Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1875 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

TOBUGN. Certain prominent members of the British Anti-Slavery Society waited on Lord Derby on the l*t with a demand that England should interfere to stop the Cuban war and secure the abolition of slavery in the Antilles. The Duke d’Audilftet Bosquicr has been reelected President of the French National Assembly. The specie ($300,000) on-Aboard of the wrecked steamer Schiller had been undiscovered up to the morning of June 2. The German Government had announced that it reserves the right of inquiring into the circumstances attending the logi} of the Schiller, in addition to the inquiry now in progress at Greenwich. The International Telegraphic Conference was opened at St. Petersburg, Russia, on the 2d. The condition of affairs between the British Government and Burmali is said to be extremely critical. Sixty persons were recently drowned by the capsizing of a lighter on the Tagus, hear Lisbon. The Emperor of Germany has conferred the order of civil merit on Geo. Bancroft, the historian, and H. W. Longfellow, the poet. A terrible hurricane visited the town of Macao, China, on the 2d, destroying a large porlion of the property on the island and causing the loss of several lives. DOMESTIC. The Secretary of the Treasury has called in for payment $10,000,000 of 5-20 coupon bonds dated May 1,1862, and announces that interest thereon Will cease on the Ist of September. The internail revenue receipts for the current fiscal year up to the Ist were $101,245,000. A grand and imposing Masonic demonstra tion was had in New York on the 2d, bn the occasion of the dedication of the new Masonic Temple at Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue, said to be the most magnificent structure of the kind in America and, probably, second to none in the world. Thousands of Knights Templar and members of other Masonic bodies participated in the ceremonies. The foil owing is the report of the conditio of the public debt on the Ist inst.: Six per cent, bonds Five per cent- bonds 590, 682,1 50 Total coin bonds $1,722,149,250 Lawful money debt $14,678,000 Matured debt- 7.870,150 Legal-tender notes - 377-185,. .- Certificates of deposit 55,845,000 Fractional currency ...-.■ - 48,615, Coin certificates 18.910.600 Interest 38,864.580 Total debt. $2,274,074,685 WUMJM Currency 4,358,10. Special deposits held for the redemption of certificates of as provided by law ...... 55,345,000 Total in Treasury $143,954,709 Debt less cash in Treasury $2,130,119,975 Decrease during May 1.189.456 Bonds issued to the Pacific Railway Companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding $64,628,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid.... 1,615.587 Interest paid by the United-States.. &>,264,1u2 'merest repaid'by the transportation of mails, etc....... 6,116,596 Balance of interest paid by United States 20,147,505 Much, excitement was caused in the Treasury building in Washington on the 3d by the mysterious disappearance of a package containing $47,500 in greenbacks. No clew could be obtained as to how or by whom it had been purloined. a proclamation has been signed by the President continuing the existence of the Alabama Claims Commission for six months from the Ist of June. Secretary Delano oas concluded to suspend the sale of Indiau lands in Kansas till Jan. 1,3*78Charles H. Landis, of y ineland, N. J., who 6hot and seriously wounded Uri Carrutli, the editor of the Journal, of that place, in March last, has been released on $50,000 bail. Another outbreak occurred among strikingminsrs at Mahanoy City, Fa., and vicinity ou the Sd, 2,000 armed men assailing men at work in the collieries, compelling them to desist from labor. In one case a Sheriff and posse of men who attempted to disperse the rioters were fired upon, and a general scrimmage ensued, a few being killed and several wounded on both sides. Military aid had been called for liy the authorities. In Boston, a few days ago, a Mrs. Thomas Baaford.took a pistol which she supposed to be unloaded and playfully pointed it at the head-of a young lady friend of hers —Miss Bell Whittier—and, with the intention of giving her axnomentary fright, pulled the trigger. The weapen proved to be loaded and the bullet penetrated the young lady’s brain, producing instant death. An extensive coal-heavers’ strike occurred in Chicago on the Sd, large numbers of union men visiting the different coal yards in the city and driving non-union men who were engaged in unloading vessels from their work. The trouble grew out of the refusal of the «>oal-dealers to pay last year’s prices —five dollars per day for wheelers and seven dollars for &horders —the non-union men being at work for three dollars. Force was used by the strikers in many instances, and a general riot was threatened.

The Coroner’s jury in the Holyoke disaster rendered a verdict on the 4th. They find that no blame is to be attached to any person in immediate connection With, the fire, but they cannot too strongly condemn the almostcriminal carelessness shown in the construction of the galleries and means of egress therefrom. The jury declare .that the parties who built and suffered such a death-trap to stand should receive the unmeasured censure of the community. The jury further find that the direct cause of the fire, with its terrible sacrifice of human life, is attributable to the trimmings of laces, paper, etc., about the altar, and to the fact that the buildiqg was sheathed with pine sheeting instead of being plastered. They strongly deprecate the use of such adornment and use of such finish in places of pnblle resort

Considerable damage was done by the recent severe wind and rain storms in Central Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky. The Cheyenne and Sioux Indian delegations left Washington on the sth for their homes, all attempts to negotiate for the transfer of the Black Hills region to the Government having proved a failure. Before they left Bad Cloud demanded compensation in the wnyttf presents, etc., for Hie interpreters

and other Indiana who had accompanied the regular delegates, which was with one or two exceptiohe refused by the Commissioner. A demand was also made for horses, equipments and guns, to which Commissioner Smith replied thathe would not give them guns if he could, and as to horses and saddles he would give them had he the power to do so, but he had not. Au Associated Press dispatch of the 6th says us the Indians left Washington much dissatisfied difficulties arc apprehended between them and whites who oiaybnter their country for the purpose of seeking for gold. Ilia estimated by the agents that the Sioux can muster from 3,000 to \OOO warriors, about half armed with rifles and the remainder with bows and arrows. The Government, meantime, will endcuvor to prevent adventurers from going to that country, still having some hope through the medium of commissions to effect a treaty with the Sioux. A Pottsville (Pa.) dispatch of the oth says the military had made preparation to secure protection to all working miners iii the collieries at Mahanoy CKy and vicinity, and to insure a continuance of work. *MERSONAL. Mr. Wadsworth, Internal Revenue Collector at Chicago, has refused to resign his office at the request of the Government, preferred through the Commissioner of internal Revenue, insisting that there shall be distinct and specific charges made against him, and that he shall be heard in self-defense. Licut.-Gen. P. H. Sheridan was married in Chicago on the evening of the 3d to Miss Irene Rucker, daughter of Bvt. MaJ.-Gcn. Rucker. Washington dispatches of the 4th announce that Postmaster-Gen. Jewell was about to start on a tour of inspection, visiting the principal cities of the West in order to observe the workings of tbe postal service and to devise reforms wherc possible. President Grant and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Sartoris, Mrs. Cal. Fred. Grant and Gen. Bab. cock arrived at Loug Branch on the 3d. POLITICAL. The New Hampshire Legislature met at Concord on the 2d. The twelve Senators elected appeared in the Senate and were qualified. A formal protest agglnst the right, of Senators Priest and Proctor to their scats was presented and ordered on file. J. W. Sanborn was chosen President by seven Democratic votes, the Republicans not voting. The live Republican Senators then withdrew and met in another room, where they effected a temporary organization. In the House Chas. B. Sanborn (Rep.) was elected Speaker, receiving 190 votes to 179 for Hatch (Dem.). The protest of the five Republican Senators was received, stating that they had refused to act with the body as long as Messrs. Priest and Proctor were allowed seats. The Ohio Republican State Convention met at Columbus on the 2d and nominated: For Governor, Rutherford B. Hayes,of Sandusky; Lieutenant-Governor, Thomas L. Young, of Hamilton; Supreme Judge, George W. Mcllwaine; Auditor, James Williams, of Franklin; Attorney-General, John Little, of Green; Treasurer, J. Minor Milliken, of Butler; member of the Board of Public Works, Peter Thatcher, of Cuyahoga. Among the resolutions adopted was one declaring President Grant entitled to the gratitude of his countrymen because of the distinguished success of his Administration. Another resolution reads as follows: “The observance of Washington’s example in retiring at the close of a second Presidential term will be in the future, as it has been in the past, regarded as a fundamental rule in the unwritteu law of the Republic.” The Minnesota Democratic Btate Convention is to be held on the 7th of July. The United States District Court at Galveston, Tex.,has quashed an indictment against an opera-house manager for ' violating the Civil-Rights law on the ground of the act being unconstitutional and the indictment not alleging that the complainant was a citizen of the United States. The New Hampshire House of Representatives has unanimously adopted resolutions instructing the Speaker to request the Supreme Court to name as early a day as possible for the hearing of the Senatorial question; also to allow both sides to be represented by counsel with briefs and arguments. The Wisconsin Democratic State Convention is to be held at Milwaukee on the Sth of September.