Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1875 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Gen. Moriones is said to have succeeded in relieving Pampeluna. The Pope is reported to have written to Don Carles advising him to reconsider his determination to continue the war in Spain. A Carlist defeat with the capture of! the Carlist Gen. Agana was reported on the 3d. The Marquis of Bartington has been elected Liberal leader in the British Parliament. i The Senate has rejected the Canadian reciprocity treaty. * Some of toe large manufacturing establishments of Fall River, Mass., have recently been closed, in consequence of a disagreement bn the question of wages. The National Grange met at Charleston, 8. C., on the 3d, Grand Master Adams presiding. The officers and about sixty delegates were present. Hon. Angus Cameron, of La Crosse, was elected United Btates Senator from Wisconsin on toe 3d. Mr. Cameron is said to be an Anti-Monopoly Republican, and was nominated on a platform including hard money, tariff for revenue only, and the supremacy of the civil authority in time of peace. A Republican State Convention to nominate two Justices of toe Supreme Court and two Regents of the State University has been called to meet at Jackson, Mich., on the 8d of March. King Kalakaua sailed from San Francisco sos Honolulu on the 3d. The Khedive has lately annexed Darfour to Egypt Senator Buckingham, of Connecticut, died at his residence in Norwich on the night of the 4th, aged seventy years. Representative Hersey, of Maine, member of the present Congress and memberelect of the next, died on the 4th, at Bangor, aged sixty-two years. Rev. James De Koven, D. D., President of Racine College, Wis., was elected Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Illinois on the 4th. - Taylor Hall, part of the Episcopal college at Racine, Wls., was burned early on the morning of the 4tb. Loss about $60,000; insurance $33,000. Don Carlos has issued a counter proclamation to that recently issued by King Alphonso. He declares he will issue his protest from the month of his cannon. There was fighting on the 7th near Estella, in which eight Carlist battalions are reported to have been worsted. A Mexican mob recently attacked a Protestant church at Acapulco. Four Mexicans and one American were killed and eleven wounded. Tsae Hen, son of Prince Chien, has been proclaimed Emperor of China. The British Parliament was opened on the 6th by a speech from the throne. The jury in the libel suit of W. H. Kemble against the New York Sttn failed to agree. The New Lebanon (N. Y.) Shaker settlement was very badly damaged by fire on the 6th. One of the Judges of the Cook County Circuit Court has lately declared toe law requiring ballots to be numbered to be unconstitutional. a bin to abolish capital punishment has been defeated in the Ohio House of Representatives by a vote of 42 to 44. A caucus of the Conservative members of the Louisiana Legislature was held on the night of the sth, at which a proposition was adopted—Bß to 27—favoring as a proposed compromise that the Conservatives should be allowed a majority of about ten in the House, and that the past action of the Kellogg Government should not be inquired into. After the vote Speaker Wilts, it it said, tendered his resignation, and Gov. McEnery, who was presents by courtesy, said by this action of toe caucus it waa evident to him that it eras time to lower the Democratic banner,Hud he therefore wished to retire. At * mass meeting held on the evening of the 6th, addressed by McEnery, Wtitz and others, resolutions were adopted denouncing the proposed compromise in strong terms, and declaring that nothing less than the reinstallment of the legally-declared Legislature as it stood on the 4th of January would be agreed to. The messenger of the House Sergeant-at-Arms has discovered W. S. King near Compton, Canada, and served him with a subpoena to appear and testify in relation to the Pacific Mail subsidy business. J. J. Routt, Second Assistant Postmas-ter-General, has been confirmed as Governor of Colorado. The President has signed the Little Tartifbffl: The following message from the President was presented to the Senate on the Bth: To the Senate of the United States: Herewith I have the honor to eend, in accordance with the resolution of the Senate of the 3d inat., AIT information in my possession not heretofore tarnished relating to affairs in the State of Arkansas. I will venture to express the opinion teat all tee testimeny shows that la the election of 187» Joseph Brooks was lawfully elected Governor of that State; that he has been unlawfully deprived of the possession of his office since teat time; that la 1874 the Constitution of the State was hy violence, intimidation and revolutionary proceedings overthrown and a new Consatatton^ and a ceedings. if permitted to stand, practically ignore all tbeVKbta of minorities in all States. Also, what la there to prevent each of the States recently readmitted to Federal "Stations on certain conditions from changing their Constitutions and violating their pledges if this action in Arkansas is acquiesced in 1 T respectfully submit whether a precedent so dangerous to the stability of B tale Government, tr not es the National Government also, should be recognised by Coogreea. I eameetly ask that Congress will take deffnite action in this matter, to relieve the Executive from active upon questions which should be decided by the legislative branch of tee Government.

U. S. GRANT.

Bxseuttvs If union, Feb. 8, 1875.

The eastern-bound express train on the Missouri Pacific Railroad was thrown from the track on the 7th, near Osage River bridge, by a broken rail. The sleeping-car and toe passenger" coach ware badly wrecked, and twenty per-" sons were more or less seriously injured, one girl it was thought fatally. The Congressional Committee on Louisiana Affairs concluded their investigation on the Bth, and adjourned to meet in Washington. The Spanish army under Alphonso have recently received a serious check, losing, according to Carlist accounts, 7,000 men in killed, wonhded and prisoners. The “official” account admits a loss of 500 and say that military operations in the direction of Estella are suspended for the present. The Carlist chief Menfieri was recently shot for high treason by order of Don Carlos. The Bishop of Strasborg recently issued a pastoral letter, in which he declared the church to be persecuted. The German authorities seized the copies and forbade the promulgation of the document. i . - Whiting, the man who, according to Irwin’s testimony, received a bribe of s6<koOO to secure the passage of the Pacific Mail subsidy, has been found in Canada, and subpoenaed to give his testimony before the House Committee of Ways and Means.

The first train, consisting of three gravel-cars and a box-car laden with 100 passengers, passed through the Hoosae Tunnel on the 9th. The passage was made in thirty-five minutes. Senator Buckingham’s funeral took place at Norwich, Conn., on the 9th. Hon. W. W. Eaton, Senator-elect, has been appointed to fill the vacancy in the Senate occasioned hy hfo deato. At its recent session the National Grange adopted resolutions declaring the present Patent laws oppressive and illiberal, and asking Congress to so amend them as to allow any person to use or manufacture any patented article on the payment of a reasonable royalty. It-was also resolved to lend to each State Grange $3.50 for each subordinate Grange in the State. MardiGras celebrations occurred on the 9th at Louisville, Ky., Memphis, Tenn., Little Rock, Ark., Terre Haute, Ind., and Fort Madison, low*. The Indiana State Board of Agriculture have decided to hold an exposition at Indianapolis this year, to begin Sept. 9 and continue twenty days.