Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1875 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

The Carlista were recently defeated at Rofla, in Barcelona. Don Esp&rtero, formerly Regent of Spain, died on the 218 aged eighty-two years. The Attorney-General has given it as his opinion that it is the duty of the Government to sustain the report of the Lo u isiana Election Returning Board. On and after Jan. 1,1875, the domestic mails of the United States and Canada are to be transmitted through each country in closed bags free of extra charge. - A clergyman in Washington recently committed suicide on being detected in stealing books from a Washington bookstore. The general term of the Brooklyn City £Sourt has reversed the decision of Judge McCue, requiring Mr. Tilton to furnish Mr. Beecher with a bill of particulars in the suit brought against the latter. Gen. Sheridan left for New Orleans on the evening of the 27th, under instructions to hold himself in readiness to put down any uprising against the Kellogg Government. The Mississippi State Democratic Convention has been postponed from Jan. 8 to April 7. The Ottawa (Ill.) Opera-House and other adjoining structures were burned on the morning of the 29th. Loss about SIOO,OOO. A counter-revolution has broken out in Spain, this time in favor of Don Alphonso, son of ex-Queen Isabella. The Committee of Ways and Means, on the 80th ult., traced $275,000 of the Pacific Mail Company’s money, paid out by Irwin, to John G. Schumaker, Congressman from the Second New York District . The Freemasons of N6w York gave King Kalakaua a reception on the night of the 30th ult. John Goodman was hanged at Ottawa, Ohio, on the 80th ult., for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Haywood some time in April last. According to a report made to Indian Agent Howard by Spotted Tail’s band, a gang of twenty-one miners are encamped in the Black Hills. The Congressional sub-committee on Louisiana affairs held its first session in New Orleans on the 30th ult.

The Vicksburg Congressional Committee reached that place on the 30th ult. Ex-Gov. Warmeth had his preliminary examination on the 30th, upon the charge of murdering D. C. Byerly, and was discharged, the court holding that the homicide was justified. It was announced in Madrid dispatches of the 81st ult. that the Spanish Republic had collapsed, and that Don Alphonso had been proclaimed King of Spain. The King had formed his Cabinet and telegraphed to the Pope asking his blessing. Gen. Campos had entered Valencia at the head of the troops that were sent to oppose him when he announced for Alphonso. Gen. Dorregaray, the Carlist chieftain, had laid down his arms and given in his adhesion to the new movement. Mrs. Motley, the wife of the American historian J. Lothrop Motley, died in London on the Ist. Sixty thousand colliers in South Wales have struck work in consequence of a reduction in wages. The deaths of the English Duke of Montrose and M. Ledru Rollin, the eminent Communist, are announced. Travel by rail in Austria was entirely suspended on the 30th and 31st ult. in comequence of the prevalence of heavy snow-storms. Over 36,000 persons have perished from starvation in the city of Adana. A Washington telegram of the Ist says Vice-President Wilson had decided to preside over the Senate during the remainder of the session. The internal revenue receipts for the month of December were $8,984,630. For the fiscal year to Dec. 31, $52,273,430 , Gov. Tilden, of New York, was inau gurated on the Ist. The late Gerrit Smith was buried on the 81 st ult. The Connecticut Republican State Convention will assemble on the 20th. Gen. M. L. Smith, of Illinois, was found dead in his bed at a Brooklyn hotel recently. The estate of the late James Fisk, Jr., has been found to be $178,500 worse than nothing. On the Ist great excitement was caused at Vinita, I. T., by a report that 200 wellarmed Rosa, or Piu, Indians were marching on that place with a view of attacking the town.' Nearly all the white inhabitants had left the town. On the night of the 31st ult. Assistant United States Appraiser Dunn (colored) was shot in the side and instantly killed while walking the streets of New Orleans. The Conservatives say the shooting was accidental. London dispatches say that King Alphonso will be speedily recognized by the European powers. Castelar and the other leading Spanish Republicans have given in their adhesion to the King. The Swiss, Austrian and Belgian Governments have adopted stringent measures to prevent the importation of American potatoes “ infected with Colorado beetle.” Garibaldi has declined the national grant for his relief. The reported resignation of Gen. Spinner was denied on the 3d. Subpoenas were serve<| on tlie 2d on

the witnesses in the Tilton-Beecher suit and a panel of 500 jurors drawn. At the time of his death Gerrit Smith was worth $1,250,600. Capt. E. B. Ward, of Detroit, died of apoplexy on the 2d. He leaves an estate of $10,000,000. The public debt statement Jan. 1 ia as follows: Six per cent, bonds. ...' $1,157,065,100 Five per cent, bonds 556,535,800 ToUl com bonds ...1....51,718*10,800 Lawful money debt 14,67Mf0 Matured debt 19,133,390 Legal-tender notes 382,072,817 Certificates of deposit 41,300,000 Fractional currency 46,390,596 Coin certificates ■ 28,540,600 Interest 39,724,477 Total debt .$2,380,338,682 Cash in Treasury— , Coin - $82,587,449 Currency 18,952,932 Special deposits held for the redemption of certificates of deposit, as provided by 1aw.....' ...r. 41,300,000 Total in Treasury sm.ffifty Debt less cash in Treasury..... $3,142,506,302 Increase daring December 8,650,967 Decrease since Jane 30, 1874 489^989 Bonds issued to the Pacific Railway Companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding ..." $64,683,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid... 1,938,’ r OS Interest paid by the United States.. 34,825,896 Interest repaid by the transportation of mails, etc 5,601,888 Balance of interest paid by United States 18,723,558

New Orleans dispatches of the 8d say two Republican members of the Louisiana Legislature had been kidnaped by the Conservatives to prevent their being present at the organization of that body on the 4th. Gov. Kellogg had submitted a letter to the Congressional Investigation Committee proposing that they decide the question of the disputed election of 1872, and offering to submit to whatever verdict they might render. The Spanish Cabinet has resolved te suspend the jury trial system for the present.

There is talk of the marriage of King Alphonso with the daughter of the Duke de Montpensier. The statement of the State Treasurer of Michigan for 1874 shows a balance in the Treasury, Dec. 31, 1873, of $632,068.69; receipts daring 1874, $2,152,811.38. Total, $2,784,880.07. Expenditures dnring 1874, $1,891,794.51. Balance Dec. 31, 1874, $898,085.56. State bonded debt, $1,528,000; non-interest-bearing debt, sl,588,085.64. Gen. Sheridan at nine o’clock p. m. on the 4th issued an order at New Orleans stating that under instructions from the President he assumed control of the Department of the Gulf, consisting of the Btates of Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi, and the Gulf posts as far eastward and embracing Fort Jefferson and Key West, Fla., excluding the posts in Mobile Bay, which would hereafter constitute one of the departments of the Military Division of the Missouri. The General also sent a dispatch to Secretary Belknap at Washington, announcing “ the existence in this State of a spirit of defiance to all lawtul authority, and an uncertainty of life which is hardly realized by the General Government or the country at large. The lives of citizens have become so jeopardized that, unless something is done to give protection to the people, all security usually afforded by. law will be overridden. Defiance to the laws and the murder of individuals seem to be looked upon by the community here from a standpoint which gives impunity to all who choose to indulge in either; and the civil government appears powerless to punish or even arrest.” The Bank of Spain has advanced 40,000,000 reals to the new Government.

A Paris dispatch of the -sth says the great powers had instructed their representatives to enter into semi-official relations with the new Government. An explosion in an English coal-mine at Rotherham on the sth killed eight persons. An Associated Press dispatch of the sth says the “ Administration is well satisfied that Gen. Sheridan is in every way competent to curry out the ideas of the General Government" respecting whatever participation it may be thought necessary to take regarding affairs in Louisiana. These, as now understood, constitute an indorsement of the report of the Returning Board and the maintaining of the authority of the Legisla] ture reported elected by that Board.” The New Hampshire State Democratic Convention, which met at Concord on the sth, nominated Hiram R. Roberts, of Rollinsford, for Governor.

The Wisconsin State Grange met at Madison on the sth, 150 delegates being present. The Master reported 2,008 Granges in the State against, 304 one year ago. He commended, in warm terms, the efforts making to improve the navigation of the Mississippi, Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, as tending toward cheaper transportation. The position taken by the Order in regard to railroad transportation he thought should be maintained. He urged the sending of help to the brethren in Kansas and Nebraska, and the formation of a permanent fond for the purpose of engaging in the manufacture of agricultural implements. There was considerable excitement in New Orleans on the sth over the dispatch of Gen. Sheridan to Secretary Belknap, representing the State of Louisiana to be in a state of, or bordering on, anarchy. At meetings of the Cotton Exchange, the Merchants’ Exchange and other gatherings resolutions were adopted denouncing the statements of Gen. Sheridan as false in point of fact and calculated to convey a wrong impression to the people in other sections. John McEnery sent a protest to President Grant against 1 the acts of the United States forces in

the State-House on the sth. Some talk was had of a compromise of some sort in regard to the Legislature. Gen. Sheridan had sent another telegram to the Secretary of War, in which he expressed the opinion that “ the terrorism now existing in Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas could be entirely removed and confidence and fair-dealing established by the arrest and trial of the ringleaders of the armed White Leagues.” He suggests that if Congress wonldpass a bHI declaring them banditti they conld be tried by a* military commission. Among the witnesses before the Congressional Investigation Committee on the sth were ex-Gov. Hahn and Gov. Kellogg. In the course of his statement the latter said he did not think the State Government could support itself without the*. United States forces, he claiming that the great bulk of his supporters are in the country, while a large element opposed to his administration reside in the city.