Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1877 — CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The Roumanians have taken military pnrevion of Kalafok The oocupving foroe number* 9,000 men, with twenty-four Krupp gnus, and it k proposed to hold the poet against any attempt at ito capture by the Turku. The latter hare bombarded Ibaut, and thk the Roumanian Ohambcts declare ia mra« btld, London dispatches of the 4th say the British Army and Nary wece being placed on a war footing with a new to poauble erentualitiax in the East. He Porte has notified the representatires of the Powers that it declares a blockade of the whole of the Randan coast of the Black Sea. Official information was received at Washington, on the 4th, from our Minister to Mexico, of the release of the American Consul at Acapulco, and Secretary Exacts has instructed the Minister to enter a formal protest, and demand from the Mexican Government a* apology and full reparation for the outrage. The Daily Bulletin, of New York, stated, on the 4th, apparently by authority, that the Attorney-General had come to thecomdonon that the public interest would be best served by Tweed's release, and tins would occur, without doubt, in a short time. Dispatches of the 6th indicated the pas. aage of the Danube tty the Banana in the xicin- ' jjjrid, Silestria -and Bwstrihnk. In Asia the Bus. ff*a« forces were advancing in a semi-circle toward Erxeroom. A heavy battle was momontarOy expected in the vicinity of Earn. The ftiniisrr —tt strongly intrenching themselves luitTimin Ah Alexandria telegram of the 6th says the Russian Qanauhfitenanl and staff had toft Hot*' .

The body of John T. Daly, proprietor of the Windsor Hotel, in New York City, was found suspended in an old house in the village of Woodsids, L. L, on the morning of the 6th. He had been missing sines tbs Ist. 3c is believed to bars been insane over his financial rmBy the bursting of a boiler on the steamship Sidouian, of the Anchor Lino, on a late trip, the Captain, throe engineers, two firemen and a trimmer were killed, and the cook wounded. The accident occurred on the 29tb nit. * Crazy Horae aurrendered to the United States forces at Ounp Robinson, Neb., on the 6th. Over 1,700 ponies and several hundred rifies were recovered. The President, on the sth, issued the following proclamation convening Congress on the 10th of October next: Wbbhus, the final adjournment of the Fortyfourth Congress without making the usual appropriations for the support of the army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1878, presents an extraordinary occasion, requiring the President to exercise the power vested in turn by the Constitution, to convene the Houses of Congress in anticipation of the day fixed by law for their next meeting, now, therefore, I, Rutherford 11. Hayes, President of the United States, do, by virtue of the power to this end in me vested by the Constitution, convene both Houses of Congran to assemble at their respective chambers, at twelve o’clock, noon, on Monday, the 16th day of October next, then and there to consider and determine such measures as in their wisdom their duty and the welfare of the people may seem to demand. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the aeal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this sth day of May, in the year of one Lord 1877, and the indepenoe of the United States of America the one hundred and first. B. B. Hayes. By tie President. Wm. M. JKvabth, Secretary of State A Salt Lake dispatch of the sth says that the feeling aroused throughout the United States hy the testimony At John D. Lee’s trial, relative to the Mountain Meadow massacre, had led Hie Latter-Day Saints to apprehend the arrest of Brigham Young and other heads of the church, accused of sanctioning the commission of that horrible crime. The Sainta had determined to resist any movement against Brigham Young by the Federal authority, and to that end they were secretly arming and drilling.

An extraordinary debate occurred in the British Parliament on the 7th. Gladstone arraigned the Government for the pusillanimity of its diplomacy, and declared that British interests must, for once, give way to the demands of humanity. The Home Secretary replied with great energy, defining the attitude and programme of the Cabinet in the Eastern affairs. The debate was continued until the following day. The recent letter of Lord Derby to Russia was considered, a London telegram of the 7th says, throughout the continent as an essentially warlike document. A Constantinople telegram of the 7th says Turkey was endeavoring to secure British intervention in return for the cesaioa of a harbor in Crete for a naval station commanding the Sues Canal. A Vienna telegram of the 7th says the Sultan had resolved to proclaim a holy war. The Russians had oommenoed the bombardment of Widin from K&lafat. The roof of the Cathedral at Metz was burned, on the morning of the 7th It caught from fire-works exhibited in honor of the Emperor’s visit. • At noon, on the Bth, all really vital points in all classes of sewing-machines became common property in consequence of the expiration of the patents thereon. The expiration is expected to work very important changes in the trade and largely-reduoe the price of machines. The Secretary oi the Treasury, on the 7th, issued another call for the redemption of ♦10,114,550 of 5-30 bonds of 1865, May and November interest and principal to be paid on the Bth of August. On the 7th, the President discontinued forty Pension Agencies in various parts of the country, leaving only eighteen agencie* todo the work formerly done by fifty-eight It is estimated that this will save the Government #50,000 per annum. In the British House of Commons the Gladstone resolutions wore further debated on the Bth and the vote postponed until the 10th. The British Government annonnoed on the Bth that it was ready to embark 85,000 troops and 11,000 hones atany moment Vienna advices of the Bth report that the Russians were repulsed a* the late storming of Kan, the two efforts to cany the citadel having been fruitless. On the contrary Parisian advices of the same day report that the garrison was about to surrender. The Cabinet, at Washington, on the Bth, resolved Hurt organised cattle-stealing, and other depredations upo* property of American citisens in Texas, most be effectually stopped without further delay or inattention on the part of Mexican authorities. ?

The London Globe of the 9th publishes a Pent dispatch in which it is stated that the Russians had gained an important victory between Kars and Eiaeroum and that the Turks had retreated upon the latter place. It was rumored that the latter bad lost 14,000 men. A Constantinople telegram of the 9th says the Sultan had resolved to proclaim a holy war. A Bucharest special of the 9th says Roumania bad decided to proclaim her independence and issue a declaration of war. A St. Petersburg dispatch of the 9th says a fanatical rising had taken place in the Tchetchenai country. One band of 500 insurgents were dispersed by the Russian troops, with a loss of ninety-nine killed and 350 wounded. The Russian loss wan small. An explosion of gas occurred on the morning of the 9th, in the Wadesville Mines, near 8k Clair, Pa. Thirty men were imprisoned, and the bodies of six had been recovered up to the morning of the 10th. Eight were rescued alive, badly injured, but will recover. A Washington special of the 9th says it has been decided to reduce the army by discharging 3,500 enlisted men, and that the President had directed the Secretary of War to issue the necessary order. At Boston, on the 9th, Alfred Rand, a medical student and a graduate of Harvard, committed suicide. He loaded a small cannon, and, having applied a slow match to it, lay down on the floor, with his head at toe mouth of the weapon. When it exploded his head was blown off. Lieut. Logan, of the United States Navy, was named to a daughter of Admiral Porter, at Washington, on the 9th. Thk State of Georgia has sold the labor of the convicts in the State Prison for $25,000 a yeas, which is at the rate of about eleven dollars a year for each convict The State appears to have been badly swindled, as the contractors are now successfully “subletting" thd convicts at rixty dollars a year apiece. \ <