Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1877 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

VMM WASHINGTON. Tst Comptroller of the Currency b*« ttM upon the National Banks for Infornation as to the amounts of all the taxes paid by them to State, county, city, town or other municipal authorities for last year; and alao as to the amount of personal taxes assessed upon the stock of the banks. A Washington dispatch of the 18th s»ys the •< negate of silver coin issued to that date was 834 236,0(0; fractional currency redoemed, 821,980,000, leaving 819,622,0u0 currency still outstanding. It was announced in the Cabinet meeting in Washington, on the 14th, that the Governor of Texas would demand of the Mexican authorities the culprits who crossed over from the Mexican side and committed the outrages at Rio Grande Qty, on ihe 12th. rhe Cabinet approved of snch action by the Governor. Tn Commission appointed by the Government, to treat with Canada for the return of Sitting Bull a d his band of Indians, is composed of Gen. Terry and Mr. John McNeil, aBU L<>uls merchant Capt Corbin will act as Clerk of the Commission.

THE BAST. A meeting of workingmtn was held in Philadelphia on the 11th, at which a resolution was adopted recommending the organisation of the workingmen for political purposes, to be called the Protective party, and having for its objects: First, the mutual protection of labor; second, the direct representation of the working classes in municipal and State Legislatures and Congress; third, the repeal of all oppressive laws against labor; fourth, the enactment of just laws for the protection of labor. A committee was appointed to draft plans for such organisation. Ths Greenback party of New Jersey, on the 14th, nominated Gen. Thus. D. Hoxey for Governor, and passed resolutions demanding the immediate repeal of the Resumption act, attributing to it the contraction of the currency and the general distress of the country, and warning workingmen that it 1» part of a conspiracy of the money power to pauperize and then disfranchise labor; denouncing the demonetization of silver, and demanding 'he repeal of the law effecting such demonetization. Ths Democratic State Convention of Maine was held at Portland, on the 14th, and Joseph H. Williams, of Augusta, was nominated for Governor. Eesolu io..s were adopted—reaffirming the platform and principles of the St. Louis Convention; charac: terizing as a monstrous fraud the reversal of the election of Samuel J. Til'en for President, ■ and asking sn amendment to the Constitution which will makes like result In the future impossible; declaring that the restoration to the common rights of citizenship of the people ofthr e Southern States, long kept subject to mlllta»y occupaU-n, is a Just acknowledgment of the wisdom of Democratic principles, and that the Democratic party opposes only what is wrong in the administration of the Government .The State Convention of the Independent Greenback psity of Pennsylvania has been called to meet at Williamsport on the 19th of September. Two children of F. M. Lavalley, of Flushing, N. Y., were burned to death on the 14th, by the explosion of a can of kerosene oil. The new Central Coal Company of Cumberland, Md., one of the heaviest shippers, resumed work on the 15lh,at fifh-fivec nts, the rates demanded by the strikers. Ano her company would soon do Ilk* wise at the same rate. A Wilkesbarre (Pa.) special of the 15th reports that the strikers in that section were engaged in forcibly stopping the numping in several of the mines. A strike had been resolved on by the miners in the Hazleton (Pa.) region.

The New Yoik Prohibitionist* have nominal* d a State ticket and resolved that it is the duty of all to extirpate the crime of Belling intoxicating drinks. The New York State Central Committee has issued a call for a State Independent Convention to be held on the 25th of September. The call demand* the immediate consideration of the platform adopted at Indianapolis in May, 1876; denounces the Resump, tion act and asks it* repeal; stigmatizes the issue of the 4% per cent, bonds as a barefaced robbery of lhe people to the extent of *lB,000,000. It also calls for laws to sustain labor and control railroad and other monopolies. The Centennial celebration at Bennington, VL, on the 15to and 16th, in commemoration of the Revolu ion ary Battle of Bennington, was largely attend'd, many distinguished! personages being present, among whom were President,Hayes end member* of his Cabinet, Poems by Wm. C. Bryant and Mrs. Julia C. R.Door were read on the 16th. and slort speeches were made by President Hayes, Sec’y Evarts and others. The procession of the day, numbering 8,000 people, passed in review before President Hayes, Mrs Hayes and the Cabinet, the President, in his remarks, congratulating Vermont upon her grand and successful Centennial celebration, and referring to the evident interest taken in her 100th anniversary of two prom-

inent events in her history by the visiting officials of sister States, the military and the thousand* present. Sec’y McCrary introduced Mrs. Hayes a* President Haye*’ Molly Stark. Great enthusiasm was kindled by these expressions. The crowd in attendance npen the celebration is estimated at 50,000 in number. The operatives in several Pennsylvania collieri* * struck, on the 16th, while the employes in three of lhe largest collieries in Maryland had n solved to resume work, having secured the rate of pay demanded by them. Gold closed in New York, on Aug 17'h, J at 105%. The following were the closing quotations for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, October —No. 2, Milwau kee, September t Oats, Western and Siate, 25@48c. Corn, Western Mixed, 56 @s9c. Pork, Mess, <[email protected]. Lard, 88.95. Flour, good to choke, *[email protected]; WMter Wheat,B6.os@6Ao. Cattle, 8%@12%c for good to extra. Sheep, 84.0006.00. Hogs, *5.75®587.

At E»st Liberty, Pa., on Aug. 17th, Cattle brought: Beat, 85 [email protected]; Medium, HAO @5.25, Common, [email protected]. Hog is sold —Yorkers, *s.B<>@s.«); Phil-dslphiae, 85.25 At Baltimore, Mi, on Aug. 17th, Cattle brought: Best, M08@«AO; Medium, 88.75 @A2S. Hogs Bold at [email protected] for Good. Sheep rere quoted at [email protected] for Good. Axusa-MXUTUIO of workingmen, held in Cincinnati, on the 11th, nomine ed the following State ticket: For Governor, L. H. Bond, of Clncinnstl; Lieutenant-Governor, Freak Skadd, of Cleveland; State Treasurer, L. A. Blue; Clerk of Supreme Court, Fredfftak Aospeiger; Board of Public Works

Peter McGoery; School Commissioner, Peter H. Clark. The platform adopted pledges the party In Ohio to labor uncess Inglyfor toe recognition of equal righto and duties, and the abolition of all class rule; d. msndatoc payment of wages weekly, with suitable penalties for failure to do so on the part of employers; eight hours for a day's work; employers to be liable for all accldcnta to employes; the employment of children under fourteen years of age to be prohibited In Industrial establishments; all conspiracy 'aw. to be abolished; the use of convict labor by private employer* to be prohibited; gratuitous Instruction in all educational institutions; patent and all other law* or privilege* to individuals or companir* to the detriment of labor to be repealed; the tariff and other acts for indirect taxation to be repeal'd, and direct taxation on property and income* to be substituted therefor; railroad*, teleg-apha and all mean* of transportation to be under Government control, for the purpose of abolishing the wages rys. tem, and all Industrial enterprises to be 1 placed under the control of Government as fast a* practicable, and operated by free cooperative unlous for the good of the whole people. A courier arrived at Deer Lodge, on the 11th, from Big Hole, Montana, bringing account* of a desperate fight between Gen. Gibbon's command and the Nez Perces, on the Big Hole River, on the 9th, in which the former lost twenty-five killed, among whom a*e Capt. Logan and Lieut*. Bradley and Bostwick. The wounded numbered fortyfive, including Gen. Gibbon, Capt. Williams and Lieut*. Coolidge, Woodruff and English, the latter seriously. The Indians suffered severely, forty of their dead being counted on about one-half the battlefield. Gen. Terry, at St. Paul, received a dispatch from Gen. Gibbon, dated the 11th, stating that be surprised the Nez Perces camp and got possession of it after a bard fight, in which both sides lost heavily. Other dispatches say that Gib' on’s command numbered 182 men, Including seventeen officers and thirty-two citizens, and the Ii dians over 1,000, and describe the battle as having been one of the fiercest on record, the Indian* losing heavily. While on his return from Oregon, Senator Morton was taken quite seriously ill. He passed through Indianapolis, on the 13th, on hi* way to bis home in Richmond, accompanied by bis family and physician, the latter having been summoned to meet him at Peoria, 111. The Senator’s left arm was paralyzed, but the physician thought only temporarily. For the present he would be permi ted to ste no one except his family. Fifteen men from Mexico entered the Town of Rio Grande, Tex., on the morning of the 13th, broke open the jail, shot Judge Cox and the Jailer, and released two notorious outlaws. The civil authorities called upon the military for assistance, and the Mexicans were pursued but not overtaken, they recroesing the river into Mexico seven-ty-seven miles below Rio Grande. The returns received up to the 18th from the recent election in West Virginia iudicaed that Charleston had been chosen as the permanent scat of the State Government By the terms of the law submitting the question to the people, the capital wHI remain at Wheeling until May, 1885. A dispatch, dated the 11th, was received from Gen. Howard, on the 13th, stating that he had reached Gen. Gibbon's command on the Big Hole, and found- 'lie s-ldiers in the best of spirit*. Gen. Gibbon’s wound was not serious. The Indians suffered great looses in the fight of the 9th. Gcu. Howard would continue the pursuit of the Indians who had all left) as soon as his command came up. The Chicago Tribune of the 14th says Gen. Sheridan regarded the result of Gen. Gibbon’s battle as one of the most important victories of the war. Col. John A. Joyce, who was sentenced to the Penitentiary at Jefferson Cl'y, Mo., for complicity in the whis-ky conspiracy, w.s, on the 13th, released from confinement. The case came up on writ of habeas corpus, Joyce’s plea being the illegality of his cumulative sentence. The Court held that he had served the lime he owed the Government, and that be was entitled-to his dis charge, but required him to furnish bonds in the sum of 41,000 to answer any order which the higher Court, to which the case has been appealed, might make. President Hayes’ old regiment, the Twenty-third Ohio, will hold its annual reunion at Fremont, on the 14th of September. The President, Gens. Sherman, Sheridan and other distinguished persons will be in attendance. Raleigh T. Daniel, the Attorney-Gen-eral of Virginia, and Democratic candidate for re-* lection, died at Richmond, on the 16th, after two days’ illness, of hemorrhage of the bowels. He was seventy-two years old. Gen. Gibbon, accompanied by Lieut. Jacobs, arrived at Deer Lodge, Mont., on the 15th, where he met with an enthusiastic reception by the citizens. He was feeling well, but was a little stiff from his wound. A Virginia City (Mont.) dispatch of the 16th says all the Chinamen on Horse Prairie had been massacred by the Nez Perces Indians. The Bannock tri eof Indians are reported friendly and willing to fight against the hostilcs, the Nez Perces being their natural enemies. A Fort Clark (Tex.) special of the 16th says that on the 14th Mexican cattle-thieves drove 150 head of cattle across the Rio Grande. The National Educational Association, at its recent session in Louisville, Ky., appointed a committee to memorialize Congress on behalf of a National Educational Bureau and Museum. W. B. Hibby, indicted for subornation of perjury in the recent Grover investigation at Portland, Ore., has been held to appear for trial in the sum of 42,500, and, in default thereof, was in jail on the 16th. The annual reunion of the Army of the Tennessee occurs at St Paul on the sth and 6th of September next. Extraordinary preparations are making for the entertainment of the visitors. President Hayes and his Cabinet have been invited and are expected to be present On the night of the 16th, the steamer City of Madison, en route from Chicago to Lud ington, Mich., took fire off Racine, and burned tor the water’s edge. The crew escaped in a yawl-boat Prof. Watson, of the Michigan University Observatory at Ann Arbor, reports the discovery by him, on the night of the Bth, of a hitherto unknown planet It was in the constellation of Capricorn. An accurate observation of the stranger was not obtained until the night of the 16th, when it was discovered to be moving west and north, and was shining like a star of the tenth magnitude.

In Chicago, on Aug. 17th, Spring Wheat No. 2, closed at [email protected] cash. Cash corn sold at 23c; and 22%c seller September. Rye No. 2,53 c. Barley No. 2 (New), September delivery, Cash Mess Pork closed at 812.50 Lard, 88.42 - Beeves—Extra brought 85.0506.00; Chpice, [email protected]'; Good, [email protected]; Medium Grades, 83.50® 4.004 BmitchOTß*, Stock - tattle, etc., 82.75@8A0. Hogs brought [email protected] for Good to Choice. Sheep sold at [email protected] for Poor to Choice. FOHKIfiN INTBLUCKNCA. CotrsTAxrnroPLi dispatches of the 12th say a civil war of extanninatfon had been be-

gun in the Province of Eske-Ssghra. All male Christian native* had been ordered' to be put to death, aince every Bulgarian waa looked upon a* a apy or an open enemy. The Turkish troops In the Caucasus have been withdrawn and ordered to Adrianople and Varna. The Russians have evacuated the Kaln-Boghaz Paas of the Balkans. Thi cholera has made its appearance. In the Russian camps on the Danube and in the Dobrudscha. Intelligence was received at New York, on the llth, of the loss of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company’s steamer Eten, ou Valparaiso, on the 25th of July. Of the crew slxt'-three were saved, but nearly 100 of the passengers were drowned. Among the lost was the commander of the vessel. Recent report* of the famine in India represent that the stricken area contains 18,000,000 sufferers, dependent for food upon the activity and exertion* of those who transport grain to thecountry; that the Madras Presidency was powerless to satisfy their want*, and that all aid that could be secured was necessary to the salvation of life. Over 500,000 people bad perished, and more had been found dead on a single morning than died during the Whole Bengal famine. Passenger trains bad been partly discontinued on the roads to enable relief trains to get through, and a frantic appeal for assistance has been sent to the principal cities of England, Scotland, Ireland and India. The Queen prorogued the British Parlia ment, on the 14th, until Oct 30. The German Government has addressed remonstrances to the Port against the atrocities committed in Bulgaria, and Intimated the absolute necessity of better discipline. Constantinople telegrams of the 14th say that every Russian had been driven from that portion of Tuikey south of lhe Balkans. Intelligence was received In London, on the 14th, of the recent discovery of a conspiracy against the Ameer of Cabool. Four officials had already been executed. According to St. Petersburg dispatches of the 15th, Russia had declared that she would not be bound by the pledges made when war was first declared, but would dictate peace on her own terms when the Turks have been finally subjugated. The Russians have completed a second bridge across the Danube at Pvrgos, and large numbers of troops hare already passed over. The death of Wm. Longman, the wellknown English publisher, is announced. The British Privy Council has forbidden the landing of leaves oi stalks of potatoes grown in the United States, Canada or Germany. A Republican conspiracy has been discovered and frustrated at Madrid. Numerous arrests were made"there and throughout the province*. According to London dispatches of the 16th, the Russians had virtually raised the siege of Rustcbuk. They had officially acknowledged the loss of 14,459 men, killed and wounded, up to Aug. 9. Prince Nikita bad also raised the siege of the Citadel of Nicsics, because of the entry of a Turkish force into Montenegro. The whole of Bulgaria, south of Timova, had been substantially abandoned by the Russians. The Sultan has issued an Imperial decree, calling to arms all hitherto exempted. Despite the energetic attempts of the Government to stamp it out, the Colorado beetle has spread over a field of twenty-five acres at Langenr-icbenbacb, in Germany. According to Bucharest telegrams of the 17th, the fever epidemic in the Russian Army was rapidly increasing. The troops were ’also suffering for the want of suitable food. The Servian Cabinet has resigned on account of differences in respect of the foreign policy of the Government.