Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1876 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

Omciat. ret«r«r*Mte'4o the Burea«of Statistic* show that during the fiscal year ended June *i, lOTft, there arrived .In the United States »*7* Chiqesc Immigrants, of Whoa 0n1y258 weVe ftmaics. During the cormpondtng period of 1875, the total ImMigration to the United State* from China win: W,4M, of whom eighty-two were to iWannsoTOi telegram of the 29th ult: say* Geo. U. Cowell, Chief Clerk of the Poe to fllce Department, and a personal friend ofltr. Jewell, had been requested to resign, and had done so, the resignation to take effeat on th« Slat. A Washington special of the 29th ult atstaa that the President said he had it in hit power to completely clear himself from the charges made by ex-Bolicltor Wilson, and that he would certainly do so. Tns public debt statement for July, published on the Ist, shows the following: Coin bonds outstanding 11,096,884,450; total debt, •8,188,700,111; cash in Treasury, $105,249,984; debt leas bash in the Treasury, $2,098,801 All; decrease daring July, 81,188,038. Tns President, on the Ist, issued bis proclamation announcing the admission of Colorado as a State of the Union. A Vauunotok telegram of the 81st ult. says the President had requested the resignation of Supervising-Architect Potter. The Chicago Tr&mtept the Ist states that Mr. Potter had said that he retired from the position Voluntarily and in pursuance of a plan foraod soma-time ago, and denied having received a hint from the President that his resignation would be acceptable. Tan United Btate* Senate, on the Ist, sitting as a Court of Impeachment, voted to acquit ex-Sec'y Belknap, the vote standing thirty-live for conviction, 1 and twenty-flve for acquittal l —less than the two-thirds required to convict. On the second article thirty-six voted guilty, and twenty-flve not guilty. Twenty-three of those voting not guilty stated that their reason for doing sb was a want of jurisdiction. The following Is the vote in detoil: For C'eatiettoaHSayard, Booth, Cameron (Pa.), Cockrell. Cooper, Davis, Dawes. Dennis, Edmonds, Gord -s, Hamilton, Harvey, H tchcuck, Kelly, Kernan, Key. McCreery McDonald, Msrri mou, Mitchell, Merrill, N„rwooi, Oglesby, Randolph, Ransom, Robertson. Sargent, Stuisbury, Sherman. Stevenson, Thurman, Wadlelgh. Wallace, Whyte, Withers. Conover, Craad*, Dorsey, Baton, Bjny, Kreling-hnvi-en, Usman. Howe, Ingalls, Jones (Nev.), Logan. McMUlla. Paddock, Patterned, Spencer, Wret, Windent, Wright ~r Absent or Hot Voting— Alcorn, Bogy, BornMdo, Clayton, Eaglish, Johnston. Jones (Kla.l, Maxey, Mortup. Sosroa. Mr. Juoea.pf Florda. declinedioTOO en the ground Thar fte Senate had no jurisdiction. Messrs. Oowpver and Wright voted for acquittal on the ground that they believed the chargee ware n6t snetained. Tu Secretary of <thd Treasury has in- * structed the various sub-Treasury offices throughout the country to payout silver coin in exchange (pr legal tender notos, and inordinary disbursements of the Gprernmefii . ” *, l . ** ■ ■*} '

wu»*4«A Boston .tele@sm of the 38th s4ys that ■ex-Speakor Blaine was at Windham, Muss., greatly improved In health, and that he would soon be aElejUusiter upon his public duties. Thb candidates on the' Massachusetts State Prohibition ticket hare all withdrawn except those for Governor t and LieutenantGovernor, DcrinO July the Philadelphia mint coined 34,150 pieces of gold valued at $688,000; silver, numbered pieces, 1,154,500; value, $258,800; base metal, number' of pieces, 735,000; value, $15,150; total nufnber of pieces, 1,833,650; total value, $856,450. What is pronoauced to be a splendid statue of Washington arrived atf Philadelphia on the Ist, from Leghorn, Italy, having been 110 days on the voyage. H is twelve feet high, cut from one block ot marble, and will be put on a pedestal eighteen feet high, near the Main Building on the Exposition grounds. At the municipal election in Portsmouth, N. H-, on the Ist, the Republicans elected their candidate for Mayor by a majority of 333. Gold closed in New York on the 3d a IIIK The following were the dosing quotations for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, 94e@«J.05; No. S Milwaukee, 95 @1.07; Oats, Western Mixed, So@3sc; Corn, Western Mixed, 5 @s6c; Pork;. Mess, $19.75; Lard, U&c; Flour, good < to choice, $455@5 09; White Wheat Extra, $5.05(37.35. Cattle, BX@lo)fc for good to extra. Bheep, 4>4@6c.

At East Liberty;’ Fa., on the 2d, cattle brought: Best, $5.12*g55.40; medium, $L75@ $5.00; common, Hogs sold— Yorkers, [email protected]; Philadelphia*, $7.«5® 7.10. Bbeep brought SLOO@S 25, accenting to quality. TiSi ' * WEST Alfß SOUTH. Is the free-for-all trotting race at Cleveland on the 27th, Goldsmith Maid took the first two heats in 2:15* and 2:17*. The stallion Smuggler won the remaining three bents —the third, fourth and fifth—and the race in the extraordinary time of 2:16*, 2 ; 19X * n d 2:17*, Goldsmith Maid coming -in second. ' - ; The Nebraska Republican State Convention i* to be held at Lincoln on the' 26th of euftanaber. TjSVUr. Nathan Gore is the Republican candidate for Governor of West Virginia. ..ySkfi first Prohibition State Convention in ‘ Kentucky waa held in Louis ville on the 27th. "Green Clay Smith, Prohibition candidate for President, was present and made a speech. A State General Committee and Electors were appointed, and the National platform of the party sms read and adopted. Tan Democratic State Convention of Illinois was held at Springfield on the 27th, and nominated the following ticket; For Governor, Lewis Stewart, (Independent candidate for same office); Lieutenant-Governor, A. A. Glenn jj? Secretary of State, 8. Y. Tborntem; Auditor, John Hise (also on the Independeut ticket for same office); State Treasurer, George Gundlaeh; Attorney-General, E. Lynch. The resolutions adopted endorse the platform and nominees of the 8t Louis t Convention, and call on the Legislature to fenlfe some plan to prevent convict labor jOrdti ekming in eoinpctttion with free labor. BrosMetstUl elector* were also chosen. It was reported from Louisville oo the fifth that Col. Wharton, United States Dis-

trict Attorney for Kentucky, had been re moved, ajffffl. P.Tlnley*had been appdffted* as his adpeaaor. A CAUL has bean Issqftd for the Democrat-' 1c Htoth ConventipD of Colorado to mMt at Manftou oafehc 29thof August. W A raw days ago a six-year-old daughter of Mrs. Burge, of Mason CjJt|,lowa, during the absence at a neighbor’s biT her" mother, threw a quantity of kqMftne oil Into the stove, with the usual' terrible result, she being terribly and fatally burned. A nlPbar was published In tU Chicago and 88. 1 Louis papers of the 2Utb ult. that Gen. Crook’s command bad met with a terrible disaster In a light with the Indians. The report proved unfounded. Tnn Arkansas Republican Btate ticket, nominated by the Convention In session at Little Rock on the 28th ult., is beaded by A. W. Bishop for Governor, and W. L. Copeland (colored) for Secretary of State. News was received at Fort Laramie on the 29th ult. that Crazy Bull, with thirty lodges, was on the Way to the. Red Clond Agency, having deserted Sitting Bull a camp, being tired of the war and anxious to make a treaty. A small party of men from the fflack Hills arrived at Omaha on the 81st ult.,and are reported to have brought with them SBOO,OOO in gold dust. One of them, it Is said,had $75,0u0. At Salt Lake City on the 81st uIL, Judge Schaeffer rendered a decision in the suit of Ann Eliza r*. Brigham Young, to recover alimony, the decision reducing the amount made payable by the order of Judge McKean from SSOO to $l9O per month, thus diminishing the amount from $17,5Q0 to $3,600, and giving the defendant thirty days in which to pay the amount, and providing in default of such payment that execution shall Issue against his property. Tun Indian version of the Custer fight agrees in its main features with the accounts from other sources. It was announced on the 81st ult. that all the cavalry on duty In Southern Kansas, Texas and the Indian Territory had been ordered to jqln Gen. Terry or Gen. Crook. Joint Loughborough, a member of the Arkansas State Senate from the Little Roek District, was found dead in his house on the afternoon of the 81st ult., shot through the heart. Investigation developed the fact that he had committed suicide. An official dispatch was received at Omaha on the Ist, from Camp Brown, Wyoming Territory, which gays Indian scouts had bronght intelligence that the hostile Indians were moving southeast, and at last accounts were at the head of the Little Powder River. It was thought they were making for the agencies^

Ox the Ist, a row-boat on Bawbeese Lake, east of Coldwater, Mich , overturned when about 200 yards from shore, mid of the seventeen men, women and children therein, pjne were drowned. The victims resided at Coldwater, and left in the morning to attend a picnic on the shores of the lake. Thb verdict of the Coroner’s jury in the case of the victims of the Hamburg (8. C.) troubles, charges the crime of murder upon Gen. M. C. Butler, Col. A. P. Butler, Pierce Butler and the Rev. J. Meeling, and fiftythree other citizens of Aiken and-Edge-field counties, and also upon thirty citizens of Georgia. Warrants for the arrest of all the parties implicated by the verdict were put in the hands of the Sheriff of Aiken County on the Ist, and would be served it once, and it was said Gov. Cbsmberkin would immediately issue s requisition upon the jjovernor of Georgia for the surrender of the thirty citizens of that State. A. H. Colquitt is the Democratic candidate Tor Governor of Georgia. In a letter to the Chairman of the Indiana Republican State Central Committee, under date of August 2, Godlove S. Orth tendered his declination as candidate for Governor, on the ground that he had Eden tkmvineed he would not receive the united support of the party in the State. Gbn. Samuel F. Cart, of Ohio, has been placed on the National Independent ticket for Vice-President in place of Senator Booth, declined. Mr. Cary has accepted the nomination, which was made by the National Independent Council appointed by the Indianapolis Convention. In Chicago, jOn the 2d, Spring 2, closed at SB@BBs£c. cash. Cash corn closed at 46c for No. 2. Cash oats No. 2 sold at 9034@8OJ$c; September optlops were sold at SoJ£c. Rye No. 2, 55@55%c. Cash mess pork closed at $18.40 @18.50. Lard, $10.85(310.90. Good to choice beeves brought [email protected]; medium grade*, $4.25(34.40; butchers’ stock; *2.90@ 3.60; stock cattle, etc M sß.oo@*.sd. Hogs brought $6.90@6 60 for good to choice. Sheep Bold at $3.00@450 fp*-good, to choice. f j

WRRICN INTELLIGENCE. A London dispatch of the 28th says the great powers had definitely decided, to interfere in Servi>Turkish affairs. A telegram from Gala to reports that 70,000 Tschenkessens in Caucassus have revolted against the Russians. Dervish Pasha, the Turkish commander in Bosnia, has issued a proclamation prohibiting quarter to Christians. Special telegrams to a Paris paper of the 80th ult. say 300 Chris tans had been tortured and drowned . in the villages of Pervan and Temar, twelve women cut to pieces at Pavics, sixty chil* dren stoned to death at Rathlovo, 180 girls murdered at Sokolovo, and 8,000 Christians massacred at Prigedorn. A severe engagement took place near Urbleas,on the 29thult, between the Turks, under Moukhter Pasha, and the Servians. The latter were victorious, capturing many prisoners. The Turks who attacked the Montenegrins on the 28th were completely defeated. Sqdhkhaxx, Sweden, has been recently almost enti rely-destroyed by fire. London dispatches of the B<st ult say the Bashi-BazourF atrocities had created intense excitement throughout Greece, and her relations with Turkey were becoming very serious. She had issued a note to the Great Powers, expressing a fear that she would be unable to prevent a war wi h Turkey. A Berlin telegram of the same date says the Russian General Von Kaufman, the conqueror of Khiva, had gone to the Servian camp and would assume the c>mmand of Uie Servian forces. Russia had decided to withdraw her Envoy from Constantinople. A Widdin dispatch of the 81st ult says the Turks entered Bervia at Grain ads, on the 29th, and were driving the enemy everywhere before them. , "" * The London Tima of the 81st ult says Dr, Butcher, Archbishop of Ireland, whose death reported on the 29th, committed suicidcwhile delirious. -*

According to Ragusa telegrams of the Ist The Turkish loss la the recent fight Bcsr •Treblqje was: ScUqi Pasha killed, Osman l'asba taken prisoner, ami two eoloncls, threeiieutenantAloucl*, «4\en minors and froWB,(IO01«» fl.fiW mctrtelled, wounded or missing. Two battalions of Infantry and one of chasseurs were destroyed to the last man. r Paris dispakhc* to tho London, Standard of the Ist saV'tbat Austria had selected England as arbiter In the solution of the conflict between TWkey and Servla. An Insurrection has broken out in Albania, and Is rapidly spreading throughout the province. The headquarters of the rebellion are at Bcutri. Roylton & Dixon, Iron ship-builders, of Mid(tlcsborough, England, failed op the Ist Their liabilities are four and a quarter million dollars. Th* ship Geltwood, from Liverpool for Melbourne, was recently lost with alLop board, off Cape Northumberland, on the south coast of Australia. A Paris telegram of the 2d announces that the Sultan Murad Uffeudi had already signed his abdication of the Ottoman throne. Abdul Hamid, his successor, had declared that he would take personal command of the armies operating against the Sclaves. According to a Constantinople dispatch of the 2d the Arab Shieks at Mecca had offered 200,000 Arabian troops to the Turkish Government. Bblgradb telegrams of the 2d say Russia had sent an army of observation to her frontier. Thr clerks of the Bank of Nova Scotia and the Provincial Treasurer’s office at Halifax, N. 8., on the Ist, locked the doors and went off to see a circus procession. When they returned they found that thieves had been there and robbed the bank of $17,500 and the Treasurer’s office of SI,OOO and valuable papers. / . ;f

CONG R ESSION AL. The death of Senator Caperton was announced in the Senate, on the 27th, and a committee of four Senators was appointed to accompany the remains to hi- late home in West Virginia. out of respect to the memory of the deceased the Senate then adjourned. . In the House, the senate bill appropriating SIOO,OOO for the compielou of the Washington Monument was passed, with amendments, one of which increases the amount to S2O ,0«'. Announcement was made of the deith of Senator C-per tan, the usual resolutions of respect were adopted, and a committee was appointed to accompany the remains to West Virginia. In the Senate, on the 28th, a new conference was agreed to on the Consular, and Diplomatic Appropriation bill. The House amendments to the bill providing for the coracle lion of the Washington Monument were Agreed to, and tire bill was passed The River and Harbor Appropriation bill was recommitted, with instructions tnat the committee report the bill so that toe tot* 1 amount appropriated shall not exceed $5,000,000. The House bi 1 for the etle of the usage ceded lands, is Kansas to actual settlers was tak- a up and amended. Adjourned to ihe 315 t... .In the Bouse, in the Virginia con tet'ed election case of Platt vs. Goode, the minor ty report, that Goode, the sitting member, is entitle lio the seat, was agr ed to—los to 97. The Conference report on the Military Academy bill was adopted. Senate not in sessioa on the 29th.... In the Honse, the bill passed by both fcionses extending the time for the redemption of land sold for airect taxes was called up and amended so as to exclude the possibility of its being construed to affect the National cemeteiy, and was passed as amended. An. evening session was heljl far general debate. In the Senate, on the 31st ult., the resolution prohibiting the supply of special metallic cartridges to hostile Indians waif passed. Bills were passed—authorizing an increase in the cavalry force, not more than 2,500 men to be enlisted under the act; House bills, to provide temporarily for the expenses of the Government, ana to continue public printing In-advance of the regular appropriation, until August 10. The Impeachment trial was proceeded with, and the final question was discussed with closed doors, and au order was adopted that in voting on the question of guilt each Senator might state his reasons for his vote, occupying not more i han a minute in so do ng.... In the House, a number o bill* were introduced and referred. Thehniiiority report of the Committee on Naval Affairs was rejected—yeas 59, nays 115. Bills were passed ex ending the appropriations for Ihe various departments to August IU. A message was TeceiTed from- the President pointing out what be considered some of the defects of the ~ Sundfy Civil Appropriation bill m making inadequate provision for some, and none at all for otherbratiebes of the public service, and staling that he did not feel warranted in vetoing the bill, bnt deemed it Msdhty to show where the responsibility belonged for any embarrassments caused by Us def«c(*. ’ .

In the Senate, on the Ist, a message was received from the President transmitting copies of the corredpdadence between himself and Gov. Chamberlain, and other reports in regard to the recent troubles M Hamburg, 8. C. A new Conference < ommlttde was appointed on the Consular and liiplomatic Appropriation bill A joint resolution was passed providing for the restoration of the w riting pf the original Declaration of ndependence. The Conference report on the Military Academy Appropriation bill was agreed to. House bine were passed- to establish a new land district in the Temtqrv of Wyoming, to be known as the Evanstoa District) to create an additional land district in the Territory of Idaho; providing lor the sale of the Usage ceded finds in Kansas, with an amendment. Messrs. West and Cockrell werfe announced as members of the commission to consider the work of reorganiziug the army. The Imp achmeut trial was concluded bv a verdict of acquittal, the vote standing thirty-.five for conviction and twenty-five uotgmltv. being less than the twothirds required to convict. Eulogies were pronounced on the late Edward V Parsons, member of the Uoase from. Kentucky.... In the Hour», majority and minority reports were made from the Co n; it tee on the Real Estate Pool; accompanying former waa a resolution that the report and accompanying documents be printed and referred to the Judiciary Committee, with instructions to inquire into the alleged violations of law, ind ascertain the liability of George If. Robeapu. Secretary of the Navy, for su' h alleged acta; the m nority resolution was to the effect that the House find no cause of complaint or censure attaching to Secretary Robeson, growing out of hi* offlfeni transactions with the firm of Jay Cooke. McCulloch & Co. The majority report aud resolution were adopted. A bill was reported and paaeed appropriating *227,556 for the pavment of indebtedness incurred in the construction of the New York Postoffice building.

A srßsrmrir* for the House bill granting a pension to E. M. Hanaell, who waa injured while defending the late Secretary Seward from the assassin Payne. Was pa Hied in the Senate on the id—the substitute awards sS,ono. Several amendments to the Rivet and Harbor Appropriation, bill were agreed t 0.... In the House, a nnani-. mous report from the Committee on Expenditures ia the Interior JJepartmeut on tha Insane Asylum Investigation, and majority and minority drum ,«he same committee in regard to the survey of public lands, were made, oraered printed and recommitted. The Mil to trm 4er the Indian Bureau ¥ >ui the Interior to the War Department came up. and Mr. Lamar made a lengthy speech on political subjects. The Senate ameudmeat to the bill providing for the sale of Osage ceded lands in Kansas to actual settlers wen non-concurred in, and a Committee of Conference was ordered.