Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1877 — GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL.

An information was filed in the Superior Criminal Court, at New Orleans, on the sth, against Messrs. Wells, Anderson, Kenner and Casanave, charging them with fraudulent conduct in connection with their duty as a Returning Board for Louisiana in the fall of 1876. They were held to bail in the sum of $5,000 each. Gen. Grant reached Brussels, Belgium, on the evening of the 6th. No public or official reception was given him. The President’s order prohibiting Federal officers from participation in the management of political commit'eesand conventions was informally discussed iu tie Cabinet meeting in Washington on the 6th. Without any formal action being taken on the subject, it was agreed that the letter of the Postmaster-General was a correct and judicious statement of the meaning of the order in regard to cases like the one presented fiom Wisconsin, and that, while the order should be firmly maintained aud impartially enforced, there was no occasion to apply it to lowa officeholders who were elected as members of the Convention before it wa& issued, and who p'obanly took their seats before it reached them by mail. San Francisco dispatches of the Bth report that a fight occurred at Cedar Creek, Idaho, on the 2d, between Gl. Whipple's command and forty Indians under Looking Gtass. The latter declined to surrender, and seventeen were killed. The remainder escaped. Gen- Howard moved this camp to Tableland on the 2d. Here sixteen caches weie discovered and a large quantity of provisions and clothing obtained. A great number of Indian horses and some excellent beef were captured. Up to the Bth, the subscription to the 4 per cent, loan received in the United States aggregated $13,223,250.

The Grover Investigating Committee at Portland, Ore., on the 6th and 7th, examined several wlmenses,who gave evidence tending .to show that some mem tiers of the Legislature had been induced by bribery to vote for Grover for Senator. No evidence had yet been heard on behalf of the defense. A Washington special of the Bth declares that President Hayes says he never favored the annexation of Mexico, and did not Csenr It wnwr. A London dispatch of the 9th says there waa much uneasiness In England in regard to the Mohammedan population in India, tbe famine having had tbe effect to render them unsettled. This, in connection with the demands of the Sultan, their spiritual head, it waa feared, would lead to wide-spread outbreaks in favor of Turkey which would assume dimensions dangerous to English interests. A Teheran (Persia) dispatch of the 9th reports the appearance of the plague at Rcsht. There were thirty deaths daily. At Del Norte, the principal town in the Bun Juan mining regions, a fire occurred, on the night of the 6th, which burned over two emire blocks and destroyed property valued at $200,000. A terrible whirlwind struck the Tdwn of Pensaukce, Wis., on the evening of the 7th, destroying nearly every structure In the village, and killing from six to ten persons and wounding twenty. Among the buildings prostrated was the Gardner House, one of the largest hotels in Northern Wisconsin. The width of the tornado did not exceed 1,000 feet, and it was all over in two minutes. The place is a totul wreck. One account of the terrible effects of the storm is as follows: “ The damage wus frightful, and tbe effects of the wind marvelous. It struck-the river and drained the stream, taking the water up iu oue spot, to a height of fifty feet; overturned barges, blew the upper works off the decks of steamers, demolished entirely about fifteen buildings, and duin»ge<l as many more. The storm blew in the north and west wall of the Gardner House, smashed all the furniture and fixtures, and filled the rooms with a confused mas 3of rubbish. A lady and gentleman seated in the office were carried a distance of 150 feet. A large building, with two wings, was pieked up bodily, moved several rods, and set down In the road. A mother and child were carried fifty feet in the air, the clothing stripped from the back of the woman and the infant diverted of everything. A wagon was blown over a three-story hotel. The Iron portion of a sewing machine was thrown through a cow. The station house was lifted on the railroad track aud the railroad bridge moved eight inches, and many Instances of a like character. The loss is variously estimated, but cannot fall short of $150,000.” Information was received at Walla Walla, Ore., on the 9th, that Col. Perry, who was on the way to Gen. Howard with a packtrain and an escort of thirty men, was attacked by Indians on the 4th, and that ten soldiers and two citizens were killed. C'apt Whipple went to his rescue, and the Indians were repulsed, but were iu force around Col. Perry and Capt. Whipple, who had only force enough to act on the defensive. Au official account was received in Washington, on the 9th, of the crossing into Mexican territory, over the Rio Grande, of United States troops, and the capture of stolen horses and the punishment of depredatory Indians, who were driven into the mountains. President Hayes, and others in high official station, are said to have expressed much gratification at the intelligence. The French radical newspaper, Le Peuj>le, was seized, on the 10tli, for accusing the Government with meditating a coup 'Vital. Tbe monument toP. P. Bliss was dedicated, at Rome, Pa., on the 10th, in the presence of n large number of people. Messrs Moody and Sankey participated in the eereinolies. Dr. Pierson, of Detroit, delivered the dedicatory address. A witness named Straight testified before the Grover Investigating Committee, at Portland, Ore., on the loth, to the effect that, from the circumstances of the ease, lie did not believe that any of those who, like himself, changed from Nesmith to Grover for United States Senator, received a cent for so doing. The Constitutional Convention of Georgia assembled, on the 11th, at Atlanta, and chose i has. J. Jenkins President, The President’sr.id, in his address, that it was unnecessary to caution the Convention against doing anything to infringe upon the rights of the colored race. Ok Lite 11th, at the Brookfield coalmine, near Wheatland, Pa., a locomotive burning anthracite coal for the first time, entered the tunnel to the mine, and, after being iu a short time, the men became suddenly affected by the gas aud fell to the ground senseless. The engineer gave the alarm, and a large number of meu rushed in to rescue them. As theypassed in they were overcome by the gas, and also fell insensible. Finally, a gang was organized which, by the exercise of extraordinary precautions, was enabled to bring out thirty-six men, of whom six were either dead before the outside was reached, or died immediately after. The Western session of the National Christian Temperance Camp-Meeting Association began at Lake Bluff, near Chicago, on the 11th, under the leadership of Dr. Reynolds, the “ Red Ribbon” reformer. The intended resignation of Disraeli, the British Premier, was announced iu a London telegram of the 11th. The steamer Fletcher arrived at Bismarck, on the 11th, from Little Big Horn, briuging the remains of Gen. Custer and other officers massacred with him by the Indians, J une 25, 1876. It was stated that they would be fieposited at Fort Lincoln for the present.