Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1875 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

PORKIGN. * A London telegram of the 23d says the Carlist official organ claimed that Don Carlos had saved Cuba and the honor of Spain, his recent offer of a truce to Alphonr.o having induced the Americans to modify their demands. Cardinal Rauscher died on the 23d at Vienna. The Mercantile Bank of Leeds, England, suspended on the Mth with liabilities estimated at (550,000. The London Ttows of the 2615 says the British Government had bought of the Khedive of Egypt £1,000,000 worth of Suez Canal shares, and that the latter had been authorized to draw on the Rothschilds at sight for the amount. The French newspaper Lt Pay* was seized on the 25th for reproducing M. de Cassagnac’s speech to the Bonapartists of Bellville. A Madrid dispatch of the 25th announces that Gen. ttnesada had captured San Cristobal, with al! the Carliet positions in the neighbarheed of Pampeluna. The American residents and visitors in Berlin appropriately celebrated Thanksgiving Day. A sermon was preached by Rev. Dr. Thompson At the close of the religious services resolutions were adopted expressive of sorrow at the death of Vice-President Wil" soa and directing that a telegram of condolence be sent to the United States. The Nblic Prosecutor at Berlin, on the 35th, applied to the Senate to indict Count von Arnim for treason because of his alleged authorship of the pamphlet which recently appeared attacking Count Bismarck. A Paris dispatch of the 27th mourns the prevalence'Of hard times in that city. Worth, the anan -milliner, was reported to have lost very heavily by the pressure and to have become financially embarrassed, mainly, it is said, through the failure of prominent Americans. King Alphonzo’s eighteenth birthday was celebrated at Madrid on the 28th ult It was (reported that the King was about to take the Acid against the Carlists. A Berlin dispatch of the 28th ult says Montenegro and Servia•had concluded to form an offensive and defensive alliance in favor of Herzegovina and against Turkey. A Berlin special of the 29th ult. says a report prevailed that a charge of treason had been preferred against Count von Arnim.

DOMESTIC. TheTostmaeter-General, in his annual report, wilkoiecommend the rencal of that part of the amended Postal laws which increased the postage on transient newspapers. Acconding to statistics furnished by the Cincinnati Coniinercial there is at present a total of 'forty-two State and Territorial •Granges in the United States, and over 24,000 subordinate Granges, comprising a membership of about 1,450,000. This is an increase of 2.000 Granges and about 130,000 members over W 74. The receipts of the National Grange for 1874 were (229,533, and the expenditures $ 180,995. Jt is estimated that the Patrons have $lB,090,900 cash capital invested in their various enterprises, which include railroad and steam-boat-lines, banka, fire and life insurance com panics, ootton-gins and mills, packinghouses, fiouring-mills, elevators, grain warehouses, machinery manufactories, shipping associations' foundries, tanneries, cheese factories, etc. A six-dayt’ walking match between Daniel O’Leary, the Chicago pedestrian, and Edward 'Pay-son 'Weston was concluded at the Exposition building in Chicago on the night of the 20th. In the six days O’Leary walked sQ3:miles and Weston 451. At the conclusion of the match' O’Leary was presented with a gold medal as the champion walker of the world. 'He'Accomplished 500 miles in 142 hours and IS minutes, the fastest time on reeord. Gen. Sherman, in his annual report, says “the aggregatostrength of the line of the army, according to the last reports -received, is I,s4o.Officers and 24,031 enlisted men, made up as follows: Five regiments artillery, 780 officers anil 2,504 men; 10 regiments cavalry, 422 officers and 7,206 men; 25 regiments infan try .(G4B officers and 11,000 men. Available recruits, hospital stewards, ordnance sergeants, etc., 3,321. < A’Washington special of the 23d says orders viere that day issued at the Navy Department, in great secrecy,.for the fitting up of five more iron-clads,- making a total of twelve iron-clads-which, within three weeks, ted been made ready for active service, and embracing nearly all the available iron-clads er. the list

W. its .recent -session in Cincinnati the - Wcman’a-National Temperance Convention adopted resolutions recommending Gospel temperance prayer-meetings, cheap lunch and loffirigg houses, free reading-rooms and temperante reform clubs; urging American womei- to tnaia their.-children to avoid intoxicating liquort; expressing gratitude to God toat Secretary Bristowffiad -successfully exposed the corruptions of the, whisky ring, and recognizing the statesmanship of the Postnaaster*fi eneral in removing from his department all-ossistanta addicted to alcoholic beventires. Mrs. Aanie Wittenmyer was reeletted JL-«sident of the society. Among otter matters it -WM proposed to try. to keep the sale of .liqudt out of the Centennial gwMiodS'Dert year, Hrs. Wittenmyer remarking *thzt it .would require at least to do4k,wor'ta«&a<*.OTi<ii iiad bOsn paid already by a •bse.wer for the e*?lusive right to seK his bevetßge iusMte -the intloeure. Brig-^en.®«nett, Chief .of the Ordnwiee Bweaat, Foiled States Army, in his annml report saps the bureau lias for several years past rcFod attenuon to the necessity of an increase to the annual appropriation for arming and estopping the militia. Tke annual appropriation of 4'300,000 was made, in 1808, when the population the country was about At the present time, with a population of over 49/100,000, the amount appropriated is still the came, and it is impossible for his department to wed all the demands made upon it by the States and Territories. The last official report gives the following as the aggregate strength of the militia of the United States: Organized, 84,724; unorganized, and there is little doubt that were arms and military equipments more freely supplied the organized force would be greatly enlarged. The official count of all the Indians in the United States plaoes the total number at 226,090, of whom 10,000 are pot down as “ civflized," 135,000 as “ semi-civilized,” and 81,000 as *‘harbarons.” This enumeration does not include the Indians In Alaska.

A coal-oli w fluid lamp exploded tn the ix-droom Of Mrs. Charlotte Chew, of Camden, :N. J.,*n Bk mosilhg of the 2Sth, and Mis* UuffOw jgffiped out of bed, when her nitrhtO >thea caught fire and She opened a winder (or the second floor of the building) jumped or fell to tie ground and was so terribly injured that she died in a few minutes. The clothes of the mother also took fire, and before assistance could be rendered she was so dreadfully burned that she expired during the day, and William Chew, her son, was severely burned. Mr. Murray, editor of the South Bend (Ind.) Herald, recently had a misunderstand, ing with a lady printer and sub-editor in his ; employ and discharged her and afterward in- * serted an article in his paper offensive to |ier. She subsequently assaulted him on the street with a cowhide, which he attempted to take ; from her, and in the scuffle which ensued she was thrown to the ground. Justice) William Palmer took sides with the girl and Murray also assailed him editorially, for i which Mr. Palmer on the 23d shot Murray, j the ball taking effect in his lungs,, Inflicting I a severe and dangerous wound. A committee appointed by the National Grange to arrange a marriage ceremonial reported adversely, and were sustained. A New York dispatch of the 20th reports the suspension of the Manufacturers and Builders’ Bank, of that city. A run was begun on the People’s Savings Bank, the officers closing <the doors of the institution and taking advantage of the sixty-days’ notice which may be required of depositors. There was als« a slight run on the Security Savings Bank. .- ‘ The Southern Pacific Railroad Convention was recently held in St. Louis, at which delegates were in attendance from twenty-seven States and Territories. Resolutions were adopted to the effect that a Southern transcontinental railway from tlie Mississippi, vie £1 Paso, is imperatively demanded, and giving the -several reasons why such a road; should be constructed; that extensions of and-: •connections with this road should be built from the most eligible points to New Orleans, Memphis and Vicksburg; and from a point near the 103 d meridian to Vinita, in order to reach the Mississippi River and to connect with every road and harbor on the Atlantic coast; that the construction of such a line and branches can be best secured by the extension of Government aid to-such line and branches in the form of a guarantee or interest, not principal, on a limited amount of 5 per cent, construction bonds, payable in fifty years, so that the entire liability assumed shall not in any event exceed $2,000 per mile per annum, nor the interest on the actual cost of the line and said branches. Provisions were made by the convention for an address in this behalf to the people of the United States and to the President and Congress. The Indiana Supreme Court has recently decided, in the case of an attorney who brought suit to recover for services in procuring a divorce, that a promise made by a married woman to pay, after shh is divorced, for services rendered her by an; attorney during her coverture is void, and a promise made after she is divorced to pay the same is invalid for want of consideration. Washington advices of the 27th state that it had been ascertained from official sources in Spain that the negotiations between Spain and the United States were proceeding favorably. The rumors that difficulties had arisen were said to be absolutely incorrect, and the relations between the two countries might be regarded as excellent. - In his annual report Lieut.-Gen. Sheridan makes several important recommendations regarding the treatment of the Indians. He thinks tbeir care and management ought to be confided to the War Department, and that they ought to be subjected to the same laws and penalties as civilized people, instead of being left untrammeled and amenable to no laws. The report also favors a system of compulsory education, and advises that some measures be taken to settle the Black Hills question. Alfred Bevis, a distiller and one of the witnesses in the trial at St. Louis of Wm. Q. Avery, havingmentioned, in giving his evidence, a rumor that Secretary Bristow was interested in a distillery or liquor-house at Louisville, Ky., the Secretary, on the 27th, sent a telegram, to the United States District-Attorney at St. Louis emphatically denying the rumor, and stating that he did not desire the matter to rest upon his denial, but requested that “ every person whose name has been or can be giyeuyou as having knowledge of such alleged facts, shall be brought before the Grand Jury and subjected to the most rigid examination.’’ The Secretary further says: “I beg to repeat the request heretofore communicated to you, that these frands on the Government shall be probed to the very bottom; that every ramification of the ring shall be followed in every part from beginning to end, and that no one having connection with or guilty knowledge of its operations shall be permitted to escape. So far as this department is concerned, I ask that every allegation against any officer of it, from its. bqad to its humblest employe, be thoroughl investigated and vigorously prosecuted, — any ground exists therefor. I have read this to the President, who repeats his injunction: ‘ Let no guilty man escape? ” PERSONAL IScited States Senator Ferry, of Connecti-cut,-died at his residence in Norwalk, Conn., on tffe afternoon of the 21st from softening of the spinal.marrow. . Thejjuxy in the ease of ex-Supervisor McDonald, on trial at St. Louis for complicity in whiskydrauds, after three hours’ consultation onAhe 22d, rendered a verdict of guilty on all the. eight counts of the indictment. Sentenoeweas suspended until after the trial of the other parties implicated. By the 'death of Vice-President Wilson Senator Shomas W. .Ferry, of Michigan, President proAemport of the Senate, becomes a-vffijcio Vlce-ft-esident of the UnitedsStates. The trial .of William <©. Avery, late Chief Clerk of the Jzternal Betenue Bureau at Washington, was begun at St. Louis <an the ! 23d. The uidictnents against him eLarge him with conspiring with McDonald, to defraud the Government revenue. An election of officers was held in tie Nttional Grange on the 23d, with the fallowing result: Master, John T. Jones, of' Arkansas; Overseer, J. J. M’oodman, of I Michigan; Lecturer, A. B. Smedley, of Iowa; Steward, A. J, Vaughn, of Mississippi; Assistant Steward, Mortimer Whitehead, of New Jereey; Chaplain, £. H. of Ohio; Treasurer, F. M. McDowell; Secretary, O. HL Kelley, of •Kentucky; Gatekeeper, 1 0. Dinwiddie, of Indiana; Ceres, Mrs. J. T. Jones, of Arkansas; Pomona, Mrs. Goddard, of Connecticut; Flora, Mrs. Adams, of Minnesota; Assistant Steward, Miss Carrie Hall, of Louisville. William B. Astor, eldest son of the late | John Jacob 'As tor, and one pf thg wealthiest I

men in New Fortt city, died on the 24th. He leaves f forte® r oLpearly or .quite |80,000,000{ Five cbild£n survive him-—three sons afi teo dßughteva. was over elghfi years Cff age. , 1 At afeustaess mtgting qfßrooklyn Plymouth Church, held on ffle evening of the 26th, an answer to Mrs. Moulton’s demand for an investigation was read, in which the ground was taken that her accusations against Mr. Beecher were not a good defense for her past conduct; nevertheless her proposition for a call of a mutual- council of churches is accepted. lion. John Turner, a well-known Wisconsin attorney and editor of the Mauston (Wis.) Shir, attempted suicide by shooting, at the Vilas House, In Madison, on the 26th. Last fall Mr. Turner defended a Mrs. Ingersol upoirthe charge of murdering her husband and secured her acquittal. Latterly she had preferred the charge of forgery against him In the settlement of an insurance claim. At last accounts Mr. Turner was very low and small hopes of his recovery were entertained. H. R. Clum, Chief Clerk, A. 8. B. White, and about a dozen other prominent clerks of the Interior Department at Washington were removed or transferred on the 27th by Secretary Chandler. These removals were baaed upon the recommendation of Commissioner Smith, and make a clean sweep of all the clerks associated for any considerable time with the past history of the bureau. Ex-Gov. English, of Connecticut, has been appointed by Gov. Ingersoll to fill the vacancy in the United States Senate caused by the death of Hen. O. 8. Ferry. The Moody and Sankey meetings in Philadelphia were very largely attended on the 28th. At the women’s meeting in the afternoon 150 ladies stood up for prayer and at the young men’s meeting in the evening 100 young men made similar requests. The interest in the work continued unabated. Mr. Beecher was on the 27th subprenaed as a witness in the libel suit of Mr. Bowen against the Brooklyn U»wn.

POLITICAL. The official returns of the election in Oregon give Laue (Dem.) for Congress a majority of 26-7. The South Carolina Legislature began its annual session at Columbia on the 23d. The Indiana Republican State Convention has been called to meet at Indianapolis on the 22d of next February, to nominate a State ticket, including candidates for Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of State, etc., and to select delegates to the next National Republican Convention and nominate fifteen candidates for Presidential Electors to be chosen at the general election in November next. The State election will occur on the second Tuesday in October. The official majority for the new ConstitUtiou*in Missouri is 76,238. The Constitution went into effect Nov. 30. The Cherokee National Council of the Indian Territory on the 27th counted the votes cast at the, election last August, and declared Charles Thompson elected Principal Chief by eleven majority over Ross. The Ross men have a majority in both houses of the Council.