Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1874 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

The Department of Agriculture expresses the opinion, based upon reports recently received, that the wheat crop will nearly average that of last year; that the crop of oats, potatoes and hay will be a fair average, but that tobacco will yield less than half a crop. The War Department has sent four cavalry companies to Western Alabama to suppress alleged violence. A mail train and a freight train collided on the Allegheny Valley Railroad, near New Bethlehem, Pa., on the 30th ult,, in consequence of the telegraph operator at New Bethlehem failing to hold the passenger train for orders, as directed. Four persons were killed, and the car containing the mail, express packages and baggage was burned. A National Congregational Council met at New Haven, Conn., on the 30th ult. The insurance companies connected with the National Board of Underwriters have threatened to withdraw from Chicago, and several ceased issuing policies on the Ist. The Northwestern and Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroads, according to a Madison (Wis.) special of the 30th ult., had concluded to comply with the requirements of the Potter law. Lyman K. Bass was renominated on the 30th ult. by the Republicans of the Thirty-first New York District. On the 30th ult. Gov. Kellogg, of Louisiana, issued an address to the people of the United States in which he declares his willingness to have all his official acts subjected to a rigid and critical examination. The recent statement that the Queen had paid the private debts of the Prince of Wales is contradicted by the London Times of the Ist. London dispatches of the Ist announce that the direct cable had parted during a recent gale, and that the vessels engaged in laying it had returned to Queenstown. The London papers of the Ist contain advices that the Carlist army in the North of Spain is fast disintegrating: Several of the insurgent leaders had been shot by order of Don Carlos for proposing a cessation of hostilities, and others had surrendered to the National forces. Secretary Bristow has given notice that $10,000,000 in 5-20 bonds of the issue of 1862 will be redeemed on the Ist of January, 1875. The following Congressional nominations were made on the Ist: Democratic —First Tennessee District, William McFarland; Third Michigan, Fidus Livermore; Fourteenth New York, George M. Beebe. Republican—Fifth Tennessee, H. H. Harrison, renominated; Twentyseventh New York, T. C. Platt, renominated; Second Texas, F. W. Sumner; Sixth New Jersey, Marcus L. Ward, renominated. Reform—Eighth Wisconsin, C. W. Cate. Democratic-Liberal—Thir-ty-third New York, A. F. Allen. The public debt statement for Oct. 1 is as follows: Six per cent, bonds $1,207,204,600 Five per cent, bonds 517,025,200 Total coin bonds $1,724,229,800 Lawful money debt $14,678,000 Matured debt 6,457,710 Legal-tender notes 382,075,407 Certificates of deposit.. . 56,350,000 Fractional currency 46,731,018 Coin certificates 26,415,600 Interest 32,681,177 Total debt $2,289,618,712 Cash in Treasury— Coin $77,409,677 Currency 16,115,840 Special deposits held for the redemption of certificates of deposit, as provided by law 56,350,000 Tola, in Treasury $149,875,517 Debt less cash ih Treasury $2,139,743,195 Decrease during September 435,417 Bonds issued to the Pacific Railway Companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding $64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid. 969,352 Interest paid by the United States.. 24,325,396 Interest repaid by the transportation of mails, etc 5,469,979 Balance of interest paid by United States 18,855,417 The Grand Hotel, at Saratoga, N. Y., was entirely consumed op the Ist. The loss aggregates about $300,000. The law providing for a special election of Judges and Attorneys of the judicial districts into which the State was divided by the Legislature in 1873 has been declared constitutional by the Indiana Supreme Court. A barge laden with powder and lying near the London Zoological Gardens exploded on the 2d, killing and wounding a number of persons and shattering houses and bridges for two miles away. The bodies of five persons had been recovered from the canal. Several valuable animals in the garden were killed.

The recent typhoon proved more destructive in Japan than in China. A late arrival reports that several steamers and over 1,000 junks were wrecked, 6,000 houses destroyed and 300 lives lost at Kobe, Nagasaki and Sagaken. The Attorney-General has recently advised the appointment of Deputy Marshals in remote parts of each Southern District, to act at once in the arrest of parties committing outrages in the vicinity. Elmer Washburn, once Police Superintendent at Chicago, has been appointed Chief of the Government Secret Service. Mr. Beecher attended the weekly prayer-meeting at Plymouth Church on the evening of the 2d. He was warmly received by his friends. Charles Sumner’ssestate has been appraised and is valued at $134,758. The following Congressional nominations were made on the 2d: Democratic and Independent—Ninth Illinois District, L. F. Ross. Liberal—First Michigan, A. 8. Williams. Gov. Kellogg has removed two officials, upon the recommendation of the new

Advisory Board, because it was charged that they obstructed registration. The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has recently decided that parents, and not teachers, have the right to prescribe the course of study their children shall pursue in school. The Nevada Independents met at Carson on the 2d and nominated a ticket composed of seven Democrats, four Republicans and three Independents. For Governor, L. R. Bradleys Lieutenant-Governor, A. J. Hatch; Congressman, A- C. Ellis. The King of Italy has dissolved the Chamber of Deputies and ordered a new election. According to a recent Madrid letter Germany had sent a note to France insisting that an army of 20,000 men should be stationed on the Spanish frontier to prevent aid from reaching the Carlists from French territory. Unless this were done Germany would feel compelled to do so herself. On the 4th the Ministers of Great Britain and France presented their credentials to Marshal Serrano. It was noticeable that they made no reference to the Spanish Republic. The United States Government, according to a recent Washington dispatch, is vigorously pressing its demand for indemnity for the Virginius affair.

Theodore Tilton and Francis D. Moulton were indicted for malicious slander by a Brooklyn Grand Jury on the 3d, on complaint of Mr. Beecher. In his testimony before the Grand Jury Mr. Beecher characterized their allegations with reference to Mrs. Tilton, another lady and himself as “ malicious falsehoods.” Mr. Tilton printed a letter on the 4th in which he solemnly reaffirms the literal and absolute truth of his charges against Mr. Beecher and demands an immediate trial. Mr. Beecher preached to a large congregation in Plymouth Church on the 4th. The Alabama Democratic and Conservative State Executive Committee have issued an address to the people of the United States, in which they declare that there is no truth in the recent reports', of outrages in Alabama, and that such charges are made solely for the purpose of influencing the elections in the North and West, and to excuse the sending of troops into Alabama to control the coming election. The Northwestern Railway Commissioners at their recent session at Madison, Wis., prepared a form for reports for the easy collation and publication of the railway statistics of the Northwest. The next meeting of the Commissioners will be held at Springfield, 111., on the 9th of December.

Commodore M. R. Woolsey, U. S. N., died of yellow fever at Pensacola, Fla., on the 2d. Nearly 10,000 voters of Charleston, S. C., assembled in mass meeting on the evening of the 3d to demand the removal of the Board of Election Commissioners, on the ground of their unscrupulous partisanship. The Vicar of Posen has been forcibly ejected from Germany, having disobeyed an order to leave the country within twelve hours. The Sultan of Morocco has promulgated a decree forbidding the exportation of corn for three years. According to a Santander dispatch of the sth, a serious mutiny had broken out in the Carlist camp at Durango. Don Carlos had been seriously wounded, a shot taking effect in the stomach. The Commissioners appointed to close up the affairs of the Freedmen’s Bank at Washington say that only $45,000 of the $600,000 required for a dividend of 20 per cent, had been collected up to the 5 th. Several important failures occurred in New York on the sth—among others the banking-house of Clews & Co. On the evening of the 4th a lot of Texan steers got loose in the streets of New York, and before they were shot fifteen persons were run over and seriously injured. The following were the Congressional nominations on the sth: People’s Party —First Illinois District, B. G. Caulfield; Second District, C. H. Harrison; Third District, J. V. LeMoyne. Democratic — Fourth Arkansas, Thomas M. Gunter; Twelfth Ohio, William E. Fink. According to a recent dispatch from Montgomery, Ala., several of the parties implicated in the murder of Billings, a Northern man, had been arrested. A New Orleans dispatch of the 4th, published in the New York Times of the sth, says that, upon the arrival of United States troops at Coushatta, several prominent White Leaguers, supposed to have been implicated in the recent murders, left the place and fled to Texas and Arkansas. On the sth a letter was received at the Postofiice Department in Washington from a special agent sent to investigate the murder of a colored route agent in Alabama a little over a month ago, which says: “The reign of terror existing in this country at present far exceeds anything of the kind I have seen. Armed men are riding over the country, and colored people are afraid to go into the fields to save their crops from waste and ruin.” On the 6th, at Northampton, England, after the of the vote by which Bradlaugh was defeated for Parliament, a mob of his supporters attacked the house of one of his opponents with stones and other offensive missiles. 'Hie police were unable to quell the riot, and called upon the military for assistance. During the struggle which followed many persons were seriously injured.

According to a Santander dispatch of the 6th the report that an attempt had been made to assassinate Don Carlos had been confirmed. Several important failures occurred in New York on the 6th, and stocks were very generally depressed in consequence. There will be a total eclipse of the moon on the night of the 24th inst., visible in this country. The eclipse will begin a little before midnight and end about three o’clock on the morning of the 25th—the total eclipse occurring about one o’clock. According to a recent address issued by the Louisiana Conservative State Central Committee the White Leagues were organized as an offset to Black Leagues, composed of colored men, which at one time they say were numerous throughout the State.