Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1876 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

ntOM WASHINGTON. BscsrrxßT Bristow, on the 17th, tendered hie reklcnsUon to the President, to take effect on the 90th. The resignation we* accepted. Mr. Briatow had contemplated this more for some Ume, his private affairs being such as to require his personal attention. Tie Grand Jury of the District of Columbia have indicted Blchard Harrington and Arthur B. Williams for bribery—the former being charged with having, in 1873, while Assistant United States Attorney, received $15,000 to have his decision and action Inlluenoed in the matter of a motion for anew trial in a murder case, and the latter with giving the money to Harrington aa a bribe. Mr. Bui hr received a letter on the 10th from Joslah Caldwell, dated at London, June Bth, authenticating the cablegram received eeversl days ago by the House Judiciary Committee. Bluford Wilson, Sollcitorof the Treasury Department, tendered his resignation on the 19th, to take effect on the Ist of J uly. Treasurer Nrw sent his resignation to the President on the Slat. Senator Morrill, of Maine, was, on the 21st, nominated br the President for Secretary of the Treasury, and his nomination was at once confirmed by the Senate. THE KANT. The White Elephant depot, near Hudson, N. T., and 400 loaded cars, a propeller and two canal boats were burned on the night of the 18th. Loss about $1,000,000. A Philadelphia dispatch of the 19th says s very dangerous counterfeit had just made its appearance there, and was being freely circulated. It is a flve-dollar note, counterfeiting the issue of the First National Bank of Northampton, Mass., and is an excellent im£ tation. The New Hampshire Legislature, on the 20th, elected E. H. Rollins (Rep.) to succeed Mr. Cragin in the United States Senate. The vote stood: Senate—Rollins, 8; Sinclair, 3. House—Rollins,2oo; Sinclair, 170. An item having been published in an Eastern paper to the effect that the silver quarterdollars having M C. C." under the eagle are counterfeit, an exchange atatea that the statement is unfounded, those two letters being the mark of the Carson City mint. Another distinguishing feature is the difference in the size of the stars, those on the coinage of the Carson City mint being larger than those on the coinage of the Philadelphia mint Gold closed In New York, on the 21st at 112%- The following were the closing quotations for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat [email protected])4; No. 2 Milwaukee, sl.lß ®L2O; Oats, Western 32®35c; Mixed, Cora, Western Mixed, 54®59)4c; Pork, Mem, $19.75; Lard, ll)£c; Flour, good to choice, 15.20A5.85; White Wheat Extra, $5.7007.75. Cattle, 9@10)4c for good to extra. Sheep (shorn), 4®6cAt East Liberty, Pa., on the 91st cattle brought: Best $5-25®5.35; medium, $4.50 ®&00; common, $4.00®4.25. Hogs sold— Yorkers, [email protected]; Philadelphias, $6.30® 6.45. Sheep (shorn) brought $4.00®5.00 according to quality. WEST AND SOUTH. Mbs. Abraham Lincoln, who last year was adjudged insane and sent to an asylum, has recovered, and has been restored to the possession of her estate by the same court which declared her demented. At the first annual session of the American Nurserymen’s Association, recently held in Chicago, a formal organisation was effected. E. Moody, of Lockport, N. Y., was chosen President for the ensuing year; several VicePresidents were also elected. The Secretary U Dl W. Scott Treasurer, A. R. Whitney, of Franklynton, Ill.; Executive Committee, T. S. Hubbard, L. K. Scofield and J. J. Harrison. The next annual meeting is to be held in Chicago. —— The Democrats of Arkansas have nominated a State ticket headed by R. W. Miller for Governor. Later returns from the Oregon election, received in Ban Francisco on the 15th, indicated that the Republicans and Independents would tie the Democrats in the Legislature, rendering the election for United States Senator doubtful. ( A report was received at Denver, on the 16th, that the Sioux Indians had attacked a cattle round-up at Fremont’s Orchard, about eighty miles down the Platte, killing fifteen men, and driving off all the stock. The set- . m sanaliAavawit r on namn mu w iwwwy wiwr xmicuqb kuu cuiu.cu* trating at theuearest settlements. The committee appointed by the Cincinnati Convention to notify Gov. Hayes of his nomination for the Presidency were received at the Executive Chamber in Columbus, on the evening of the 17th. Mr. McPherson, of Pennsylvania, on behalf of the committee, made formal verbal announcement to the Governor of the action of the Convention. Gov. Hayes briefly responded, accepting the nomination and saying that he should, at a future time, present his acceptance in writing with his views on the platform adopted by the Convention.

A Baton Rouge (La.) telegram of the 19th aaya a disturbance had occurred at Mt. Pleasant, near Port Gibson, on the 17th. “The negroes, following the example of the whites, organized a band of regulators and ordered a Democratic negro to leave the place. Refusing to leave, he was attached by the Agnlators and killed. The constable and his posse attempted to arrest the murderers, bnt were driven off. The Sheriff of Baton Rouge, with a posse, went to Mt Pleasant, on the 18th, and captured fourteen negroes, including the murderers. The Sheriff’s posse making the arrests* report being fired'upon by negroes. Two of them were wounded and taro horses killed. Th* steamer Nellie Peck reached Bronx City on the afternoon as the 90th, from Fort Benton, (wincing several miners from Deadwood. They came for supplies,, and brought •90,000 in gold dust with them. A Nsw Orleans dispatch of the 90th reports the hanging of 'five negroes at Mount Pleasant, by white Regulators. A Fort Fxttzbman dispatch of the 20th aaya reporta had ]uat been received there from Gen. Terry’s expedition. He was reported to be on the south side of the Fellowstone, endeavoring io effect a junction with Gibbons’ column, which was being held at bay by the Sioux. Gen. Tory was .also

greatly hasmsed by them. A battle waa momentarily expected. In Chicago, on the 21st, spring wheat. No 9 closed at $1.03® 1.03)4 cash. Cash corn rioted at4s%c for No. % Cash oats No. 2, sold at 99*@29Xc; July option, were sold at «#s4c. Rye No. 9,«@«®)4e. Barley, No. 2, 57%®58c. Cash mess pork closed at SIB.BO ® 18.82)4- Lard, [email protected]. Good to choice beeves brought $4.2fc®4.85; medium grades, $4.00®4.25; butchers’ stock, $3.00® 8.75; stock cattle, etc., $8.50®4.0Q. Hog» brought $5.85®6.15 for good to choice. Sheep (shorn) sold at $3.00®4.25 for good to choice. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. The celebrated German Oriental scholar, Dr. Julius Heinrich Petermann, is dead. A Circassian named Haasan, forced his way Into the Grand Vizier’s residence, at Constantinople, on the 15th, and assassinated Hassicn Avnl Pasha, Turkish Minister of War, Rachid Pasha, Minister of Foreign Affairs, a servant of Mldhat Pasha and a soldier. Kaiseril Pasha, Minister of Marine, and another soldier were wounded. Constantinople dispatches of the 16tb say the investiture of the Sultan had been postponed. The Servian army was on the frontier, and Russian men-of-war were assembling at Sevastopol. The extensive carpet works and woolen manufactory of James Templeton, at Ayr, Scotland, was burned on the 16th. The (Ire waa caused by the friction of the machinery. The operatives were at work at the time. The overseer and twenty-four women perished In the flames. The factory was totally destroyed. Loss, $200,000. A dispatch from Calcutta, India, received in London on the ISth, reports an alarming outbreak of cholera in Gulwoda, a village on the Bombay A Boroda Railway. Of 200 Inhabitants, 100 died in three days. It was reported on the 18th that the Turks in Bosnia had unfurled the green flag for a holy war against the Christians. St. Johns, Canada, was visited by a destructive fire on the 18th, by which a territory 600 feet wide and a mile in length, embracing the entire business portion of the town, was burned over. Seven hotels, nine churches, the Custom-House, Court-House, Postoffice and other public buildings, together with 250 stores and houses, were destroyed, involving a loss of about $2,000,000, and rendering about 200 families homeless. Four or five persons were seriously burned. Constantinople dispatches of the 17th say the Porte had decided to complain of Austria for continuing to allow the insurgent volunteers to cross into Turkey. Hassam, the assassin, was hanged on the morning of the 17th. He was known as a devoted follower of the late Sultan. It is said be intended to kill Avnl Pasha only. A Constantinople telegram of the 19th says the Ministers of the Bultan differed among themselves on the question of creating a National Assembly, and the promised Constitution would be indefinitely postponed. Brent, the Louisville (Ky.) forger, was discharged from custody, in London, on the 19th, by the Courtof Queen’s Bench. An explosion of coal gas occurred on board the ship Atlanta, at Cardiff, Wales, on the 19th k which caused the death of six men, and injured several others. A Constantinople dispatch to a Berlin paper, of the 20th, says the mother of the late Sultan Instigated Hassan to assassinate Avni Pasha, and furnished him with all the necessary Information of the Minister’s movements by means of spies whom she employed for that purpose. A Rag usa telegram of the 20th says information had been received from Sclavonic sources that the insurgents had destroyed toe town of Allapusa and killed 200 Turks. Jambs Baird, es Combusdoon, the millionaire Iron master who recently gave $2,500,000 to the Scotch Church, died on the 20th. A Louvain (Belgium) telegram of the 21st saya there was great excitement there in consequence of the hostile demonstrations against the Liberal students in the University. Bome of toe lectures had been suspended an&toe civic guards called out According to a London telegram of the 21st, the number of deaths from the plague in Bagdad during May was 1,122. CONGRESSIONAL. The Senate, on the 15th, insisted upon Its amendments to the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill, and a Conference Committee was appointed.... Bills were passed in the House—providing that imported block marble may be bonded in open yards, nnder the care of the officers of customs, at the expense of the owner or importer; authorizing the construction of a railroad bridge across the Wabash River. A Conference Committee was appointed ou the Senate amendments to the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill. Consideration of the Belknap articles of Impeachment was resumed in the Senate, on the 16th. Hr. Black, of the'coansel for the acriiSOduECidl long iirdar JaAHnino C dlarJ. fnr m - WWW*- - ther, on the ground that the respondent had' already been substantially acquitted, as the order of the Senate asserting its jurisdiction was not passed by a two-thirds vote. Objection was made to the filing of the paper, and during the discussion which followed it was discovered that there was not a quorum present.... The House wentinto Committee of the Whole on the Army Appropriation bill, and several amendments were offered and rejected. *

In the Senate, sitting as a Court of Impeachment. on the 17th, Judge Black, of the counsel for ex-Secretary Belknap, moved that the trial be postponed until November, and expressed a hope that the Managers would consent to such postponement; leave was granted to the Managers to consult with the House on the subject. A message was received from the President calling attention to the approach of the new flacal year, and the failure of Congress, so far, to make provisions for the ordinarv expenses of the Government; also to the laws forbidding the expenditure of unexpended balances, and reenirine that they be covered into the Treasury at the end of the fiscal y«u: and farther stating that, if the Appropriate ills are not matured before the beginning of the new fiscal year, the Government will be greatly embarrassed for want or funds; he snbmUtad a joint resolution, which was ordered printed and to lie on the table, to extend the appropriations for the Consular, Diplomatic an d Postal services, the support of the army, navy, etc., for the present fiscal year to the next.... In the House, the President's message relative to the Appropriation bills was, after debate, referred to the Committee on Appropriations. The question of tne postponement till November of the Impeachment trial was considered, but no decision whs reached. The bill to confirm to Chicago titles to certain public lands was passed. The Army Appropriation hill was considered and amended in Committee of the Whole.

The Senate, on the 19th, insisted upon ita amendments to the Poatofflee Appropriation hill, and a Conference Committee was appointed. Sitting as a Court of Impeachment, an order was •greed to that the paper presented by the defendant on the 16th be filed, and defendant having failed to answer to the merits within the ten dars allowed by the order of the Senate of the 6th, the trial will proceed on the 6th of July as upon a plea of not guilty; provided that impeachment can ocly proceed while Congress is in session. An order was also agreed to relative to witnesses for the defense, a committee being named to designate the witnesses to bo summoned at the Government expense, all others to be at the expense ofthe respondent... .In the House Mr. Cox was again appointed Speaker pro tem. in the absence of Mr. Kerr. The Army Appropriation bill was farther amended in Committee of the Whole,

reported to the Honse and pasted. A resolution offered on the 17th providing that CooKrce* should meet in November to proceed with the Impeachment trial was withdrawn. A Conference Committee wee appointed on the Poetofflce Appropriation bill. In the Senate, on the 20th, the House bill to repeal the bankrupt law waa reported and ordered poalponcd until the first day of the next aeeaion of Congress, A favorable report was made on the Honse’ Joint resolution, authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to Issue SIU.UM),OUU in silver coin, in exchange for legal-tender notes. A message was received from the President relative to the Extradition treaty with Great Britain, and criticising the action of that Government in the Winslow nnd Brent cases, which action, if adhered to, the President says, cannot hot be regarded as the abrogation and annulment of such treaty, and he will in future neither make nor entertain requisitions for the surrender of criminals The IntUan Appropriation bill was further considered anaamended, one of the amendments agreed to to committee being to strike out the section propo-ing to transfer the Indian Bureau to the War Department; the bill as amended was reported from Committee of the Wh01e.... Bills were passed in the House—to prevent the sale and use of adulterated and explosive illuminating oils: providing that whenever a party is lawfully entitled to a patent, if he delay to take out such patent, it aball have the same power when granted aa though issued at the time the party Was first entitled to it; for the equalization of bountios, allowing to all enlisted men—soldiers, sailors and marines (including slaves and Indians)-eight and one-third dollars per month between the 12th of April, ISM, and the 9th of May, 180 S, deducting all bounties already paid under United States or State laws - yeas. Ul; nays, 46. A report was read from the Committee on the Freedman's Bank, in which it is alleged that fraudulent vouchers and other false evidence of payment had been Issued by ex-Commlseioner Howard and Disbursing Officer Ballock, by which they obtained, improperly, credits for moneys alleged to have been paid out by them to colored soldiers, sailors and marines; the committee reported a bill, as a remedy for this evil, providing for the settlement of the claims for pay, bounty and prize money, or other moneys, dne to snch colored soldiers, sailors and marines, when it is established, on proper investigation, that they have failed to receive snch payment or settlements heretofore made: the bill also directs proper legal proceedings to 'be instituted against all persons who shall be shown to be implicated Id the frauds connected with the Freeamen’s Bureau; the report and bill were ordered printed and recommitted. The President’s message in regard to the Winslow case was read and referred in the Senate, on the 21st. The Hooae joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to issue $10,000,0001n sliver coin, in exchange for legaltender notes, was passed- with .an amendment providing that the trade dollar be not hereafter a legal-tender, and authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to limit the coinage thereof to such an amount as he may deem sufficient to meet the export demand for the same. The Indian Appropriation bill was taken np, and the third section of the Honse bill, abolishing the Indian Bureau and transferring the government of the Indians to the War Department, was stricken ontr*4 to 22 and the bill was passed.... The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was taken np in the House, la Committee of the Whole, and several amendments were disposed of.