Grover, of Oregon, has ordered an election on Monday, Ooctober'l3, to fill the vacancy in Congress daused By the recent death of Hon. Joseph G. Wilson. The Farmers' Union estimates that tlie wheat crop of Minnesota this year will yield a surplus of 30,000,000 bushels for export. The Union advises the farmers to market all tlicir wheat as soon as possible for fear of still lower prices. A State Temperance Convention met at Jefferson City, Missouri, on the 24th. Dr. W. S. Holland was elected President, and Rev. J. Wesley Johnson, Secretary. Dr. William Ross, Grand Worthy Patriarch and Lecturer, of Illinois, was present, and delivered an address, in which he defended the Illinois Temperance law and urged an organization in Missouri. The farmers of Dodge County, Wisconsin, met in convention on the 24th, and adopted a preamble setting forth the grievances of the agriculturists of the country, and adopted a resolution inviting their* %cthren throughout the State to meet in convention at Milwaukee, on Thursday, August 21, 1873, at ten o’clock a. m. “for consultation and such other action as may be deemed best for our interest and that of the State, and to that end we recommend that each Grange in the State be entitled to three delegates, to be elected by each Grange and Commissioner, under seal, signed by the proper officers.” Seven cholera deaths at Mount Vernon, Ind., on the 24th. None in CincinnatiOne thousand Mormons arrived at Salt Lake on the 24th, from Europe. At Logansport, Ind., oh the 24th, Miss, Lizzie Bures, a servant girl, employed at the Freeman House, attempted to start a fire in the stove with coal oil. Her clothes caught fire, and she was seriously, and probably fatally, burned. A Des Moines (Iowa) dispatch of the 24th says the new Rock Island grain tariff for the lowa Division reduces the prices up to that station. West of there they are slightly advanced. James M. McDonald, Vice-President of the Pacific Bank, is the Democratic candidate for Mayor of San Francisco. A called meeting of members of the Republican party opposed to the nomination of Gen. Butler for Governor was held in Boston a few days ago. Among those present were H. L. Dawes, E. R. Hoar, George T. Hoar, Speaker Sanford, H. H. Coolidge, Ex-Speaker Jewell, Adin Thayer, J. M. Forbes, and others. The meeting was called to order by Judge Hoar, who emphatically denounced the salary grab, and pronounced himself as willing to do all in his power to prevent the State from being carried for the author of that measure. A committee of three was appointed to draw up an address to the people of the State. An adjourned meeting of Railroad Managers, Superintendents, and ticket and passenger agents, to consider commissions, free passes, etc., was held in St. Louis on the 24th. Resolutions were adopted declaring that no more free passes or half-fare tickets should be issued after August 1, except A<r officers, agents aud employes of roads. Twenty-one roads were represented, two-thirds of which arePweil ofthe Mississippi River: According to a Minneapolis telegram of the 25th it was then generally conceded_by parties on.both sides of the boundary that the recapture of Gordon was effected on American toil. ' ~ According to a dispatch of the 25tli, the police of St. Louis have reason to believe that the robbers of the lowa railroad train are the same that robbed tlie bank in St. Genevieve, Mo., last May, the Russellville (Ky.) bank two years ago, and the Gallatin (Mo.) bank, and also committed several other bold robberies. The Coroner’s jury in the case of Rafferty, the engineer killed on the wrecked railroad train, have found that he came to his death by reason of the train on tlie 0. R. I. & P. R. R., being thrown from the track, between Anita and Adair, lowa, without any negligence on the part of said Company, by the misplacement of tlie rail, with felonious intent, by a certaiu number of masked men to us unknown; and wc further find that tlie said John Rafferty refused to abandon liis train when apprised of danger, aud died manfully at his post.” A disastrous fire occurred in Baltimore on the 25th. It broke out in a four-story brick planing mill, and in » short time the building was enveloped in flames, and the boilers of the engine exploded. A stiff breeze drove the flames to the adjoining buildings, and it was not long before the four blocks bounded by Liberty street on the east, Saratoga on the north, Howard on tlie west, and Lexington on the south, and intersected by Park and Clay streets, were each ablaze, and •' several' fine buildings on Mulberry street bad taken tire from the burning brands hurled by the wind. Ten blocks of buildings were destroyed, mostly dwellings, before the fire was extinguished. The aggregate loss was variously estimated at from $500,000 to sl,000,000. Recent fires on Long Island-burned over an area of at least fifty square miles. The German settlement, called Bohemianville, was swept entirely away, and three young children unable to escape perished in the Uames. An application has been made to Governor Dix and a petition signed by some of the most prominent men iu the State of New York to grant young Walworth a pardon. An ordinance to prohibit the sale of liquor on Sunday was successfully enforced in Cleveland on the 27th. Judge Vinton, of the Tippecanoe (Ind.) Circuit Court, has rendered an elalxirate decision, in which lie concludes that the railway act passed at the special session of tlie State Legislature, requiring railway companies to issue stock paid for by corporations to taxpayers, etc., is unconstitutional, aud is therefore null and void. He holds that the stock is the property of the whole people, and is held in trust by the County Commissioners. An appeal will be taken to the Supreme Court. At Janesville, Wisconsin, a few days ago, Johanna Welsh, aged nine years, was building a fire witli kerosene, and was fatally burned. A similar accident recently occurred at Auburn, Indiana, to a twelve-year-old girl named Culver, who laid the foundation for a fire by pouring coal oil on the ashes. Live coals concealed in the ashes communicated fire to the can, which exploded with great violence, covering the poor girl with a sheet oTflames. She was burned nearly to a crisp, and died in a few minutes. An Indianapolis (Ind.) dispatch of the 27th says the cholera had made its appearance in that city. Three fatal Gases occurred in one family; no other fatal cases reported. There were twenty-one cholera death in St Louis during the week ending on the 26th. The entire mortality for the week was 253, a decrease of 39 from the previous week.

At a meeting held at Brownsdale, Minnesota, on the 26th, under the auspices of the Patrons of Husbandry, resolutions were adopted denouncing the increased salary hill and all Credit Mobilicr transactions; declaring a loss of confidence in tlie honesty of the present political parties, and in fayorof anew organization; demanding greater economy, in County, State, and National Administration, denouncing the present system of railroad management, and calling for a State massconvention of all who agree with the principles set forth in the resolutions, said convention to be held at Owatonna, on the 2d of September next. A letter is published from the Hon. W. S. Groesbeck, of Cincinnati, in which he emphatically declares he will not accept a nomination for State Governor. He favors an abandonment of the old party organization, and the formation of a new party in opposition to the present party in power, and suggests that the new party be called the Liberal Democracy. Bail has been refused in the case of the Gordon captors, and the prisoners will have to lie in a British jail until their trial in October next. The Bureau of Agriculture has ordered 400 bushels of wheat from France, and an equal quantity from Chili, embracing all varieties of winter wheat. Cargoes are expected to arrive about the first of September, and will be distributed in season for fall sowing. The July report of the Agricultural Bureau represents an improvement in winter wheat, but a decline in the prospects of spring wheat _on account of unseasonable weather in some quarters, and insect enemies in others. The average in corn is increased in West Virginia and Minnesota, and decreased in all other States except Florida and Arkansas, where it remains the same as last year. The Attorney-General has recommended that pardons be issued to Felix Dower, Stephen Spawn, Ewan Murphy and William Scruggs, convicted in North and South Carolina of connection with Ku-Klux outrages. The managers of trunk lines to the West have made tho following reductions in freight charges on first class merchandise, which includes dry goods, boots and shoes, clothing, etc.: From New York to Chicago, per cwt., 75 cents; formerly sl. Cleveland, 49 cents; formerly 65 cents. Cincinnati, 70 cents; formerly 92 cents. St. Lbuis, 97 cents; "formerly $1.28. Louisville, 86 cents; formerly $1.23. Memphis, $1.35; formerly $1.62. The following are the rates from Lake Erie ports westward: To Cleveland, Toledo, and Detroit, 45c. To Chicago, Milwaukee, and Green Bay, 51c. ----- * The Peruvian Government has commenced suits against several dealers in guano in New York City, who are said to adulterate the article and sell it as guano. The complaint and affidavits in the case of Ann Eliza Webb, seventeenth wife of Brigham Young, were filed on the 28th, in the Clerk’s office of the Third District Court of Utah. The complaiuant sues for $200,000 damages, alimony, and pending the suit SI,OOO per month, and $20,000 for counsel fees. The second annual convention of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of Illinois met at Bloomington on the 28th. About one hundred delegates were present. Two additional deaths from cholera were reported in Indianapolis on the 28th. But seven deaths in all had so far occurred, five of which were the children of one family. Merriam, the only one of the Minneapolis party whom tlie Manitoban Judge decided bailable, was released on the 28th, two of the wealthiest aud most respected citizens of Manitoba becoming his sureties. Attorney-Gener-al Clarke refused to deliver up $25,000 taken from two of the Americans, although the Court had ordered him to do so. Jolin.Q. Page, who began an action to recaver $7,000 paid into the Kansas Legislature by A, -M. York, dismissed the case on the 28th, paying all the costs. Tlie suit was to recover money now iu the hands of the Kansas State Treasurer, on the ground set forth by ex-fecna-tor Pomeroy in his defense that the money was given by Pomeroy to York to be given to Page, to aid in: the establishment of a bank at Independence. Crop reports from Arkansas on. thc”26th were very encouraging. Reports from Mississippi were conflicting in regard to cotton, but the com crop would not yield more than half a crop, owing to the drouth, while in the neighborhood of Okalona, Kosciusko and Brandon, both cotton and com would make a poor yield. In addition to the drouth the worms had appeared in West Tennessee. Com would only yield half a crop, but the cotton prospect was fair. A Washington dispatch of the 29th says that semi-official authority warrants the statement ttiat tlie Military Commission had awarded the full penalty ofthe law in the case of the Modoc prisoners, and that the sentence of death by Bhooting will be carried into effect as soon as it shall have been approved by the President. The British authorities have declined the proposition of the, United States to have an exchange of postal cards by the addition of one cent postage, the same as we now have with Canada, on the ground that Great Britain is opposed to any lower rate of postage than that now paid on letters.President Grant arrived at Kingston, N. Y., on the 29th, on his way to the Overlook Mountains. He met with an enthusiastic reception. A mass-meeting to consider the transportation question is to be held in New York in September, under the auspices of the American Cheap Transportation Association. The Michigan State Convention of County School Superintendents will be held'at Jackson, August 26, and continue three days. C. 8. Binkley and O. R. Dascomb, of Division 113 of the “ Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,” of Des Moines, have been appointed to receive contributions to the fund for the benefit of the family of Rafferty, the hero of the recent railway robbery, and hold them until disbursed by the division. * * On the 29th ult. a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Wisconsin State Grange was held at Oshkosh, and a resolution was adopted repudiating the late action Of the Dodge County Patrons of Husbandry, and the following official notice has lieen issued: Worthy Patrons: It ha* recently come to the notice of the State Grange that certain movements are being made to commit the Order to a direction of political action during the coming State elections. A convention has also been called by what purports to be the Dodge County Council of Granges, to meet In Milwaukeeon the 21»t of August, avowedly for political purposes. The State Grange considers this action very unwise, and counsels all their patrons to beware of the machinations of those who desire to thns violate one of the fundamental principles of the Order, by entering into the turmoil of political strife. We hereby caution all Granges against taking any notice whatever of the above-mentioned call, as it is entirely unauthorized by any proper authority. By order of thc-Stat* Grange. Janes Brainard, Secretary. Several farmers of Wayne County, lowa, recently held a convention and nominated a full

county ticket, and adopted a series of resolutions repudiating both the republican and Democratic parties. A Des Moines (Iowa) dispatch of the 29th says: “Harvest is well advanced all over lowa. Reports from all parts of the State say that wheat is'injured by smut and blight, and that the yield will not be above the average of last year, and the grain not of as good quality. Oats promise well, and com will be a tremendous crop, with a favorable fall.” A Convention of delegates from portions of North Mississippi, West Tennessee and Western Kentucky, was held at Jackson, Tenn., on the 29th, having in view the formation of a new State out of those fractions. After the appointment of appropriate committees, the convention adjourned to the 30tli. The Railroad and Wareiiouse Commlasioners of Illinois have given an opinion that the through lines to New York cannot, under the State law, give through rates to New York from one point in the State on the same road, and refuse to give them from other points, notwithstanding the articles offered for shipment at each place are of like quantities of the same class. The Grand Lodge of Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Mississippi recently elected J. S. Cain, of Okalona, G. M.; R. M. Mayo, Yazoo City, Grand Secretary; D. N. Barrows, of Jackson, Grand Representative to the Grand Lodge of the United States. A little daughter of Col. Bibb, of Corinth, Miss., was recently burned to death by the explosion of a can of coal oil, with which she was trying to kindle a fire in a stove. Her mother was severely burned in trying to save the child. The “People’s State Convention,” of Ohio, based on what is known as the “Allen County Movement,” met at Columbus, Ohio, on the 30th of July. Hon. George E. Pugh was chosen temporary Chairman, and made a speech endorsing the movement. Norton S. Townsend, of Lorain, was elected permanent Chairman. The following ticket was nominated: For Governor, Isaac C. Collins, of Cincinnati, Democrat; Lieutenant-Governor, A. Saunders Piatt, of Logan, Liberal; Judge of Supreme Court (long term) P. B. Ewing, of Fairfield, Democrat, and for the short term, D. W. C. Louden, of Brown, Liberal; Attor-ney-General, Zeraphim Myers, of Stark, Liberal; Comptroller of the Treasury, C. P. L. Butler, of Franklin, Liberal; Board of Public Works, James Mcßooth, of Allen, Democrat; Treasurer, Jonathan Ilarshman, of Montgomery, Democrat. Resolutions were adopted—declaring against the infalibility of party, and that it is the duty of good citizens to vote for the best men presented for official position, regardless of party; that a new organization/of parties is demanded in the interest of the public welfare; that the Republican party is directly responsible for the act known as the “salary grab,” and kindred legislation; against the granting of subsidies in land or money, and of special privileges and exemptions to National banks and other moneyed corporations; demanding home government on all local affairs; that the appointment of subordinate officers should depend upon their qualifications, and that their tenure should depend upon their fitness and efficiency; that duties on imports, as long as such duties are necessary, should not be imposed for purposes -benefiting or enriching-private individuals or companies, or favoring particular branches of industry at the expense of the whole people. Speeches were made in support of the movement by Judge Collins, General Thomas Ewing, Hon Fred. Hassaurek, and others. Senator Thurman is declared to have said that the new departure movement is a great mistake, and that he does not believe a disruption of the Democratic party is either necessary or advisable. The KansaSj Farmers’ State Convention began its session at Lawrence en the 30th ult. Five hundred Grangers were in attendance. On the first of January there were but ten Granges irrthe State, while there are now over one-hundred. ■ ==™ts====*is Hattie Welfare, of Grand Rapids, Mich., attempted to kindle a fire with kerosene oil, a few days ago. At Toledo, lowa, a boy named Anthony Rcuch, made the same daring attempt. So did Anne .Ruth, a servant girl in a LaSalle (Ill.) family. All three were fatally burned, and have since died.