Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1877 — CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Private advices received in Vienna on the 23d, deacribeaffaiiw in Conctantinoplea* extremely critical. The {Remaa had thraatenedto clove all tee moaques. The Pope has lost the uaeof his legs, and tee to be carried about in a chair. Hie general health wm fair, on the 23d. He had canned a circular to be waned to the Bishops, counseling the expected period of inmwend prrwition At the meeting of the Cabinet in Washington, on the 2*d, the pnqxMitton to withdraw the troopn from Lontoiana and South Caroline was defeated by a vote of Bto 4. It was decided at the Cabinet meeting, on the 23d. to invite Messm. Chamberlain and Hampton to come to Washington and confer with the President, and later in the day such an invitation waa written and John D. Lee, the hero of the Mountain Meadows massacre in LK7, waa executed on the horrible crimewaa what be Claimed to be a full and true history of the butchery. Just before he was shot, Lee declared that he had done nothing wrong, design

edly, in the affair; that be did all in his power to save the emigrants, and that his conscience was dear before God and man. His death was iMtantaaeous, five guns being tired, and the bullate lodging in the legion of the heart. The thirty-fourth University boat race was rawed on the Thames on the 24th, and resulted in a dead beat. A Pera correspondent, on the 25th, telegraphed that the Montenegrin delegates had intimated their intention of quitting Constantinople, the Porte refusing to yield to their demaud*. On the 25th, It was reported at Washington that Senator Gordon, before the completion of the count by the Electoral Commission, went, with John Y. Brown, of Kentucky, to Messrs. Foster and Matthews, of Ohio, and demanded a written pledge that the Hampton and Nicholls Governments should be recognised, whatever the result of the count might be. It was alleged and also denied that such pledge was given. Gen. Grant and wife arrived at Cincinnati, on the 25th, from Washington. His Holiness, the Pope, is ill again. He is constantly subject to fainting fits, and, on the 26th, it was thought that he would not recover, although his immediate demise was not expected. According to a Washington Associated Press dispatch of the 26th, the President had stated that he had given no assurance of immediate action in respect to the withdrawal ot troops from Louisiana and South Carolina. A military riot occurred in Mayence on the birthday of the Emperor William. There was a fight between PniMiian and Hessian soldiers, iu which several were killed and fortywounded. A Captain and Lieutenant were among the killed. Tite dam of a reservoir at Stafford, Conn., gave way on the morning of the 27 th, destroying about twenty buildings and tearing up the railway track between that village and TollandyTwo lives were lost. Loss from f 1,000,000 to 92,000,000.

On the evening of the 27th, J. C. Swayaie, editor of the Topeka (Kan.) Blade was .killed in a street fight with James W. Wilson, ’formerly of the Daily Times of that city. The difficulty arose out of articles published in the Blade, which were offensive to Wilson. Proclamations were issued, on the 26th, by the rival claimants to the Governorship of Louisiana, each claiming to be at the head of a fully organized State Government. Nicholls called on the people to pay their taxes, and Packard announced that the State Treasurer refused to recognize Nicholls. The telegraph operators throughout Turkey have struck, and few lines and offices were open on the 28th. In secret session, the Turkish Chamber of Deputies discussed an address to the Sultan, all the s]>eakers declaiming vigorously against foreign intervention with the domestic affairs of the country. A special from Tucson, Arizona, gives the following as the correct copy of the original order directing the Mountain Meadows massacre: BPBCIAL ORDER. Salt luke City, April 19,1858. The officer in command of the escort is hereby ordered to see that every man is well prepared with ammunition and to have it ready at the time you see these teamsters 100 miles from the settlement. President Young advises that they should all be killed to prevent them returning to Bridger to join our enemies. Every precaution should be taken, and see that not one escapes. Secrecy is required. By order of Gen. Daniel S. Wells. Jambs Ferguson, Assistant Adjutant General. The following gentlemen are announced as the Commission to visit Louisiana, and have signified their acceptance: Judge C. B. Lawrence, of Illinois; ex-Gov. J. C. Brown, of Tennessee; Gen. Joseph R. Hawley, of Connecticut; Gen. John M. Harlan, of Kentucky, and Wayne McVeigh, of Pennsylvania. The United States Treasury Department has issued a circular recommending vigilance on the part of customs officers in the matter of the importation of homes, cattle, sheep and swine, so as to provide against the introduction of the rinderpest, which is pronounced infectious as well as contagious. The Treasury Department announces its belief that the entire 4X per cent, loan will be placed before the meeting of Congress in December. Already 9130,000,000 have been taken.