Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1875 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOHRIGN. Sir John Gardner Wilkinson, the eminent English archmologist, died on the 2d. The ship Catherine Griffith was wrecked on the Scilly Islands on the 2d. Eight of her crew were lost. A scow capsized at St. Famllie, Canada, on the Sist during a severe snow-storm, and seventeen persons were drowned. A special telegram from Berlin of the 3d says the Northern powers had requested Austria to rabmit a proposition to the Sublime Porte, embodying the guarantees to be demanded and the control to be exercised to Insure the performance of the Sultan’s promise of reform to the Insurgents in his vassal Stides. It was believed in Berlin and Vienna that Turkey would be unable to suppress the rebellion, and that Austria would intervene with an army in the spring. A Berlin telegram published in London on the morning of the 4th announces the destruction of the arsenal at Realsberg. Over 40,000 rifles hsd been burned, which, with other property destroyed, made a total lass of about $5,000,000. J. J. Ron&ldeon <& Sons, West India merchants of London, failed on the 3d for $350,000. Minister Schenck has .written a letter to the London Txmts exposing the systematic sale of fictitious American university degrees. An official dispatch published in Madrid on the Sd states that the last of the Carlisle in Catalonia, numbering six commanders and 660 men, had surrendered, and that the province was entirely pacificated. The El Cnmista of the 3d stated that Gen. Saballs, having returned to Soain, had been arrested hx Don Carlos and would be courtmartialed'for not preventing the late disasters la Catalonia. A Berlin special of the 4th says Prussia had asked Austria to prevent Bishop Foerster, while residing in the Austrian portion of his diocese, from exercising any episcopal function touching the Prussian portion. The French Assembly met on the 4th. Duke D’Audiffat Pasquier was on the sth eJeetedPresidenrof the French Assembly by a combination of the Left with a portion of the Right. The act was regarded in Paris as an anti-Bonapartist demonstration. A Madrid dispatch of the sth says a note had been received from the Vatican insisting upon the execution of the concordat with the Holy Sec; refusing to recognize the royal placet; attributing the civil war to religious toleration, and demanding that the Bishop of Ujgel shall be tried by ecclesiastical judges and not by an ordinary tribunal. By the decision of the umpire of the American and Spanish Claims Commission for the settlement of claims of citizens of the United Stales against Spain for wrong and injuries committed against persons and property on the island of Cuba since the commencement of the present insurrection, Joaquin G. Deangertea, whose property was embargoed' in 1869 and restored to him in 1873-4, is awarded $748,180, with Interest; Pedro 8. Isioliera gets $3,000 and interest for siiteen days’ imprisonment The London stock market was greatly depressed on the 6th in consequence of the publication of the fact that Austria had garrisoned the frontier forts and was making ready to take a hand in the Turkish troubles. It was reported on the 7th that 30,000 Servian militia had assembled on the frontier and that Servia had sent an agent to Paris and London to negotiate a loan. The iron-dad Serapis, with the Prince of Wales on board, reached Bombay on the 7th.

DOMESTIC. ‘ : The follow Lag is the statement of the condition of the public debt Oct 31: Six per cent bonds 11,043.892,550 Five per Cent bonds 657,282,750 Total coin bonds $1,700,575,300 Lawful money debt 14,000,000 Matured debt 22,865.180 Legal-tender notes 873,805.951 Certificates of deposit 50,880,000 Fractional currency 40.681,629 Coin certificates 15,645,100 Interest ~ 34,844,100 Cash in TreasuryCoin $73,783,439 Currency 9,736,671 Special deposits held for the redemption of certificates of deposit 50.880,000 Total in Treasury $134.400,110 Debt lees cash in Treasury $2,118,397,160 Decrease of debt during October... 4,069,015 Decrease since June 80,1875 Ift, *91.514 Bonds Issued to Pacific Bailway Companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding. $61,623,512 Interest, accrued and not yet paid... 1.292,470 Interest paid by Canted States.. 28,202.307 Interest repaid bv transportation of mails, etc 6,422,701 Balance of interest paid by United States 21,780,106 A resent special from Virginia City, Nev., says building was going on rapidly and the burnt district was dotted with shanties. Work was plenty and wages high. Relief was coming in freely, and the people had recovered their spirits.

Attj.-Gen. Pierrepont is said to be of the opinion that Brigham Young cannot be compelled to pay the alimony to Ann Elisa, for refusing to pay which he has been imprisoned. The poict is whether in marrying Brigham, fully aware of the existence of numerous other wives, Ann did not tacitly consent to an illegal marriage. A Washington dispatch of the 3d says that on that and the previous day the Freedman’s Bank was crowded with resident colored persons drawing their portions of the dividend of 20 per cent Depositors residing at a distance are required to forward their books or other* evidence of indebtedness through some responsible bank or by mat or expressThe Secretary of the Treasury has addressed a circular to the Collectors of Customs announcing that no further importations of neat-cat Ue or hides will be allowed for the present fmm England, is consequence of the prevalenc e of the foot sod mouth disease in that country. *

The annual report of the Postmaster-Gen-eral will shivw that daring the past year 3,640,797 lette, ■» ■*€« received at the Dead-Let-ter Office in Washington, at which numbe r 210,377 were f oreign. These dead letters coo J tained $3,546,9 V 3.44 in money, drafts, etc.—ail of which except about $375,000 was returned to the senders. The foreign letters were returned unopened. i’ A duel occurred in New York city on the 2d between two Polish Jews named Joseph Goldman and Moses Piskall, who were partnerafin the jewelry brtslness. Goldman was shot over the right temple and, right cheek.

and instantly killed. Piskail was shot ovc the light eye and mortally wounded. A fire at Sherman, Tex., on the Ist, destroyed sixty-five business places, the posti office, every printing office in the town, and some thirty families homeless. Loss estimated at over $300,000; lusurauce small. A dUtiuctshock of earthquake was.fcltat Atlanta and other sections of Georgia on the night of the 2d. A man named Jackson, of Jeffersbn County, 111., while getting out of bed the other morning before daylight, accidentally stepped upon the body of his daughter (who was sleeping on an improvised bed on the floor), crushing in her chd#t and killing her instantly. She was fifteen years old. The father weighs over 200 pounds. J David Robinson, living near Kokomo, Ind., on the night of the 3d shot two of his children with a revolver, and then cut their throats from ear to ear. His wife and, one son escaped by running, he firing two shots at them, wounding the son. His friends claim he was temporarily insane. His dead body was found the next morning fourteen miles south of Kokomo. It is supposed he jumped or fell from a freight train on which he was making his escape. The United States Grand Jury in Chicago on the sth reported a large number of indictments against persons alleged to be guilty of violations of the Revenue laws. Three of the four counts in the indictment against H. B. Claflin & Co., of New York, for complicity in silk-smuggling frauds have been sustained by Judge Benedict. The Atchison (Kan.) Daily Champion of the sth has returns from 89 of the 103 Representative districts in Kansas, showing the election of flfty-eight regular Republicans, eight Independent Republicans, eleven Democrats and twelve elected on People’S and Reform tickets. This indicates a less number of Opposition Representatives than last year. The only State Senatorial vacancy is filled by the election of a Republican, an<l of the three District Judges to be chosen the Republicans had elected two. A Bt. Louis special of the 4th says the Grand Jury In the United Btates Court at Bt. Louis had indicted Wm. McKee, one of the proprietors of the Globe-Democrat, and Constantine Maguire, late Revenue Collector, for conspiracy to defraud the Government of its revenue in connection with the whisky tax. Twenty-one million onehundred and thirtyeight thousand postal cards were issued by the Postofflce Department during the month of October, being 5,000,000 more than during any previous month. The First Comptroller of the Treasury haa disallowed the claim of the State of Nebraska for $53,938, being 5 per cent, on the value, at $1.25 per acre, of the estimated quantity of Indian reservations in that State.

PERSONAL. The Boston Base-Ball Club retain the championship, having won forty-eight and lost seven games during the past year. Other clubs take rank iu the order named, as follows: Athletic, St. Louis, Hartford, Philadelphia, Chicago, Mutual. The total number of games played during the season by these clubs was 185. Secretary Chandler has appointed A. P. Gaylord, of Saginaw City, Mich., as Assistant Attorney-General for the Interior Department. Secretary Robeson’s friends claim that the election of a Republican Legislature hi New Jersey will send him to" the United States Senate. At a business meeting of Brooklyn Plymouth Church on the evening of the 4th the names of Deacon West and Mrs. Frank D. Moulton were dropped from the-roll of membership on the ground of continued absence from the services of the church. Mrs, Moulton was present at the meeting, accompanied by her counsel, Roger A. Pryor, who read a protest signed by Mrs. M-, in which she reiterated her charges against Mr. Beecher, which she said she knew to be true by confessions made to her by Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Tilton. It was reported in Brooklyn on the sth that the New York and Brooklyn Association of Congregational Ministers had appointed a committee of its members to carefully examine into the charges against Mr. Beecher and report whether the association ought to retain him in its membership. One hundred guns were fired by the Republicans in Washington on the evening of the 6th over the victories claimed by them at the elections on the 2d. The President was serenaded at the Executive Mansion, and responded in a brief speechThe President on the 6th appointed John A. Raymond Postmaster at Vicksburg, Miss., in place of Henry R. Pease, suspended under the Tenure-of-Offlce act.. The following-named gentlemen compose the committee appointed by the Congregational Association of Ministers to investigate the charges against' Mr. Beecher: Rev. Wm. Taylor, of the Broadway Tabernacle, New York; Rev. Dr. William Ives Budington, of theCliDton Avenue Church, Brooklyn; Rev. Profs. Parsons and Martin, of the New York Theological Seminary, and Rev. Charles H. Everest, of the Church of the Puritans, Brooklyn- Plymouth Church has referred to a committee the charge made by Mrs. Moulton against Mr. Beecher. Thousands of persons attended the Moody and Sankey services, held at the Brooklyn Rink, on the 7th, some 3,000 people being unable to gain admission.

POLITICAL. The official canvass of the votes cast at the late election in Nebraska shows that the new jority. The coupon leaving to the people the power of locating the State capital has 7,500 majority, and the coupon giving 1 the people the power of expressing their preference for United States Senator 16,800 majority. The Democrats elect two District Judges and one District Attorney. Ail the rest of the officers elected are Republicans. Rioe (Rep.) is elected Governor of Massachusetts by a majority of about 5,000 over Gaston (Dem.). About 7,000 votes were polled for the Prohibition candidate. Crapo (Rep.) is elected to Congress in the First District. * Carroll (Dem.) is elected Governor of Maryland by about 15,000 majority. Legislature Democratic. 0. A Portland (Ore.) dispatch of Ue 2d says later election returns materially reduce the majority for Lane (Dem.) for Congress. A dispatch from Salem says returns indicated the election of Warren (Rep.) by a small majority. The recent election in Chicago and Cook County was a very exciting one and resulted in the choice of L. C. Huck (Rep.) as County Treasurer over A. C. Hesing (Opp.) by between 3,000 so a 4,000 majority. Local and personal matters entered largely into the canvass and a third add independent (Dem.) candidate was in the field and received over 7,000 votes. The Republicans do not claim

the victory as a partisan one, Ip the city over 55,000 votes were polled. Returns received up to the morning of the 4th from the Pennsylvania election indicated that Hartrarift (Rep.) for Governor would have aboijt 17,000 majority. j The new Legislature of New Jersey is composed as follows: Seuute- -Republicans, 12; Democrats, 9. House—Republicans, 37; Democrats, 23. The Tammany ticket was defeated at the recent election in New York city. Recorder Hackett was elected by over 6,000 majority, and Morrissey was elected State Senator by about 2,000 majority. The news received up to the morning of the 4th rendered it probable that the Democratic State ticket, was elected. The Albanv Evening Journal puts the Democratic majority in the State at between 8,000 and 9,000. The Legislature is Republican—Senate by 12 and House by 16 majority. The Arkansas General Assembly convened on the 2d and the Governor’s message was read. "-* ■ The official count of the recent election in lowa gives Kirkwood 31,745 majority for Governor. A Jackson (Miss.) dispatch of the 3d says the Democrats had carried that State, electing their entire ticket in nearly every county. They would have about thirty majority in the House and six or eight in the Senate The Democrats also elected the entire Con gressional delegation with the possible exception of the Bixth District, and returns indicated success' in it. All was peace, and no disturbance was reported anywhere. A St. Paul dispatch of the 4th says Pillsbury (Rep.) for GoVernor of Minnesota would have about 12,000 majority. Pfaender (Rep.) for Treasurer ran behind his ticket, but was probably elected. Legislature Republican. Returns received by the Albany Argus of the sth give Bigelow (Dem.) for Secretary of State of Nqw York 16,798 majority, with a prospect of a further increase. The Congressmen elected on the 2d are: First Massachusetts District, Wm. W. Crapo (Rep.); First Mississippi, Louis Q. C. Lamar (Dem.), re-elected; Second, G. Wiley Welles (Rep.); Third, H. D. Money (Dem.); Fourth, O. R. Singleton (Dem.); Fifth, C. E. Hooker (Dem.); Sixth, Roderick Beal, (Dem.); Thirtythird New York, Nelson I. Norton (Rep.); Oregon, Henry Warren (Rep.). The official count of the election returns in Colorado.shows that the Territorial Legislature will he compOßed as foliowsrUouncil— Republicans, 4; Democrats, 9. House—Republicans, 16; Democrats, 10. According to a Milwaukee telegram of the 7th Ludington’s (Rep.) majority for Governor of Wisconsin would be about 1,000. Kuehn (Dem.), for State Treasurer, was probably elected. The Republicans had a majority of seven in the State Senate and one in the House.