Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1874 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

The election returns received on the morning of the 15th are summarized as follows: In Indiana the Democrats have elected their State ticket by from 10,000 to 15,000 majority. The Congressional delegation stands eight Democrats to five Republicans, as follows: Republican— Sixth District, Milton S. Robinson; Eighth, M. C. Hunter; Ninth, T. J. Carson; Eleventh, James L. Evans; Thirteenth, J. H. Baker. Democratic —First, B. 8. Fuller; Second, J. D. Williams; Third, M. C. Kerr; Fourth, J. D. New; Fifth, W . 8. Holman; Seventh, Franklin Landers; Tenth, Wm. S. Haymond; Twelfth, Andrew H. Hamilton. The Democrats elect their State ticket in Ohio by about 18,000 majority, and carry thirteen of the twenty ■ Congressional districts. The Congressmen elected are as follows: Democratic —First District, Milton Saylor; Second, H. B. Banning; Third, J. S. Savage; Fourth* J. A. McMahon; Fifth, A. Y. Rice; Sixth, F. H. Hurd; Seventh, L. T. Neal; Ninth, E.F. Poppleton; Eleventh, J. L. Vance; Twelfth, A. T. Walling; Thirteenth, M. I. Southard; Fourteenth, J. P. Cowan; Twentieth, H. B. Payne. Republican—Eighth, 'William Lawrence; Tenth, Charles Foster; Fifteenth, N. H. Van Vorhes; Sixteenth, Lorenzo Danford; Seventeenth, L. D. Woodworth; Eighteenth, James Monroe; Nineteenth, J. A. Garfield. The Republicans have carried lowa by about 40,000 majority, and elected their Congressmen in all the districts except the Third. This makes the delegation as follows: Republican— First District, G. W. McCrary; Second, J. Q. Tufts; Fourth, H. O. Pratt; Fifth,

James Wilson; Sixth, E. S. Sampson; Seventh, J. A.Kasson; Eighth, J. W.McDill; Ninth, Addison Oliver. Anti-Monopoly —Third, L. L. Ainsworth. The Republican majority in Nebraska ranges from 10,000 to 15,000. Lorenzo Crounse, Republican, is re-elected to .Congress. The three West Virginia Congressional districts elect the Democratic candidates, as follows: First, Benjamin Wilson; Second, C. J. Faulkner; Third, F. Hereford. In .Dakota Kidder (Republican) has about 2,000 majority for Delegate to Congress. The Legislature is Republican in both brandies. In Arkansas the new Constitution is adopted and the Democratic State ticket elected by large majorities.

In a case recently decided by the Illinois Supreme Court the action of certain School Trustees in erecting an additional school-house adjoining the existing one, and assigning to it three or four negro children and a teacher to instruct them separately, there being room for such colored children in the other schoolhouse, was illegal, and beyond their authority. The Chattanooga Convention reassembled on the 14th. The Committee on Facts and Statistics was enlarged and continued indefinitely, with instructions to report to Congress every three months. The resolutions adopted declare that the Republican citizens of the reconstructed Southern States recognize the equality of all men before the law; reaffirm the Philadelphia platform; demand equal rights for all citizens, secured by appropriate State and Federal legislation; indorse the Executive in sustaining law and order in all parts of the Union and putting down outrages, and especially indorse his action in Louisiana; indorse the Administration for its prosecution of the perpetrators of such outrages in the Federal courts; declare it was the duty of the Federal Government, when a State Government was sought to be overthrown by revolutionary action, to interfere and give the people thereof a republican government; deprecate drawing race and color lines; recommend the appointment of none but honest and capable men to Federal offices, and the removal of all others; urge appropriations of publit lands to purposes of education in proportion to the illiteracy of States; favor appropriations for improvement of the great rivers; ask all citizens who favor the administration of government on principles of justice to aid in restoring tranquillity to the people develop the material interests of the country; denounce the Associated Press agents in the South for the alleged partisan manner in which they perform their duties. An address to the people of the United Spates was' also presented and adopted.

The Congressional nominations on the 12th were as follows: Republican—H. F. Butler, Sixth Massachusetts District, renominated; Daniel W. Gooch, Fifth Massachusetts, renominated; Henry L. Peirce, Third Massachusetts, renominated ; George F. Hoar, Ninth Massachusetts, renominated. Demas Barnes, of the Brooklyn Argue, has been recently indicted for libeling Henry C. Bowen, of the Independent. The Attorney-General replies'to the Governor of Tennessee, who recently protested against the further arrest of citizens of the State under the provisions of the Enforcement Act, and requested that they might be turned over to the State authorities for punishment, that the President is as much bound tjO enforce that law as any other United States law. • He declines to accede to Gov. Brown’s request. The Italian Government has notified ex-President Thiers that his stay in Italy and his strictures upon the MacMahon Government were distasteful, and calculated to disturb the harmony of its relations with France. According to the October returns to the Department of Agriculture, the average

condition of the corn crop is 86 per cent., against 88 per cent, in September. . Dr. J. C. Ayer has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Seventh Massachusetts District, and B.’ W. Harris by those of the Second District. y The new schedule for Eastern freight, which goes into effect Nov. 10, raises the rate from Chicago to New York five cents jier hundred pounds. The practice of furnishing return passes to stock-deal-ers is to be discontinued. The second Congress of the Association for the Advancement of Women commenced its session in Chicago on the 15th. A mass-meeting of the Illinois Woman’s Suffrage Association was held the evening before, at which a resolution was adopted to ask the Legislature to submit the question of woman suffrage to a vote of the people. On the 15th the statue of Lincoln was unveiled at Springfield, 111., in the presence of over 15,000 people. President Grant, Gen. Sherman, Vice-President Wilson and other distinguished Generals and civilians were present. An oration was delivered by Hon. R. J. Oglesby, the President of the Monument Association, and a poem read, written by James Judson Lord. A brief address was also made by President Grant. The reunion of the Army of the Tennessee was held at Springfield, 111., on the 14th. Gen. W. T. Sherman was elected President for the ensuing year. After an appropriate speech by the Pres-ident-elect, Vice-President Wilson was called upon and made a few remarks. Gen. Hurlbut delivered the oration of the day, and a poem was read by Gen. Tillson. Late advices from Madrid say that Spain was compelled to pay Great Britain $40,000 on account of the indemnity for the Virginius butchery before she would recognize the Republic. The Union Pacific Railway has been declared completed according to law, and as soon as the President shall have approved of the finding of the Commissioners the land-grant patent will issue. The following is the latest estimate of the complexion of the Indiana State Legislature: Senate—Republicans, 24; Democrats, 23; Independents, 3. House —Republicans, 87; Democrats, 54; Independents, 9. According to a dispatch received by the Attorney-General on the 16th, the United States Marshal at Montgomery, Ala., had arrested forty-two more persons guilty of outrages upon Republicans and of stopping the mails. A party of seven men lately started from Yankton for the Black Hills. On the 11th they were attacked by Indians at the mouth of the Little Platte. A desperate fight ensued, in which one of the party was killed, one fatally and two slightly wounded. Ten Indians were killed or wounded. The whites immediately started back and reached Yankton on the 15th. The Indians are understood to express a determination to prevent white men entering the hills at all hazards.

President Grant and family reached Chicago on the 16th to attend the wedding of Col. Fred Grant and Miss Honore.. One of the harbors of the Navigator Islands was recently entered by a German man-of-war, whose commander threatened to take possession of the group unless an indemnity of SIB,OOO, for some real or fancied injury, were immediately paid. The American residents raised $6,000 and gave bond for the remainder, payable in six months. According to a Berlin dispatch of the 17th the following explanation is made of the late arrest of Count von Arnim: Bismarck became indignant at the Count for preferring an ultramontane monarchy in France to a comparatively liberal and pacific republic, and determined to remove him. Not wishing, however, to offend the Count, Bismarck wrote him censorious letters, which he expected would induce the Count to resign. Von Arnim, refusing, was finally absolutelydismissed, and took with him Bismarck’s letters, which are now represented to be so fearfully offensive. Late advices from Madrid say that 400 Carlists had been captured recently at Albacete. In a late -engagement at Amposta 1,000 Carlists had been killed. The Carlist chieftain, Nava, had lately destroyed eleven bridges on the Valencia & Tarragona Railway. The White Leagues of St. Mary’s Parish have lately adopted resolutions offering to divide nominations with competent colored people, and fully recognizing all their civil and political rights. The Chairman of the Sumter County (Ala.) Conservatives was arrested on the 17th, upon the charge of conspiracy to injure Detective Hester. A passenger train on the* P., Ft. W. & C. Railroad was thrown from the track near Pierceton, Ind., on the morning of the 17th, and three cars were thrown down a high embankment, piling 150 passengers in a promiscuous heap. Eight persons were seriously injured.

J. D. Ward was renominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Second Illinois District on the 17th. The next Nebraska State Legislature, according to latest returns, will stand: Senate—Ten Republicans to three Democrats ; House— I Twenty-eight Republicans to seven Democrats aHd three Independents, with one district id hear from. An express train *n the Marietta & Cincinnati Railroad broke through Obanyon bridge, near Loveland, Ohio, on the morning of the 18th. The engineer, Dan Perdue, and tpe fireman, Joseph Parent,

both of Chillicothe, Ohio, were killed instantly. Both might have saved themsclves -by jumping, as the train was not running over twelve miles per hour. They died at their posts, and thereby saved the passengers, not one of whom Whs hurt. Ansel Stevens, who was injured on the Grand Trunk Railway last year while traveling on a free pass, has lately recovered; In a Canadian court, $12,838 damages, the court holding the company liable whether fare were paid or not.

A Washington telegram of the 19th says that our claims upon Spain for indemnity on account of the Virginius affair would become subject to arbitration according to the terms, of the Fish-Polo protocol. The Government had received no confirmation of the rumor of the payment of England’s claim. The Conservatives of South Carolina are circulating a petition asking the Government to resume military control of the State. The Louisiana State Republican Central Committee have consented to renewed conferences with the Conservatives. The official majority of Ainsworth, Anti-Monopoly candidate for Congress from the Third lowa District, is sixtythree. The managers of the Michigan Central Railroad having refused their consent to the crossing of their track by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, the Circuit Court of Porter County, Ind., and the United States Court were appealed to, and decided that such crossing should be allowed mear Lake Station, Ind. Being notified that resistance would be met with, notwithstanding such decisions, the managers of the B. & O. Road called on the Sheriff of Porter County to aid them in makißg the crossing, and on the 19th went with a posse of citizens to the point where the crossing was to be made, and there found the main track of the M. C. Road obstructed by construction trains, and barricades of ties, rails and wood on eaeh side of the crossing, between the main track and the fence, each barricade being manned by a number of armed men in the employ of the M. C. Company. An attempt was mtfde to disperse the opposing crowd, but without success. The Sheriff read the Riot act and called upon the Governor of the State for assistance. An attempt to arrest the leaders of the M. C. gang was successfully resisted. Gov. Hendricks telegraphed to President Joy, of the M. C. Road, calling on him to interpose his authority to suppress this riotous demonstration on the part of his men and to disband them. The opposing parties encamped on the field during the night of the 19th. Two companies of militia were ordered by the Governor to the scene of disturbance. Miss Maria Mitchell, the lady astronomer in Vassar College, has been elected President of Women’s Congress for the ensuing year. The report of the killing of Buckland, the New York newspaper correspondent, was declared to be untrue in a Bayonne dispatch of the 20th.

The Souhegan National Bank at Milford, N. H., was robbed on the night of the 19th of SIOO,OOO in currency and bonds. The cashier was first captured and gagged and then compelled to open the vault. Steerage rates to Europe by the various steamers have been advanced to twenty dollars. The Assistant State Treasurer of New York, one Phelps, has been convicted of embezzlement, larceny and forgery, and sentenced to the State Prison for fifteen years. Senator Edmunds has been re-elected to the United States Senate for six years from March 4,1875, by the Vermont Legislature. E. E. Morgan’s Sons, shipping agents for the California and Oregon Granges, have failed for $350,000. The next meeting of the National Council of the Union League of America will be held at Cincinnati in January next. Eighteen Mormons were indicted for polygamy by a Salt Lake jury on the 20th. Col. Cochrane having declined to accept the Republican Congressional nomination in the Fifth Wisconsin District, Judge Hiram Barber, of Dodge, has been nominated. The Republicans of the First and Third Hlinois Districts nominated Sidney Smith and Charles B. Farwell as their candidates, on the 20th. Memphis, Tenn., was visited by a $75,000 fire on the morning of the 20th. Eighty-eijght • men have been arrested for attempting to cut the Sny Levee, below Quincy, and held to bail in the sum of SSOO each to answel at the December term of the Circuit Court. The levee was attacked because it cut off the supply of water from the mill of Rupert & Shaw, who claim that the Sny is a navigable stream, and that the Commissioners were not authorized to obstruct it.

The railroad war in Porter County, Ind., terminated on the 20th without bloodshed, the Michigan Central Railroad Company withdrawing its forces. The track of the Baltimore & Ohio Road was laid during the day under the protection of the militia. Lieut.-Col. F. D. Grant, son of the President, and Miss Ida Marie, daughter of H. H. Honore, Esq.,of Chicago, were married at the residence of the bride’s parents, in Chicago, on the 20th.