Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1875 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

- A Washington dispatch of the 6th says that the Secretary of War had telegraphed to Gen. Sheridan the approval of the President and the Cabinet of his coarse so far. Another dispatch of the same date says the Presklent will not issue the proclamation suggested in Sheridan’s dispatch of the day before. » The New York Assembly was organ* ized on the sth by the election pf Jeremiah McGuire as Speaker and Hiram Calkins as Clerk. The message of the Governor showed the fund debt of the State to be $30,000,000; reduction last year $6,000,000; balance in the Treasury $7,000,000. Gen. Sheridan telegraphed on the 6th that New Orleans was quiet. Threats had been made to assassinate him bat he thought them idle and would not be prevented thereby from enforcing all orders. The Chairman of the Committee of Seventy had issued a card calling on his feLow-ckiaens to avoid by all means the troops sent into their midst, as their deliverance from political bondage depended on their prudence and forbearance, and a conflict with the soldiers or authorities would bring ruin to their hopes. The French Ministers have tendered their resignations, but the President has refused to accept them until he could form a Cabinet from the new majority in the Assembly. Gov. William Gaston, of Massachusetts, was inaugurated on the 7th. The Michigan Legislature organized on the 6th. John P. Hoyt was elected Speaker of the House. There are 506 Granges in Wisconsin, against 304 last year. Gov. Allen on the 7th sent a special message to the Ohio Legislature protesting against the work of the Federal troops in Louisiana.

R. G. Boone has been elected Speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives. Both houses of the Louisiana StAte Legislature were in session on the 7th. The Conservatives remained in caucus. The pastors of six of the Little Rock (Ark.) churches have published a card denying Gen. Sheridan’s statement that terrorism existed in that State, claiming that no such terrorism had existence there, and that there was no repression of public opinion or private action except that imposed by an ordinary code of laws. : Instructions have been issued to the German Imperial Bank to purchase gold at an advanced rate in order to compete successfully with the American Government and attract gold, to Germany. This action is taken in view of the contemplated resumption of specie payments by the United States. According to Washington dispatches of the Bth the Administration was awaiting official information prior to the time at which Gen. Sheridan took command of the department before deciding definitely upon a report to Congress. On the Bth A. A. Glenn (Dem.) was elected President of the Illinois Senate, on the twenty-ninth ballot, by a vote of 28 to 23 for Mr. Early. Dr. Coleman, of Toledo, Ohio,has been elected Bishop of the newly-formed Episcopal Diocese in Wisconsin. -King Alphonso reached Barcelona on his way to Madrid on the 9th. Representative Bchumaker has told all about that $275,000 check. He had the. check broken up into smaller amounts, and distributed all but SIO,OOO of it to other parties. He gave the greater part to a railroad attorney, Lyman. Elmore, and to Gen. Morgan L. Smith, lately deceased. Mr. Schumakerhad no information to which he could swear positively that any portion of the $275,000 went or was directed to go to any member or officer of the Forty-second Congress and had no information that any clerk or other employe of the House received ttioney. Representative Randall stated before the committee that Representative* Storm, of Pennsylvania, was offered $1 ,000 to vote in favor of the subsidy, which he refused. There were rumors on the 10th that the Cabinet was divided on the Louisiana question, and it was stated that at least three members had tendered their resignations. Gen. Sheridan has made his official report on the troubles at Hew Orleans, in which he insists that the course taken by the military authorities was justifiable and necessary to prevent violence and bloodshed, and that the Conservatives first called on Gen. de Trobriand for his interference. L. A. Wiltz, the Conservative Speaker, has also made a statement, in which he says he did not call on the General for his interference further than to request him to address a few words 'to parties seeking to create a disturbance at the time of his attempting to perfect an organization.

The City Council of New Orleans on the 9th, at the suggestion of the Mayor, adopted a resolution to the effect that the statements of Gen. Bheridan in regard to the condition of society in that city and State, and the insecurity of life and property, were unfounded in fact and an unjustifiable libel. Don Carlos has issued a proclamation declaring that he shall prosecute the war for the recovery of his rights with renewed vigor. His forces sustained a defeat in Valencia on the 10th. The Democrats of New York city held a largely-attended indignation meeting in Cooper Institute on the evening of the 11th, over which 'Mayor Wickham presided. Resolutions denouncing military

interference in State * affairs and condemning Gen. Sheridan’s dispatches were unanimously adopted. J The suit of Tilton es. Beechers* fairly begun on the ’ 11th, Ma Moms counsel for the prosecution, making the opening address to the jury. Dispatches from New Orleans of the 11th say the Republican members of the Louisiana Legislature had made a report concerning the proceedings to that-body on the 4th, which coincides with the official statement made by Gen. Sheridan. The public schools in New Orleans reopened on the 11th with a large attendance. A Republican meeting was held on the evening of the 11th and was largely attended. Resolutions were adopted indorsing the telegrams of Gen. Sheridan, and stating that his representations were only defective in that they did not tell half the story of outrages to

—A I ..Alt M ■ 1 V 1 -2 1 A 1 wmerr rvcp cron cans m uouTmana naa occn subjected in years past. A rumor was . current in Palis on the 12th that tfae Cariists had captured Pampeluna mid that Gen. Moriones, commanding the National troops in the North, had pronounced against King Alphonso. It was also stated that a Spanish Deputy had gathered 500 followers and departed from Madrid to raise the standard of the Republic in the Sierra Moreno. \ ~ ; % ~ Twenty-six _ persons were drowned in the Bay of Biscay through' the foundering of the steamer Cortes. . P. C. Cheney was nominated for Governor of New Hampshire by the He-; publican State Convention which met on-, the 12th, and Chas. F. Powers for Railroad Commissioner. The National Council of Sovereigns of Industry opened its second session in Philadelphia on the 12th. The membership was reported to be 100,000, distributed over twenty States. The Legislature pf Mississippi has adopted reaplutions Indorsing the course of Gen. Sheridan in New Orleans. .King Kalakaua had a public reception in Chicago oh the l£th. • Pinchback was re-elected United States Senator by the Louisiana Legislature on the 12th, in order to silence all question as to his title to a seat in that body. The vote stood: Senate, 18 to 5; House, 48 to 7, William Sharon (Rep.) has been elected UnitedßUtea Senator by the Nevada Legislature. Chas. H. Hardin was inaugurated Governor of Missouri on the 12th. The Illinois State Grange met at Springfield ob the 12th m secret session.