Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1877 — CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Got. Hartranft, Commander-in-Chief of the BeimbUe, has iaared a general order deZ ignatingMaySO as Memorial Day. Whatever therefre ns parts «f the Good Amy* the good work, he, in behalf of the surviving oomtadaa of the gallant dead, aab the citisena to take Maps to decorate the graves and secure the proper obeemnoe of the day. The South Carolina Legislature met in special session on the Mb. I* his me—ge to thelußfalahwr, Gov. Hampton erwnaaaed the hope that the membera would forget the wtimority engendered by polittanl strife, and ties superior to “petty oonaidcmtiona of partisanship.- He recommended an earnest eSori to nwfrfirr *lm> VmA vwvWnMrwtw ftfafu ** - unuae toe mm « w mate, revive will and justice fluuong &11 olmsm and pnitjea/

The Porto haa declined to recognize the arrangement by which Rumisn subjects in Turkey were placed under German ptuteJtou. Germany has pretinted. An extensive fire occurred in Constantinople on the 20th. Over 600 bototo were The Roumanian Minister at Foreign Affairs announced to the Roumanian diambsr •t Deputies, on the 29th, the signing of a ooavvntion with Russia, by virtue of which free passage across the country was promised, and also the treatment due to a friendly army. The Csar had bound himself to respect the rights of Rowmania. A similar convention had not been concluded with the Bsrte, beoanse it had perries* untly refused to recognise Boumania or settle ling piadfag I'Wl" ""’ 1 A Vienna telegram of the 20th says Persia had 20,000 men ready to join the Russians. A St. Petersburg telegram of the 29th sayu Russia had 60,000 men on the Danube and 125,000 in the Omwmub. The opposing forces of the Turks aggregated 150,000. Information received at Omaha, on the 29th, indicated that the heavy snow and rain storm of the preceding three days had decteoyed the grasshopper*. Experiments in thawing them out showed no signa es vitality.

Several of the memljers of the St. Louis Whisky Ring, sentenced to pay a fine and to. nominal imprisonment a year ago, but who had never paid the fine, were arrested in that city, on the 28th ult. One paid his fine and was released, but the others gave bail in the sum of 61,500 each. These arrests were riade in pursuance of the recent decision of the Secretary of the Treasury to take measures to collect all unpaid whisky fines. A report prevailed in Vienna, on tne 39th ult, that the Turkish gunboats bad left the Lower Danube, being impelled to this action by the torpedoes and the fear of the Russian heavy artillery. A Vienna dispatch of the 30th ult. says the Porto had given official assurance that it did not intend to cany on the war on Servian territory. It was reported from Columbia, 8. C., on the 30th nit., that the Republican claimants for State offices would consent to the proceedings before the Supreme Court, which would end the contest and seat all the Democratic State officiate. Employes, to the number of 250 (mostly females), of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, in Washington, were disharged on the 00th nit. Battles were fought before Kars on the 29th and 30th ult, in which the Turks are reported to have been worsted. A Berlin special of the Ist says that Russia, at the instance of Austria, had promised to respect the neutrality of Servia.

According to an Associated Press dispatch from Jackson, Miss., on the evening of the 26th ulti, John W. Gully, a prominent citisen of Kemporia, waa assassinated by an unknown party. The murder created great excitement, and every meana waa resorted fd to dis*-* cover the perpetrator. On the 28th, two colored men made affidavit that Benj. Rush, a white man, did the deed.aud that Judge Chisholm, who ran for Congress on the Republican ticket at the last election, hia son, and Gilmer, Rosenbaum and Hopper, prominent white Republicans, knew of and instigated the crime. Chisholm and son were arrested and imprisoned at DeKalb, Mrs. Chiaholm and daughter insisted on sharing their confinement. On the 29th, Chisholm sent for Gilmer, for whom a warrant had been issued. Gilmer came, and on arrival was arrested; but, just as he arrived at the jail, waa set upon;by a mob and killed. The jailor waa then overpowered by the mob, who immediately attacked. Chisholm, mortally wounding him, and killing his son. Miss Chisholm, in defending her father, shot and killed Dr. Rosser, and Mrs. Chisholm severely wounded young Gully, a son of Gully who waa aaaaaainated. Mias Chisholm waa also seriously wounded. Rosenbaum and Hopper were carried to the woods, by the mob, to extort from them the whereabouts of Rush, the alleged sms sain of Gully. It is supposed that Rosenbaum and Hopper were hanged. A horrible state of affairs ia reported to exist throughout that section.

On the afternoon of the Ist, a section ot the roof on the northeast corner of the Naw York Postoffioe building fell in, while workmen were removing the supports which had been placed under it during some repairs. Of the ten persona employed two were killed and one fatally, and others slightly, injured. The public debt statement published on the Ist shows: Total debt, $2,224,658,598; cash in Treasury, 6154,299,806; debt, leas cash in Treasury, $2,070,358,617; decrease during April, $4315,510.

A dispatch from Russian sources, on the 2d, announces that the Turkish garrison, numbering 1,700, had abandoned Bayazid and withdrawn to Atiaday Heights, leaving a large quantity of ammunition, which fell into the hands es the Russians. The Russian farces from Alexandropol had occupied Ziama and Eatkera. The Turkish posts on the Asiatic frontier had mostly surrendered without a blow. The Turkish Commander on the Danube had been empowered by the Porte to close the river to all navigation, or adopt any measure rendered necessary by military exigencies. The Turks were burning the villages opposite Galatz and persecuting the Christians, on the 2d. A diplomatic rapture between Turkey and Rounumia is imminent. In his testimony before an investigating committee at Albany, N. Y., a few days ago. State Senator Woodin most emphatically denied the charges relative to himself made in the alleged confession of Wm. M. Tweed. He asserts that in no possible shape had anything of any value ever peered through hia hands or been received by him, in consideration of any vote or act done by him in the Legislature or out of it far the benefit of William M. Tweed or anybody associated with him; he never received any money from Tweed, Winslows or Hastings. John P. Phair has been reprieved by the Governor of Vermont until April, 1879.