Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1876 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

SF* won wAUHmroN. AcoMMiWHhM been appointed In Washington to iniae fluids for the assistance of the people ot Savannah, Go. Like committees have bees appointed In New York, Philadelphia and other Eastern cities. Great suffering exists In the stricken dtp, especially among the poor and destitute. A Washington dispatch of the 90th says it was understood there that the papers were being made out, at the request of the President, equalising the sentences of the Imprisoned Chicago revenue defrauders, by Virtue of which Hesing and others of the “ second batch” would be released. Each prisoner, before his discharge, will have to pay a fine of tl/ftb

THE EAST. f The Republicans of the First Connecticut District have nominated Gen. Joseph R. Hawley for Congress. Writs of error have been taken out in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, in the cases of the five “Mollie Maguires” recently convicted and sentenced to be hung for murder in Schuylkill County. The writs were made returnable in January next, and the prisoners will not be hanged for several months to come, if they are hanged at all. Judge Westbrook, ot New York, has granted an injunction restraining President Grant and the Secretary of State from issuing a mandate for the surrender of Leopold Vettel, demanded for extradition by the Austrian authorities, on the charge of forgery. Tub cash receipts at the Centennial Exhibition on the 15th were over HO,OOO, the best paying day yet had. A telegram says the attendance had very largely Increased with thia month. Tub newly-elected Maine Legislature stands as follows, politically: House, 120 Republicans and thirty-one Democrats; Senate, twenty-nine Republicans and two Democrats.

Th* International Rifle match at Creedmoor, L. 1., has resulted in a substantial victory flor the Anerican team, which won by twenty-two in a score of 8,126 points. The second prise is awarded to the Irish team, which made 8,104. All parties seemed satisfied with the result except the Scotch team, who protested against the Americans enlisting the services of Gildersleeve and Bodine at the last moment. Victoria C. Woodhull has obtained a decree of absolute divorce from her husband, Col. James A. Blood. Thb negotiations for converting the Old South Chnrch, Boston, into a historical museum are at last successful, the church corporation having accepted the offer of >400,600 for the purchase of their ancient edifice The condition of the sale is that the church shall be used for a museum, etc., and not for commercial purposes for thirty years. Thb Philadelphia Typographical Union has agreed to a reduction of ten per cent in their rates both in book and newspaper work, the new rates to go into effect Oct 2. Rbv. E. & Jambs, Senior Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died at his residence in New York city on the afternoon of the 18th. He was about seventy years old. Chablbs Davies, a well known mathematician and professor at West Point and Columbia College, died on the night of the 17th. Prof. £. & Snell, of Amherst College, died on the 18th. Jubtiob Dtkbmam has rendered a decision on the preliminary motion In the suit of Francis D. Moulton against Henry Ward Beecher, holding that the defendant must make in New York County his motion to change the place of trial. A Statb Convention of colored Republicans was held at Utica, N. Y., on the 19th, at which resolutions were adopted calling on the President to protect loyal men in the South in their political rights, and indorsing the National and State tickets.

A New Havbn (Conn.) special of the 18th tells the following: Samuel Lester, of Shelter Island, died, as was supposed, very suddenly, a few days ago, in Norwich, and the body was taken home for burial. The man employed to fill the grave heard strange noises coming from the coffin, as if Lester were trying to break out of it. He supcrstitously fled, but. returned soon and heard noises again. Finally he filled up the grave and said nothing about the matter until a day or two ago. The coffin has been exhumed and it was found that Lester was buried alive, evidences of a horrible struggle for release beingplainly apparent Axonxx Mollie Maguire—Thomas Duffy by name—has been convicted of murder in the first degree, he having been concerned in the assassination of Policeman Yost at Tamaqua, Pa. This makes the ninth con victionof members of that organization for murder, five being already under sentence of death in Schuylkill County, and three in Carbon County. At East Liberty, Pa., on the 30th, cattie brought: Beat, |[email protected]; medium, MAO @4.75; common, [email protected]. Hogs sold— Yorkers, fl6-26@6 50; Philadelphias, $6.60@ •JU. Sheep brought |[email protected], according to quality. 1M Chicago, on the 30th, Spring wheat, No. 2, closed at [email protected] cash. Cash corn closed at for No. 2. Cash oats No. z 2 •old at 34@84%c; October options were sold at3S?£c. Rye No. 3, «4@6<XcCash mesa pork dosed al 816.60 eifiJSK. Lard, [email protected] Good to choice beeves brought [email protected]; medium grades, [email protected]; butchers' stock, 82.50 @8.00; stock eaiffie, etc., |[email protected]. Hogs brought [email protected] for good to choice. Sheep sold at t8.50d4.20 for good to choice. _ wxrr aio» south. Thb Democrats of the Fourth Illinois District have nominated congressman Jshn F. Farmworth as their candidate for Congress, to succeed Gen. Hurlbut. Thb counsel for Ann Eliza Young having gypped to give the indemnity bond required by th* United Blates Marshal, Judge Schafer has ordered a release of the property of BrighsmJteM and a return of the executinn A Riawsdmr dispatch of the 15. h says a CW*pldßM®»en: of Indians at Standing

Rock showed only 450 lodgqb-a total of 4,000 Indians. Rations had pftvioualy been issued on a basis of 7,000. Indiana were known to have returned from the hostile., but to stealthily that they could not be caught, and an attempt to disarm hoatiles had therefore proved abortive. On the evening of the 14th two masked men boarded a train on the Utah Central Railroad a few miles north of Salt Lake City, gagged Wells & Fargo’s messenger, opened the safe, &ok 115,000, end mad e their escape. A bbcbnt Lo» Angelos (Cai.) telegram narrates a terrible tale of suffering on tbc Colorado desert. Henry Smith, from St Louis, with one companion and a pock team, left Yuma for Los Angelos, and wandered four days on the desert without water. Smith opened the veins of his arm and drank blood, which clotted in his throat He then cut his windpipe to remove it, and died a few hours after. Hie companion reached the station in the last stage of exhaustion. A Chbtbvnb dispatch of the 10th says the Wheeler brothers, who had been working their famous claim No. 2, below Gayville, on Deadwood Creek, arrived at Fort Laramie the night before, with a paid escort of twenty men. They brought, as the proceeds of their work for seven months, over |30u,000 pounds of dust Thb recent South Carolina Republican w. Convention re-nominated Gov. Chamberlain, the present Lieutenant-Governor, Comptroller-General, Treasurer and Secretary of State. K. B. Elliott, colored, was nominated for Attorney-General. In the Mountain Meadow Massacre trial at Beaver,Utah, on the 15th’, seven witnesses testified for the prosecution, all of them being new witnesses except Joel W. White. Their testimony fixed the murder on Lee. Samuel Knight testified that he was driving one of the wagons which contained arms for the train; he heard the first gun fired after the emigrants had been decoyed out Saw Lee blow a woman’s brains out, beat a man to death with a gun, and murder several others, and at the sam£ time saw the Indians make a rush on the women and children, whom they slew. Daniel McMurdy testified that he drove the other wagon; after the emigrants had been decoyed out by a flag of truce, and the whole column commenced moving up the Meadows, he heard the command to “ halt,” and looking around saw Lee put his gun to a woman’s head and fire; she fell; he heard him beating a man’s brains out with a gun; Lee then came to the witness’ wagon and shot all the wounded men with his pistol and dragged the bodies to the ground. Only the children in the wagons were saved. Other witnesses corroborated this evidence.

A courier who left Gen. Crook’s command on toe 10th. arrived at Cheyenne on toe 16th, with the intelligence that the General, who was en route for the Black Hills, and whose forces were suffering considerable hardship through wet weather and short rations, had, on toe 7th, sent a portion of the pack train ahead under toe escort of CoL Mills with 150 cavalry. On the evening of toe Bth the Colonel discovered a Sioux village of forty-one lodges, and having a band of several hundred ponies and American horses. About two o’clock on toe morning of the 9th an attack was made upon the village, the Indians being taken completely by surprise and driven from their lodges. A large quantity of supplies and 140 ponies were captured. Among toe spoils were portions of toe articles (! taken by toe Indians in toe Custer fight. Word was sent back to Crook of the discovery 1 and capture of the village, and he immediately came forward with reinforcementa, reaching Mills at eleven o’clock. The latter had kept up a good picket fight during toe forenoon, toe Indians having taken refuge among toe rocks and in toe gullies surrounding the village. During toe fighting the whites lost three killed—Private William Sell, of Company A, Third Cavalry; Private Kennedy, Company C, Fifth Cavalry, and Frank White, a citizen scout—and fourteen cithers were wounded. In the afternoon reinforcements were received by toe Indians from Crazy Horse’s band, and a running attack was made by them, but they were quickly driven off in eveiy direction. The village was thoroughly ransacked, and much ammunition and several guns were found in toe lodges. Among the Indians killed was the chief American Horse. Some of the In. dians were made prisoners, and they stated that most of the hostile Indians were going into the Agencies, with the exception of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, and their immediate followers. The captured village was destroyed. A telegram was received in Chicago on the 18th from Gen. Sheridan, dated Fort Laramie, Sept. 17, announcing toe reception fry him of ar dispatch to toe effect that •• Col. Carlin reports that ‘ Kill Eagle’ and * Little ’Wound,’ with 140 people, all their arms and ammunition, and about 100 ponies, surrendered to him at Standing Rock on toe 15th. Twenty-nine men surrendered, all of whom were in the fight on toe Little Big Horn.” It is said a large number of counterfeit coin half dollars have been manufactured in Baltimore and scattered throughout the country, and the public is cautioned to be on the lookout for them. They are dated. 1858,1875 and 1876, and are of light weight. In his account of the recent fight with the Indians by a portion of Crook’s command, the scout Gruard says thirty-five Indian lodges were burned, fourteen dead Indians were found on the field, and four bodies were known to hare been carried off; twenty-one Indians were captured, of whom eleven, including nine squaws, were subsequently r«leased. i .. A St. Paul (Minn.) telegram of toe 19th says the pursuit of the Northfield robbers had been given up and the pursuers had returned home. Two of toe robbers were followed into Dakota to a point between Sioux City and Yankton. It was not positively known in what direction toe other four escaped, though they were doubtless out of toe reach of the officers of Minnesota.

The trial at Beaver, Utah, of John D. Lee for complicity in the Mountain Meadows massacre ended on the 90th in a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. The jurf ware out a Utile lefts than four hours. Tra total number of yellow-fevertanter-ment» at Savannah, Ga., on the 20th, was thirty-six, nine more than .on any previous day. Gold closed in New Tort on the 20th it 110. The following were the dosing quotations for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat (New), l.W«|i.iß; No. 3 Milwaukee (New), *l.l»®ijo ; Oats, Western and State, M@4Tc., Corn, Western Mixed, 55@60c; Pork, Meas, fl&SO; Lard, Flour good to choice, White Wheat Extra, »5A5®7.< Cattle, forgOofi to extra. Bhecp,4©fe