Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1873 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

THE OLD WOBLD. A London dispatch of. the. morning of the 10th says that information had just been received that the Carlist General, OUo, had routed the army of General Norlones near Ciraqua, and compelled it to retreat to Puerto La Reyna, leaving behind a large number of dead and wounded. A Paris dispatch of the 10th says the Count de Cliambord, in view of developments in the near future, had taken up bls residence near Geneva. The Left and the Republican portions of the Assembly, represented by Thiers and Gambetta, respectively, had agreed upon a declaration in regard to the proposed monarchy. The police had seized upon 22,000 photographs of the Prince Imperial, which Were about to be distributed throughout France. A London dispatch of the 10th says a person claiming to be Arthur Orton had arrived in that city. This would complicate the Tichborne mystery. An official dispatch from Gen. Noriones, Republican commander, to the Spanish Government, of Oct. 10, had disposed of the claim of the Uarlists that they had achieved a victory over that officer. He reports that the Carlisle were driven back with a loss of 100 killed and 500 wounded. A Paris telegram of the 11th says that twen-ty-seven members of the Municipal Council bad published an address, in which they declare that the Assembly has no right to alienlate the national sovereignty ; afflFm that the majority of the people reject the claim of the Count de Chambord to the throne, and request the Deputies from the Department of the Seine to declare how they propose to vote when the question of a change of government is brought up in the Assembly. Advices from Vienna to the 11th say that many American travelers, who hold letters of credit from suspended banks in the United States find themselves without funds, and are compelled to accept friendly subscriptions to enable them to return home. Many of the American waiters and laborers at the Exhibition were also in destitute circumstances. A Madrid dispatch of the 12th says that the Alphonsista Club had issued a manifesto declaring that the time had come to prepare for the accession of Don Alphonso to the throne of Spain. A rumor was in circulation that a conspiracy had been discovered to assassinate Senor Castelar. A Paris dispatch of the 15th says that it had been agreed between the Right aud Left Centers, to submit a proposition to the Assembly, when it reconvenes, to prolong McMahon’s tenure of office as President, and to accompany the proposition by a plan for a. definite organization of the Republic. The Bonapartists had organized for an appeal to the people. There were rumors afloat that disagreements had arisen between the Government of France and Italy. Late intelligence from Pekin, received from San Francisco on.the 15th, was to the effect that twenty-seven villages had been swept away by the waters of the Yuqgtino River, and that a great amount of human and animal life had been lost by the disaster. Intelligence reached New York on the 15th that the Cuban Insurgents under Gomez had captured and sacked the town of Santa Cruz del Sur, situated near Puerto Principe. Over 600 rifles and 6,000 cartridges, besides large quantities of clothing and provision, were secured.' THE NEW WORLD. A Washington dispatch of the 9th says that Treasurer Spinner had just completed his report of the National finances and the transactions of the National Treasury for the fiscal yearending June 30, 1873. The net receipts by warrants, exclusive of repayments and counterwarrauts, were $548,669,221; and the net expenditures, exclusive of same items, $524,044,597. The net receipts were disIributedas follows: Loans, $214,931,017; customs, $188,089,522; internal revenue, $113,729J114; lands; $2,882,312; misceUaneous, $29,037,055. Receipts from customs have decreased since the report of last year about $28,250,000, and those of internal revenue, $16,900,000. The increase from miscellaneous sources was about $4,500,000, and that from lands, $300,000. The net expenditures on account of the War Department were $46,000,000, and the Navy $23,000,000, against $36,000,000 for the War Department last year, and $21,000,000 for the Navy Department. Expenditures for diplomatic service have decreased about $300,000, and those for the judiciary have increased about the same amount. Expenditures on account of the public debt were $343,555,945, against $529,324,414 last year, a decrease of $185,767,469. The balance in the Treasury June 30, 1873, was $131,178,137, which differs from the figures of the Secretary and Register _sl6l. The conscience fund, during the fiscal year, independent of the Congressional back pay, was $25,551, making the total receipts »from December, 1863, $154,695. In addition to this, tire sum credited to this fund on rmcount of back pay, was $196,513. During the year there was received from the United States of Colombia, $114,307. The Treasury holds from National Banks, to secure circulation, $309,410,550, and to secure the Government deposits of $15,560,000—an increase in the first item of $10,000,000 over last year, and a decrease hi the latter of $200,000. The business of the Treasury, transacted through National Banks, was $114,000,000. ABpeclarfrothShreveport,La.,ofthe9th, says the back-bone of the pestilence had been broken. Rev. Father Lcasont, Secretary of the Bishop of Natchitoches had died, making the fifth priest of the diocese who had been stricken down by the scourge. The number of deaths from the fever on the 9th had been ten. The pestilence in Memphis had shown very little signs of abatement on the 9th. Fifty-six nurses had been sent from New Orleans. Several of the first citizens of that city had died during the day. A New. York dispatch of the 9th says that currency had become more plenty, and that currency payments would soon be resumed by the various banking associations. The National Trust Company had decided to resume in full on the 13th. Gold sold as low as 108% for greenbacks. The firm of Gibson, Cozenova & Co., had failed. John T. Irving, who acknowledged to a San Francisco detective that he could indicate the murderers of Nathan, had reached New York. A dispatch from Reading, Pa., of the 9th, announces that Bushing & Bro., of that city had suspended, with liabilities amounting to over $2,000,000. A Washington dispatch, of jibe 9th to the Associated Press 'says that the Treasury reserves had been drawn upon to the extent of $3,000,000 to meet the current expenses of the Government. The only notable event in connection with

New York finances, on the 10th, had been the decrease in the price of gold, which was sold as low as 107% for greenbacks, the lowest price since the war. ■ A Montgomery (Ala.) dispatch of the 10th announces that the yellow fever had appeared in that city. The deaths in Shreveport, La., had only reached nine’ onthe lOtfiT A dispatch from Northwestern lowa of the 10th says that great devastation had been caused on the preceding day by the accidental starting of a prairie fire near Kossuth. At last . accounts the destroyer was still sweeping over Kossuth,'Hancock tfnd Winnebago counties, with little prospect of Its ravages being stayed immediately. Vast quantities of hay, stock, farm machinery, and, in some cases, houses anirstables had been burned. A special Washington dispatch pf the 11th says the absorbing topic of conversation was the shooting of ex-Senator Pomeroy by Martin F. Conway, ex-Representative of Kansas, on one of the streets of that,eity. The following are the facts: Pomeroy was walking along New York avenue this afternoon, and when near the corner of 14th street he saw Conway standing, evidently awaiting him. When he was within four feet of Conway,thelatter drew a revolver and fired three shots in quick succession, and then walked leisurely away, but was soon brought back by a citizen, to whom he gave the pistol with the remark that “He (Pomeroy) has ruined my wife and children, and I have a right to shoot him.” Pomeroy, who had fallen to the pavement, was assisted to a carriage and driven home, when physicians were immediately summoned. On examination, the ball was-found to have passed through his coat, vest and shirt, but its force was so far spent that after penetrating the skin it was thrown off by striking a rib. It is said that the cause of the shooting was that Conway has had frequent political reverses in Kansas, which he attributes to Pomeroy. Conway was subsequently admitted to bail In the sum of SIO,OOO. A Memphis dispatch of the 11th says that the yellow fever epidemic was on the increase, and had spread over the whole city. Crowds continued to leave every day, which tended to create a panic among those remaining. Business was nearly at a stand-still. The number of deaths on the 11th up to 6 p. m., was fortyfive. Havana advices of the 6th say that the Insurgents, 1,000 strong, had surprised the Spanish column at Holquin. The Spanish loss was 125—killed, wounded and missing—among whom was the Spanish Commander, who was badly wounded. The Spaniards were subsequently reinforced, and the Insurgents driven back to their camp. The Insurgents had also attacked Santa Ciuz del Sur, but had been repulsed with a loss of 13 killed. Advices from the City of Mexico of the 2d, via Havana 11th, say that Congress had decreed the separation of Church and State; the prohibiting or establishing of any religion; marriage to be a civil contract; prohibiting the holding of property 'by religious institutions, etc. A New York telegram of the 11th says that George A. Clarke, Cashier and Ticket-seller of the Union Pacific Railroad, had fled from the city, and a deficiency of SIO,OOO had been found in his accounts. He is supposed to have used the money for speculative purposes during the panic. A Philadelphia dispatch of the 11th says that business matters were in a very critical condition. Several manufacturers have closed entirely for want of funds, and others are attemptingto jeduee the wages of their employes. Should the reduction be insisted upon, a general strike will be the Consequence. A Memphis dispatch of the 12th says that the favorable change in the weather was having a good effect, aud it was thought that the epidemic would soon be abated. A Washington dispatch of the 13th says the Comptroller of the Currency had issued a call upon the National banks of the country to report their condition at the close of business on Friday, the 12th of September. This is done to enable that officer to furnish complete statistics of their condition just previous to the beginning of the panic. The special officer from the Comptroller’s department had reported that the proceedings taken by the Union National Bank of Chicago to go into voluntary liquidation were irregular in form. The department, had therefore returned the papers to the bank, giving the institution the choice of correcting them or resuming. The Comptroller had received a dispatch from the bank that it had decided upon resumption. •»» The Supreme Court of the United States met In their chamber on the 13th, aud immediately adjourned to pay their annual visit to the President. Subsequently a bar meeting was held to take action concerning the death of Chief-Justice Chase, and resolutions eulogistic of the character of the deceased were adopted. A Washington telegram of the 13th says the President had caused an order tohedssued from the War Department, giving full pardon to all deserters who may return to duty on or before the Ist of January next, and who may sefvd faithfully during the remainder of their term of enlistment. A report of the great storm of August 24, Issued from the Signal Office, shows that 1,032 vessels, of which 425 were small fishing schooners, dre known to have been destroyed during the 24th and 25th of August in the neighborhood of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Atlantic shores of Novia Scotia, Cape Breton and Newfoundland. In addition to this a large number—over ninety vessels—had been destroyed by the same storm in its course before reaching Nova Scotia, making a total of 1,122 vessels destroyed within a few days; 223 lives were definitely reported to be lost, and the most moderate estimate of numerous cases, in which whole crews are stated to have been lost, had swelled the number to nearly 500, while if to this be added the loss of life* on land and in the earlier history of the cyclone, the grand'total amounted to at least 600 lives. The records also show that about 900 buildings had been IsjuredoAotally destroyed by this storm. ■ Dispatches from Oregon, of the 13th, say that the election for Congressman had passed off quietly. It was thought that Nesmith ha 4 been elected by a small majority. A Ban Francisco dispatch of the 13th says that Delche, a notorious Apache chief, had left the reservation with 1,000 warriors, and gone upon the war-path. General Crook had -started in pursuit. 2 A Cincinnati dispatch of the 13th announced that all the banks in that city had resumed currency payments. There had been no run, anilhe deposits had been liberal and beyond expectation. ' According to a New York dispatch of the 13th, the Clearing-House Association had extended the period for the maturity of tbe.loan certificates beyond November 10, If this form of relief should then be found necessary. The

National Trust Company had resumed business. A dispatch from the Mayor of Memphis to the Mayor of Cincinnati on the afternoon of the 13th says The yello w fever had not abated and that aid from abroad was wanted. Other dispatches say that it was thought that the disease had passed its worst, and that there would be no more violent outbreaks. A dispatch from Owensville, Texas, says the yellow fever had broken out in that vicinity. Dispatches from Pennsylvania, of the 14 th, were to the effect that the Republicans had been successful in the elections in that State on that day. Gordon, the Republican candidate for Judge of the Supreme Court, had been elected, though he ran largely behind his ticket. Mackey, the candidate for Treasurer, left Philadelphia with about 25,000 majority.. His majority in the State would be nearly double. Returns from lowa up to midnight of the 14th indicated that Carpenter, the Republican candidate for Governor, had been elected by from 30,000 to 40,000 majority. On the county, local and.legislative tickets there had been desperate contests, and some of the strong Republican counties had gone for the “Anti-MonopolistS.” Mahaska County, heretofore giving 1,000 Republican majority, is reported as giving 12,000 “Anti-Monopoly” majority. There had been general scratching of tickets all over the State. In Ohio the election on the 14th passed off quietly. A dispatch from Columbus says the Democrats laid elaim to large gains, and asserted that the Legislature was sufficiently Democratic to secure the- re-elec-tion of Senator Thurman. The Republicans had claimed the State for Governor Noyes by a majority of from 10,000 to 15,000. There seemed to be little doubt at midnight that the Republicans had been successful on the State ticket, though the Legislature was extremely doubtful, and its political complexion could only be determined by the official count. The election in Indiana, on the 14th, was for local officers only, t and passed off without excitement. It could scarcely be said to have had political significance. No returns had been received at midnight of the 14th. The election in Nebraska, on the 14th, passed off quietly. At midnight scarcely any returns had been received. The probability was that the Republicans had elected their ticket. In the District of Columbia, the election for members of the House of Delegates, on the 14th, resulted in the choice of two Democrats and twenty Republicans. A Carlinsville (Ill.) dispatch of the 14th says the Board of Supervisors of Macoupin County had been served with notice to appear at Springfield, and show cause why they should not be attached for contempt, for refusing to include in the tax-levy certain judgments obtained in the United States Courts against the county. The President, on the 14th, issued the following proclamation: By the President of the United States of America: The approaching close of another year brings with it the occasion for renewed thanksgiving and acknowledgment to the Almighty Ruler of the Universe for the unnumbered mercies which lie has bestowed upon us. Abundant harvests have been among the rewards of industry, with local exceptions; health has been among the blessings enjoyed ; tranquility at home and peace with other nations have prevailed; frugal industry is regaining its merited recognition, its merited reward. 'Gradually, but under the providence of God surely, as we trust, the nation is recovering from the lingering results of a dreadful civil strife: for these and all the other mercies it becomes ns as a people to return heartfelt and grateful acknowledgements, and with our thanksgiving we may unite prayers far the cessation of local and temporary suffering. I therefore recommend that on Thursday, the 27th day of November next, the peopltfTnect in their respective jrlaces of worship to make their acknowledgments to Almighty God for His bounty and His protection, and to offer to Him prayers for their continuance. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this 14th day of October, in the year of Our laird 1873; and of the independence of the United States the ninety-seventh. Ulysses S. Grant. By tire President: Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State. A dispatch from New York of the 14th says that on that day their had been another flurry in the stock market, and securities were slaughtered in a discouraging manner, the losses being heavier and the feeling worse than at any time since the panic. The great decline was due to the straits to which brokers are reduced by their inability to secure loans. Prices fell from four to ten per cent., and several failures had been announced. New York Central had fallen to 82X, and this was taken as a sign of Vanderbilt’s inability to bolster it up, it having always been his policy to hold up that stock, no matter what the consequence was to other stocks. Western Union, another of the stocks in which Vanderbilt is interested, fell to 49X, and Lake Shore to 59%. The 'houses of Burger, Hurlburt & Livingston; Gillespie, Trowbridge & Co.; Whittemore, and Wm. Hoge Co., had suspended. Publication was made in the New York Evening Pont, on the 14th, of a letter from President Grant,.in which he says of his letter to Anthony and Claflin: “ My whole object iu my letter to Anthony and Claflin was to restore confldenco to the public mind, and to give assurances thattbe Government woiild give all the aid in its power, keeping in view, at the same time, the solvency of the National Treasury. I alluded to the fact that $14,000,000 of reserve notes in the Treasury would be regarded as money in the Treasury, for the purpose of showing that the means are at hand to give the relief that we promise. I do not believe the present panic will work to individuals half the injury that It will work general good to the country at large. Oitr monetary system is a creation of necessity. It has no elasticity, but in other respects it is the best that has ever been devised. No one now 'distrusts the value of his paper dollar. On the contrary, it is seized and hoa*oed with the same avidity now that gold dollars haye been in former like'adversities. The panic wtfl call attention to the defects in our monetary system, and will no doubt lead to legislation to remove the want of elasticity. The panic has brought greenbacks about to a par with silver. 1 wonder that silver Is not already coming into the market, to supply currency in the circulating medium. When it does come, and I predict that it soon will, we will have made one rapid stride toward specie payments. Currency will never go below silver after that." A dispatch from San Francisco of the 14 th says the troops under command of Lieutemtht Schuyler, had come up with the Apaches, under De'lche, killed fourteen warriors and dlapersed the band. A dispatch from Columbus, Ohio, of the 15th, says the Legislature of that State had been conceded to the Democrat* by well-in-fonned Republicans. The prospects of Allen, "Democrat, for Governor, were more favprable *than on the preceding day, although It was generally believed that Noyes had been elected by a reduced majority. The latest retards from Pennsylvania, on Ute 15th, indicated that .Gordon’s majority for judge of the Supreme Court would reach about 18,000. Mackey had received about 35,000 majority. A San Francisco dispatch of the 15th says that McKinney, independent candidate for Supreme Judge, had probably been elected. The Sixth Uongreaaional District Democratic Convention of New York met in New York City on the 15tb, sod Dominated 8. 8. Cox

for Congress, in place of James Brooks, deceased. A dispatch from Bpringfield, Dakota, of the 15th, says a war party of 200 Sioux had attacked the Poncas on the morning of that day. The fight began on the bluffs back bf the Agency, and the Sioux were repulsed with a loss of four killed. Subsequently they renewed the attack, and fighting was going on at the date of the dispatch. The Poncas had four killed at that time. An Albany, New York, special of the 15th says that Charles JI. Phelps, Cashier of the State Treasury Department, had been arrested upon the charge *of robbing the Treasury of $300,000. An Athens, Pa., dispatch of the 15th says a bold robbery had been perpetrated on the First National Bank, of that place, on the preceding night. While Charles ’Hull, the cashier, was working at the desk, about 10:30 in the evening, five men came In, and gagged and handcuffed him. The vault doors and the inner safe being' open, the robbers secured everything therein and escaped. The cashier was found on the floor of the back office, the next morning, in a state of nervous exhaustion. The loss to the bank was probably small, as it held- but a small amount of currency. The special deposits taken would amount to about $20,000, mostly negotiable. Dispatches from Memphis, of the 15th, report that the absence of frost and the prevalence of warm and sultry weather had caused an increase of yellow-fever. The deaths on that day from the disease numbered fortyone. The Odd -Fellows had Jost twenty-six members, four widows and wives and eight children, and have now forty-four sick. A Toledo, Ohio, dispatch of the 15th says the seventh reunion of the Army of - the Tennessee had been held in that city on that day. General Sherman presided, and General Logan delivered an oration. The President and about four hundred officers were present and participated in the ceremonies.