Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1874 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

The report of the attempted assassination of Don Carlos is pronounced to be untrue, on the strength of a Madrid dispatch of -the 4th. The Cariists had recently suffered another defeat at Igualada. According to a special telegram to the London Post of the 7th anarchy reigned in Turkistan, and the armed intervention of Russia seemed inevitable. The War Department is in constant receipt of applications for troops from disturbed portions of Alabama, Tennessee and Louisiana. Gen. Sheridan on the 7th, in response to a request from the War Department, ordered the Thirteenth Infantry to report to the commander of the Department of the South at New Orleans. An official bulletin has just been issued by the Secretary of the National Grange, from which it appears that the number of subordinate Granges in the several States on the Ist of October was 20,788. During the month before 409 new Granges had been formed. The next session of the National Grange will be held in Charleston, S. C., on the first Wednesday in February, 1875. Rev. T. M. Eddy, formerly editor of the Northwestern Christian Advocate, died in New York on the 7th, aged fifty-one years. At the time of his death he was Missionary Secretary of the Methodist Episcopal Church. At the Massachusetts State Republican Convention, held at Worcester on the

7th, Gov. Talbot was renominated; H. G. Knight nominated for Lieutenant- « Governor; Oliver Warner for Secretary of State; Charles R. Train for AttorneyGeneral; Charles Endicott for Auditor, *nnd Charles Adams, Jr., for Treasurer. The resolutions adopted declare in favor of a sound currency and such legislation by Congress as shall place the currency of the country on a par with gold; express gratitude to the President for his promptness in suppressing the New Orleans outbreak; declare that the Republican party has proved itself under all circumstances the party of progress and reform 4 etc. A Bt. Paul Grand Jury has found twenty-six indictments against ex-State Auditor Mcllrath for malfeasance in office. The elections in Georgia on the 7th resulted in a Democratic victory. The Democratic majority in the State Legislature on joint ballot will be about 205. The following were the Congressional nominations made on the 7th: Democratic —First Michigan District, A. S. Williams; Second Kentucky, John Young

Brown, renominated; Fourteenth Illinois, J. H. Pickrell. Republican—Fifth Wisconsin, John Cochrane. Republican and Independent—Tenth Missouri, Ira B. Hyde. s Gov. Kellogg, in a reply to the recent address of the Conservative State Committee, asserts his anxiety to secure a full registration and a fair election, and declares his willingness to do all in his power to that end. Count Yon Arnim, late German Minister at Paris, has recently been arrested upon, the charge of purloining from the archives of the French Legation certain documents relating to State secrets with a view to their publication in a forthcoming book. The Count at last accounts was kept in close confinement, bail fer a large amount being refused. The documents are said to relate to the establishment of a new Government in France and to German interference with the affairs of Spain. The following Congressional nomina-

tions were made on the Bth: Democratic —Edward S. Esty, Twenty-eighth New York District. Republican—John Means, Tenth Kentucky. Thomas E. Ricks, a member of the Salt Lake (Utah) Grand Jury, was recently indicted for polygamy. He is charged with having five wives, three of whom he has married since 1802. His daughter was the principal witness against him. By agreement of the attorneys the United States Supreme Court will be asked to take up the railroad case appealed frog the United States District Court at Madison, Wis., on the 10th of , December. ‘''Pfof. Swing has asked the Chicago Presbytery to drop his name from their roll. At a recent meeting the request was granted by a vote of 18 to 11, and resolutions were adopted professing warm personal regard for Prof. Swing and declaring that the presbytery acceded to his request with great reluctance. At their recent State Convention the Conservatives of South Carolina resolved to support the candidates recently nominated by the Independent Republicans. .They announced their platform to be honesty and economy' in the administration of State affairs. Charles G. Hammond, of Chicago, has been appointed a member of the Board of Indian Commissioners. The Postmaster-General has announced that hereafter parties having claims against the department will be dealt with directly without the intervention of claim agents. The Presbytery of Jersey City, N. J., have presented charges against the Rev. J. 8. Glendennlng for seduction, breach of promise, etc. Thomas Ballard, alias John Davis, of Buffalo, one of the most expert engravers in the country, was recently arrested by United States detectives upon thechargc of counterfeiting. A large quantity of counterfeit meney, dies, plates, etc., was captured. The election in Delaware on the Bth for Inspectors and Assessors to conduct the November election resulted in the

success of the Democracy by an aggregate majority of 450. According to a recent lettei from Con-, gressman Morey to the Louisiana 'Stale - Republican Committee intimidation pjre» vailed in Union parish to such an pxtcni that not more than 800 qf the colored voters would register. He stst&d fujther that a similar state of things existed in sSme of the other parifflng£ (£OO4 The commission charged with investigating the facts in regard to the killing of Osage Indians by the Kansas militia have reported that the attack was unprovoked and utterly unjustifiable, and recommend that the United States Government repay the Osages for loss of property captured by the attacking party. C. C. Warren, of Princeton, HI., has recently obtained judgment against the -C., B. & Q. Railroad Company for SI,OOO, for extortionate passenger and freight charges. Late adviees from Madrid say that Cariists were coming into Barcelona and Tarragona and asking for amnesty. Nineteen natives of Navarre in the Carlist army had been shot for insubordination. An explosion had recently occurred at Aspatia, in the building used for the manufacture of cartridges for the Cariists, which caused the instant death of eighteen persons. Vienna dispatches of the 10th say that the Schleswig-Holstein question is to be submitted to the arbitration of Great Britain. The father of Charley Ross, the Philadelphia kidnaped boy, has become insane in consequence of grief at the loss of his son and the slanders which have been published concerning himself and family.

The Tammany Democracy of New York hay© unanimouHy nominated WnE H. Wickhafn for Mayor. The recent election for Councils General in France resulted as follows: Republicans, 872; Monarchists, 605; Bonapartists, 155. According to a Bayonne dispatch of the 12th the withdrawal of Gen. Dorregaray from the Cariist artny had greatly discouraged the adherents of Don Carlos. A Madrid dispatch of the 12th reports the defeat of the Carlists.near Fortuna. A late dispatch from the Cape of Good Hope reports the discovery of another diamond field near Phillipstown. The Chief-Just ice and the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, except Judges Davis and Bradley, assembled in Washington on the 12th. B. F. Butler and D. W. Gooch were renominated for Congress on the 12th by the Republicans of the Fifth and Sixth Massachusetts Districts. According to returns published in the Hartford Post on the 12th in 165 towns in Connecticut the result was as follows: Republican, 70; Democratic, 76; mixed, 19. Gen. Mackenzie had a fight with the Cheyennes on Jute Creek, near the fork of the Red River, Texas, on the 27th ult., and destroyed over 100 lodges and captured 1,424 horses and mules. Satanta and Big Tree with twenty-four Kiowa lodges were surrendered to Gen. Neill on the sth.

President Grant paid a visit to the Indian Territory on the 11th. He was warmly welcomed by the Cherokees. A Salt Lake United States Marshal recently attempted to serve a process upon Brigham Young, but was assaulted and driven back by the gate keeper. Procuring a posse, he served his paper, and Brigham apologized for the discourtesy, and said it was unauthorized. New Orleans dispatches of the 12tlr report several factional fights between Republicans in St. James’ and other parishes. Dispatches had been received by the Governor asserting that Republicans were being intimidated in St. Martin’s Parish, and that they dared not register Other dispatches denied the intimidation. Two battalions of Cariists surrendered at Algorta recently, and the Cariist authorities at Durango have given-jhffdic notice that those who wish to lay down their arms may do so. From these and other indications of disintegration the Pail Mall Gazette of the 13th prophesies the speedy surrender of the entire Carlist army. . > , . i A Constantinople dispatch of the 18th says the town of Akhiolyi had been recently entirely destroyed by fire. The President, on the 13th, accepted the resignation of Judge Busteed, of Alabama. The American Woman Suffrage Association commenced its annual session at Detroit on the 13th. The returns received on the morning of the 14th of the elections of the preceding day were very meager. Inf&di4n» the , Republicans claimed to havfc secufed a majority in both branches of the Legislature. In Ohio the Democrats claimed to

have carried the State by about 20,000 majority, and to have made important gains in the Congressional delegationIn lowa it was thought the Republicans had been generally successful, though by reduced . majorities. In Nebraska the Republican State ticket and both branches of the Legislature had been elected by about last year’s majority. Lorenzo Crounse (Rep.) was re-elect-ed to Congress. In Dakota, Kidder (Rep.) had been elected Delegate to Congress by about 2,000 majority. The Conservatives had carried Little Rock, Ark. The Southern Republican Convention met at Chattanooga on the 13th. Lewis E. Parsons, of Alabama, was chosen permanent President. committee, consisting of one from each State, was appointed to prepare an address qpon the condition of affaire in the Southern

States, and a like committee to gather ana collect facts and statistics in regard Jo tlfeicondition of the Southern States.