Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1875 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

* POREHiK. An official dispatch published in & Madrid paper of the 90th states that Gen. Dorregaray, the Carilst chieftain, had been wounded and had taken refuge in France. The council of delegates from all the Presbyterian churches in Christendom met in Lofton on the 90th. Many representatives of American and Canadian churches were present The Governor of Bosnia has been ordered to dispatch troops to suppress the insurrection in Hercegovina. Alexander and William Callie, of the firm which lately suspended, were arrested in London on the 21st, charged" with obtaining ♦1,000,000 under false pretenses. They were held to bail in the sum of #40,000 each. At Wimbledon on the 21st Maj. Fulton, of the American team, won the American cup. On the 22d, in the British House of Commons, a remarkable scene occurred. Mr. Disraeli bad given notice that the Government had abandoned the Merchant-Shipping bill for the session, when Mr. Plimsoll, the humanitarian, arose in his seat and with violent gestures and insulting speech declared that such a course would be the destruction of thousands of human'Tives. Being called to order he repeated his remarks, and declared that certain members engaged in the shipping interests were villains. He was ordered from the House and retired shaking his fists at the Government benches.” It was thought that Mr. Plimsoll had become temporarily Insane. The constitution adopted by the Pan-Pres-byterian Council was published in London on the morning of the 23d. The name given the new union is the “ Alliance of the Reformed Chnreh Throughout the World.” All churches are Included which hold to the Presbyterian system aad creed. Sir Francis Bond Head, formerly Lieuten-ant-Governor of Upper Canada, and an author of considerable note, died on the 23d.

About 800 German manufacturers have announced their Intention, to exhibit their wares at the Philadelphia Centennial. Four thousand acres between Earith and De®burgh, England, were flooded on the 23d> and 8,000 cattle deprived of pasturage. The water was also four feet deep on 4,000 acres near Whittlesey. The Spanish Government has decided to contract a loan of #7,000,000 to indemnify the owners of emancipated slaves in Porto Rico. A London dispatch of the 94th says Don Carlos had written a letter to King Alphonso, reproaching him for allowing the Civil war to be conducted with such excessive rigor, and counseling moderation ou the 6ide of the Alphonsists on pain of reprisals by the Carlists. The official statement of Caillaux, Minister of Public Works, to the French Assembly estimates the total damage done to property by the Inundation in the South of France at ♦15.000,000. The Carlist losses during the three weeks ending July 25 arc estimated at 4,000 men in killed, wounded and missing. A lock-out commenced in several cottonmills in England on the 24th. At a meeting held in Birkenhead, England, on the 25th to indorse Plimsoll’s course in Parliament resolutions expressing sympathy with and pledging support to him were adopted. Several thousand sailors and workingmen attended the meeting.

IMEttESTIC. On his return from the Indian Territory some time ago Prof. Marsh, of New Haven, wrote to the President, charging that supplies furnished to the various Indian tribes were inferior and improperly distributed. He also charged Secretary Delano and Indian Commissioner Smith with being cognizant of these frauds. In regard to Indian Agent Baville, of the Red Cloud Agency, Mr. Marsh declared that he was wholly unfitted for his position and guilty of the grossest frauds upon the Indians in his charge. This letter was accompanied with samples of the goods furnished. The President called the attention of the department to the letter, and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs straightway came out with a positive denial of the charge of fraud and corruption, so Tar as his own department was concerned, and said the commission appointed to inquire into the condition of affairs at the Red Cloud Agency had completely exonerated the Agent. A New Haven dispatch of the 18th says that notwithstanding the above denial and explanation Prof. Marsh has reiterated his former statements and charges. A special commission appointed to investigate these charges met in New York on the evening of the 19th. It consists of Messrs. Faulkner, M. C-, of West Virginia; Harris, M. C-, of Massachusetts, and Fletcher, M. C-, of Missouri. The meeting, which was strictly private, was organized by electing Gov. Fletcher Chairman. Prof. Marsh and Indian Commissioner Smith appeared before the body, accompanied by Gen. Fisk, Chairman of the Board of Indian Commissioners. Mr. Marsh presented his charges in pamphlet form, which had already been printed. Investigation will take place at the Red Cloud Agency. The substance of John D. Lee’s confession relating to the Mountain Meadows massacre is that thirty Mormons, with the assistance of a large number of Indians, decoyed the emigrants from their entrenchments by a flag of trace; that all were murdered except seventeen children; that the' deed' was done under orders from the leader of the Mormon Church; that took the news of the massacre to - Brigham Young, who deplored the transaction and said it would bring disaster on the Mormon people. . Lee’s statement, so far as known, says a Beaver <Ctah) dispatch of the ‘2oth, only confirms the previous reports in regard to the massacre. Thirteen miners and four wagons were cap-■fturedforty-five miles north of Fort Laramie, en route to the Black Hills, on the 16th, and tiiken into the fort on parole. Air. Eads reported on the 20th that the Mississippi jetties had been run out 3,000 feet, and. were progressing at the rate of 200 feetdally. Four hundred men are employed. The confession of John D. Lee, of Mountain Meadows massacre notoriety, not being j satisfactory to the Prosecuting Attorney, Lee | was, on the 21st, placed on trial under the old and three new Indictments. A jury was impaneled oi* the 22d, composed of eight Morions and four Gentiles. A cooking-tank in Close & Son's paper mill, at lowa fSty, exploded on the evening

of the 22d, and destroyed more than half of the mill, killing six men, four of whom were a distance of over SOQ feet Two of the Victims were .el tb#* - buried in the ruins or blown into tliu river. One man was blown to the estimated height of 500 feet,- and in falling went through the roof of a paint-shop seventy yards away from the mill, knocking a hole through the shingles, the inch sheathing beneath, and breaking two rafters. The names of the killed are: Chiha, Gilmore, Smaler, Tienea, Bechtel and Sinton. In the Mountain Meadows massacre trial at Beaver, Utah, on the 23d Philip K. Smith, Mormon, testified. His story, it is said, in its details is the same as Lee’s suppressed and rejected confession. He implicates Lee, Dame, Higbee and other Mormons, and directly accuses them of taking an active part, with himself, in the perpetration of the outrages and murders. The crime was committed at the. instigation of leading Mormons, and on being informed pf wbat had been done Brigham Young cautioned them not to talk about it among themselves. The property of the slaughtered emigrant* was appropriated by the Mormons. Indians were associated with them in the massacre. Witness and a. few others of the Mormons were opposed to the commission of the crime, but could not help themselves or refuse to carry out the orders of their superiors. Returns of-the Department of Agriculture fob July lshow the condition of spring and winter wheat together at about 82 per cent, of an average. Winter wheat, including California, averages 74, and spring wheat 90. Spring wheat States in the Northeast and Northwest are generally in high condition. Of the winter wheat area the South Atlantic and Gulf States are generally above the average, but in the Middle States the condition is very low, New- York ranging down to 45. West of the Alleghenies the prospect is better, the State averages being between 71 in Ohio and 95 in lowa. California reports winter wheat at 76 and spring wheat at 75.

The Postoffice Department has sent to the Department of Justice the names of thirtynine mail contractors who are to be prosecuted for failure to perform service after their bids were accepted. The contracts were relet by the Government, and the difference between the amount paid and the bids, for the thirty-nine routes, was #417,087, which is the amount of damages claimed against the delinquent bidders. The New York Tributu of the 20th announces that the* Postmaster-General had set the new route along the shores of the lakes for the fast mail to the West, expected to run by the Ist of October. It will make the distance from New York to Chicago in not more than twenty-six hours, and it is hoped to reduce the time to twenty-four, a gain of twelve hours oyer the present mail and express train. A girl named Mary Frames, of Indianapolis, attempted on the 23d to light a fire in the stove by using kerosene oil. She was fearfully and fatally burned.

rURSONAL. A Boston dispatch of the 21st says that Jesse Pomeroy, the boy murderer, had been surprised in a cunning and desperate attempt to cut his way out of Charles Street J ail. His arrangements were made for escape on the evening oi that day. Washington dispatches of the 22d state that at a Cabinet meeting, held the day before, the subject of Dist.-Atty. Fisher’s official conduct was under discussion, and the conclusion was unanimously reached that he should be requested to resign after he had been allowed sufficient time to complete the business then pending in his office. It is said the President in asking the AttorneyGeneral to suspend his request for Fisher’s resignation had merely desired to afford the latter an opportunity to reply to the complaints against him. The charges against the Interior Department were also, it is stated, fully discussed, the President expressing in strong terms his confidence in Secretary Delano’s capacity, integrity and faithfulness as an officer, and assuring the Cabinet‘4hat he would not allow the attacks on Delano to injure him the least iu his opinion until the Chartres of his dishonesty should be fully proven. The President returned to Long Branch on the evening of the 21st. Judge Fisher, Attorney of the District of Columbia, sent his resignation to President Grant, at Long Branch, on the 23d. The missing aerouauts, Donaldson and Grimwood, had not been heard from up to the morning of the 24th, and no traces of them or of the balloon had been found iu the lake. The general opinion was that the men had perished, although faint hopes were still" entertained by some that they might have been carried into the forests of Michigan or Canada, and would yet be heard from. Hugh Donahue has recently completed, iu Boston, the task of walking 1,100 miles in 1,100 consecutive hours. He was in good condition at the close.

POLITICAL. The Connecticut House of Representatives ‘ on the 21st voted— lo 2to S3— to indefinitely j postpone the bill giving women the right to ! vote in a Presidential election. The Democratic campaign in Ohio was opened at Gallipolis on the 21st, Geo. H. Pendleton and Gov. Allen being the principal speakers. The Nebraska Republican State Convention is to meet at Kearney on the 15th of September. At a Bankers’ Convention recently held at Saratoga, N. Y., resolutions were adopted—favoring immediate specie resumption and calling upon every citizen to hasten the day when every promise of the Government to pay a dollar should be redeemed in coin; eall- : ing for a repeal of the war tax on banks; urg- ! ing Congress to issue coupon bonds in exchange for registered bonds; demanding the abolishmdnr of the iwo-eent stamp tax on checks abd vouchers; favoring a permanent ; organization of national bankers. A resoi lution opposed to the Usury laws was also 1 adopted by a close vote. The Maryland Democratic State Convention, at Baltimore on the 23d, nominated John Lee Carroll for Governor. The resolu. lions adopted oppose a high protective tariff and protest against any increase of the j circulating currency, and demand that Congress shall pass such measures as will resultin a resumption of specie payments at the earliest possible moment. The Democrats of the First Mississippi District have, by |-acelamatiOD, renominated L Q. C. Lamar for Congress.

I This year the southern counties of CaliI fornia sent to San Francisco 5,380,000 oranges, 620,000 lemons and 80,000 limes. The consumption of California is about 10,00(1,000 orsOiges a year, and 5,000,000 are brought from Mexico and the Pacific isles.