Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1875 — LATEST NEWS. [ARTICLE]

LATEST NEWS.

Prussia Demands the Dismissal of a Papal Nuncio. Carlist Activity and Alphonslst Defeats. The Importation of American Potatoes Prohibited la fiemaey. Return of Hon. W. S. King, of Minnesota, from foreign Barts. Myaterioo* Marder of a German SaloonKeeper a Chicago. Miscellaneous .and General News. THE OLD WORLD. John Mitchel, the lately-elected member from Tipperary, Ireland, is alarmingly ilh According to late Shanghai dispatches all European troops had been withdrawn from Yokohama. Thirty persons were Injured near Litchfield, England, on the 2d by a railway accident. London dispatches of the moaning of the 4th report the wrecking of the steamer Gothenburg, on one of the Forneaux Islands, between Van Dieman’s Land and Australia. She had on board 170 persons, of whom only four were known to be saved. Ths Irish Rifle Association has fixed upon the 29th of June next as the date of the return match between the American and Irish riflemen. According to a St. Petersburg dispatch of the 4th there was great indignation in that city over allegations of Russian misgovernment in Turkestan, contained in the report made by Mr. Schuyler, the United States Charge cP Affaires, and it was said Prince Gortschakoff had demanded his recall. John Mitchel was renominated for Parliament on the 4th.

According to dispatches from Berlin of the sth Bismarck had demanded the dismissal of the Papal Nuncio at Munich, and the cessation of relations between the Vatican and Bavaria. A decree has been issued by the German Government prohibiting the importation of American potatoes and the exportation of horses. \ According to Havana dispatches of the 6th several engagements with the insurgents had occurred, in which the losses on both sides had been about equal. The Spanish troops on Mora River, near Guantanamo, had been recently attacked by insurgents clad in Spanish uniform. The official dispatch from Spanish sources says both sides lost heavily. Lieut.-Gbn. Sir Jamis Hops Grant and Arthur Helps died in London on the 7th. Gen. Grant was sixty-seven years old and Mr. Helps fifty-seven. It is said that the famine in Asia Minor has decimated some districts to the extent of twofifths of their population. United States Minister Cushing, for his Government, has signed the convention between Spain and the United States for the settlement of the Virginias affair. Accordimg to advices from Figueras, on the Spanish frontier, of the Bth, an engagement had taken place between the Carlists and Alphonslsts near Figueras, which lasted six hours and resulted in the substantial defeat of the latter, whose loss was said to be over 300 killed. The Carlisle had also begun the bombardment of Oria. A report was current that Alphonso desired to abdteate in favor of the Duke de Montpensier. The province of Santander had been entered by the Carliete in strong force, and the Government had forwarded a large number of troops from Bilbao to oppoee them. The new French Cabinet under the auspices of M. Buffet has been formed.

THK SKW WORLD. In the Beecher case E. J. Ovington, R. E. Holmes and Mrs. Ovington were called as witnesses for the defense on the 2d. Their testimony was intended principally to reflect on Mr. Tilton’s character. I Accorbing to a Little Rock (Ark.) telegram of the 3d there was general rejoicing throughout the State over the action of Congress relative to affairs in that State. Joint resolutions had been passed by both houses of the State Legislature, thanking Congress and pledging the State Government to see that equal and exact justice is done to all men. .On the night of the 3d, at Memphis, Tenn., two colored men who had purchased tickets for admission to the dress-circle of the theater were refused admission and their money returned to them. The manager, it is said, will contest the constitutionality of the CivilRights law in case suit is brought by the rejected parties. Thb bill for the admission of Colorado as a State, passed by Congress xm the 3d, provides that the election for delegates to frame a State Constitution shall be held under proclamation of the Territorial Governor, to be issued within ninety dteys from the Ist of September, 1875, and thn the Constitution thus framed shall be*submitted to the people in July, 1876. Adjt.-Gbn. Lorenzo Thomas died in Wash ington on the 2d, in the seventy-second year of his age. According to a "Washington Associated Press dispatch of the 4th the President had refused to sign the bill for the equalization of soldiers’bounties. The Force bill was rpad a first and second time in the Senate. Beyond this the Senate took no further action. It was believed that the President would take no further action in the affairs of Arkansas, being influenced by the recent expression of the House against Governmental interference. 8. W. Kellogg has been renominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Second Connecticut District. The Democrats of the First District have nominated Geo. M. Banders. On the 3d, in the Beecher trial, Mr. Ovington was recalled and testified as to the money placed in his hands by Mr. Storrs for the benefit of Mrs. Tilton. He had found on looking ever his books that he had made a mistake, the amount being 11,245 in all. Mrs. Ovington’s evidence was continued, hut nothing of great InntataifDe was elMted. Mrs. Putnam

was called to the stand, and soon after the beginning ot her testimony one of the jurors was taken with a sudden faintness, and the court adjourned. She continued her evidence on the 4th, and testified to and devotion Mrs. Tilton had evinced in her presence for her husband, and said she never had the power of living out her life in opposition to his wishes. Mrs. Tilton had dften made statements to witness which tiie latter did not believe, when endeavoring to hide her husband’s faults. While the witness was giving her testimony the juror who had been taken sick the day before sent word to the Judge that he was again unwell, and the court adjourned to the Bth. Thb third annual convention of the National Butter and Egg Association was lately held In Chicago. G. E. Gooch, of Chicago, was elected President, and Col. R. M. Littler, of Davenport, lowa, Secretary. A resolution was adopted declaring that the term “Western” should be dropped in the market reports, and it should be graded and stand on its merits as butter, without any reference to the locality in which it is made. There was over a foot of snow on a level in St. Louis on the 3d. According to a Nashville (Tenn.) dispatch of the 3d the town of Jasper, in that State, was submerged by a flood, and people were living in the second stories of their houses. The water was four feet deep in the Court-House. Many cattle had been drowned. Thb Eads Jetty bill, as passed by Congress, appropriates 05,250,000 to carry out the enterprise and indicates the Southwestern Pass as the channel. On making his appearance in the United States Senate on the sth Senator Johnson met with quite an ovation. The Pennsylvania Republican State Convention is to be held at Lancaster on the 26th of May. The Democracy will hold their State Convention on the Bth of September, in Erie. The next annual meeting of the National Butter and Egg Convention will be held at Davenport, lowa, the first Wednesday in March, 1876. Thb manager of xhe Public Library Hall in Louisville, Ky., on the night of the sth, refused admission to a colored man who applied for a ticket to the first circle. He was subsequently admitted to Macauley’s Theater, where he took a front seat. At Wilmington, N. C., on the sth, the case of a colored man who had been refused a drink at a saloon was brought before the United States Commissioner, and dismissed on the ground that the Civil-Rights bill does not apply to barrooms. On the sth announcement was made that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company had reduced the passenger fare from Chicago to Baltimore and Washington to eight dollars. The Arkansas Legislature adjourned on the sth. According to Atty .-Gen. Williams, President Grant had told members of the Cabinet, before the Equalization Bounty bill was passed by Congress, that he was opposed to its provisions, and would veto it in case of its passage, as he regarded the measure as involving an extravagant and uncalled-for expenditure of money.

It was reported on the 7th that persons arriving in New York city on the sth for the purpose of serving papers on Congressmanelect Schumaker, relating to the Pacific Mail subsidy, had found that he had just sailed for Europe. Hon. James Buffinton, member of Congress from the First Massachusetts District, died on the morning of the 6th, about one hour after reaching his home at Fall River. Gen. Sheridan left New Orleans on the 6th. Eight inches of snow fell at Cairo, 111., on the 7th, and fifteen inches at Memphis, Tenn. The Indiana Legislature adjourned sine die on the 6th, and the Governor issued a proclamation the same day for a special session to begin on the Qth. The Kansas snd Wisconsin Legislatures also adjourned sine die on the 6th. The bodies of over forty persons who died in St John’s, Newfoundland, during the past winter have been temporarily interred in the snow, which lay in such immense quantities in the cemeteries as to prevent the opening of the graves. Mr. Wheeler received on the Bth from New Orleans his articles of adjustment, signed by forty-four members of the Conservative caucus, an ample number to secure the desired result. He at once notified Gov. Kellogg to forward to the city of New York the papers in the office of the Secretary of State which were used in the contested election cases before the Returning Board in November last. Hon. Godlove 8. Orth has been nominated as Minister to Austria and Hon. Horace Maynard as Minister to Constantinople. Congressman Wm. S. King, of Minnesota, arrived in Washington on the 6th. He stated that he was going to St. Paul to defend himself against the suit of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. • The Tilton-Beecher trial was resumed on the Bth, the sick juror being in attendance. Mrs. Putnam concluded her testimony and was followed by Anna Augusta Moore, who at one time boarded with Mrs. Richards, at the time Mr. and Mrs. Tilton were members of the same household. Her evidence was similar to that of Mrs. Putnam, and mainly referred to Mr. Tilton’s shortcomings as a husband and chureh-member. Mrs. Oakley was next called to the stand, but Mr. Jeffreys became sick again and the court adjourned. A German saloon-keeper named Julius Wilcke was found murdered in his saloon in Chicago about nine o’clock on the morning of the 7th. The murdered man was an inoffensive person, and it is thought the crime was committed to secure the money supposed to be in his possession. OOireJBBSSIONAIM In the Senate, on the 2d, after the pas sage of a number of Pension bills, the Force bill was read * second time and laid over under the rule... .The House bill to equalize the bounties of soldiers wm amended and passed—3o to 30— the Vice-President riving the casting vote in the affirmative... .The Tax and Tariff bill passed as it came from the House—Bo to 29....8i11s were passed—to prevent cruelty to animals in the District of Columbia; amending the act to restore to home stead entnr and to market certain lands in Michigan. ...The report of the Conference Committee on tiie bill to provide for the incorporation and regulation of railread companies in the Territories wm agreed t 0... .Adjourned. In the House, before the conclusion of the all-night thb Sundry Civil Apprtfpria-

tio* MU was passed....On reassembling bills were passed—for the government of the District of Columbia; to protect witnesses summoned to appear before. Congressional committees froni arrest on civil process: giving consent to tto Wisconsin Central Railroad Company to build its road between Stevens Point and Portage City on the line adopted Feb. 10,1875 ...The Senate amendments to toe Poetoffice Appropriation bill were considered—the one reviving the franking privilege in toe case of garden seeds and agricultural reports being concurred in—lß3 to 95—and the amendment allowing members to frank certain public docaments until Dec. 1, 1875, being also agreed to—llß to 65. The amendment fixing toe salary of the New York ''Postmaster at SB,OOO was not concurred 1n....A resolution was adopted rescinding a resolution adopted April 10,1862, censuring Simon Cameron for certain alleged irregular proceedings as Secretary of War at the outbreak of toe rebellion ....The Arkansas question was then taken up and toe resolution reported by the majority of the committee advising no interference with the present condition of affairs adopted—l 49 to 80 ..The Deficiency Appropriation oill (82,496,556) was considered in Committee of the Wh01e.... Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 3d, the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was amended and passed ....Sundrr amendments were made to the River and Harbor Appropriation bill..,.Conference reports were concurred in on the Indian and Postoffice Appropriation bills and on the bill for the government of the army... .The committee reported adversely on the bill to remove toe political disabilities of Raphael Semmes.... A conference was ordered on the Bounty bi 11.... Adjourned. In the House, conference reports were agreed to on the Indian and Poetoffice Approprition bills, the bill in relation to the army, and toe bill regulating railroads in Territories.... The report on the Legislative Appropriation bill was non-concnrred in, and a new conference was ordered.... A conference committee was ordered on the Senate amendments to the Bounty bi 11.... Speaker Blaine was unanimously thanked for the manner in which he had discharged his duties.... The resolution reported by the Pacific Mail Committee of Investigation was adopted.... The resolutions from the Committee of Election declaring that Pinchbeck is not entitled to a seat from Louisiana and that George A. Sheridan is, were adopted—l 23 to 29—and Sheridan was sworn in.... Lawrence, the contestant for Sypher’s seat, was also awarded the place... .The bill admitting Colorado as a State passed—l 64 to 76—and the bill admitting New Mexico was rejected—ls 4to 87—not two-thirds.... The Senate amendments to the House bill in relation .to the navigation of the Mississippi were agreed t0...-The Senate Civil Rights bill was referred to the Judiciary Commit tee.... The bill extending the time for the completion of the St. Croix & Lake Superior Railroad was rejected. ...The bill to set apart a portion of the island of Mackinac for a National Park was passed... .The House was still in session at 2 a. m., on the morning of the 4th. In the Senate, on the 4th, the River and Harbor, toe Deficiency and other appropriation bills were passed, as were also bills—making an appropriation to pay the award of the Southern Claims Commission; for the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers; granting pensions to the heirs of soldiers murdered by guerrillas in Central Missouri in 1861; removing the political disabilities of sundry persons.... A report was made from the Conference Committee on the Bounty bill, stating that the House had finally concurred in the Senate amendments, and it was tabled. Subsequently it was ascertained that the Viee-Presiaent had signed this bill as having passed, and the question was raised that he could not legally do so; since it was tabled....A resolution was adopted thanking the Vice-President for the impartial and courteous manner with which he has presided in the Senate.. .A message was received from the President that he had no further communication to make, and the Senate adjourned sine die. In the House, the conference reports on the Sundry Civil, River and Harbor, Legislative and Deficiency Appropriation bills were agreed t0....8i11s were passed—for the relief of the Terre Haute & Indianapolis Railroad Company; for the coinage of twenty-cent silver coins; authorizing a pontoon wagon bridge at Dubuque ....The Senate amendments to the Southern Claims Appropriation bill were concurred in ....Several private bills were also passed ....A resolution of thanks to the Clerks of the House was adopted....A committee having reported that the President had no farther communication to make to. the House, the Speaker, at the hour of twelve, announced the expiration o the last session of the Forty-third Congress and delivered a short farewell address, and the members dispersed.

The Senate of the Forty-fourth Conress assembled in special session at noon on he sth, Vice-President Wilson in the chair.... The Presidential proclamation was read and the oath administered to the new Senators.... Mr. Morton offered resolutions—declaring Kellogg to be the legal Governor of Louisiana, and committing the Government to his support; declaring Pinchback entitled to a seat in the Senate from Louisiana.... The committee appointed to wait upon the President reported that he would communicate with the Senate on the Bth, and an adjournment to that date was carried. In the Senate, on the Bth, Mr. Morton spoke to his resolution for the admission of Pinchback as Senator from Louisiana.... After a short executive session the Senate adjourned. THE MARKETS. March 8,1875. Now Yobk.— Cotton—l6K®l6%c. Flour—Good to choice, [email protected]; white wheat extra, J5.40@ 6.00. Wheat— No. 2 Chicago, 81.1WJ4; No. 2 Northwestern, [email protected]; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, [email protected]. Rye— Western, 84@95c. Barfry— [email protected]. Corn— B4@Bsc. Oats Western, 67@69c. Pork— New mess, $19.12%@19.25. Lard— Prime steam, 13*4@13%c. Cheese— l2© 16c. Wool—Domestic fleece, 52@65c. Beeves—|[email protected]. Boas— Dressed, Western, $8.62!4© 8.75; live, |6.8TK©7.25. FMp-Uve, 86-00© 7.50. Chicago.— .Boeixa—Choice, >5.75©6.25; good, 85.25©5.65; medium, $4.75©5.00; butchers' stock, 8 3 -50©4.50; stock cattle, «3.00©4.25. Hogs— Live, good to choice, $6.50©7.25. dressed, [email protected]. Sheen— Good to choice, f5-00©6.25. Butter—Cnoice yellow, 30@36c. Eggs Fresh, 35©40c. PorkMess, new, |18.05©18.10. Lard- 113.15©13.20. Cheese— New York Factory, 17@17Kc; Western Factory, 16i4©17c. Flour—White winter extra, >[email protected]; spring extra, [email protected]. Wheat —Spring, No. £ 85K©86c. Com —No. 2, 63M@64J<c. Oats—No. 2. 52M@52Hc. Pye-No. 2, 97@97%c. Barlev—No. 2, |[email protected]. Wool -Tub-washed, 45©58c; fleece, washed, 40© 50c; fleece, unwashed, 27@37c. LumberBint clear, 852.00©55.00; second clear, 846.00© 50.00; Common Boards, S11.00©12.00; Fencing, 812.00©13.00; “A” Shingles, $8.00©3.26; Lath, Cincinnati.— Ffattr—B4.9sos.lo. Wheat— Red, f 1.0701.10. Com—67@6Bc. £ye-|[email protected]. Oafs—s9@62c. Barley -818.b0©18.75. Z,ard-43M@i4c. St. Louis.— Cattle— Fair t* choice, $5.15©5.75. Hogs— Live, [email protected]. Flour—XX Fall, J4.40© 4.50. WAeaf-No. 2 Red FaU, [email protected]!4. Corn -No. 2, 64M065MC. Oats— No. 2, 56H©57c. Bye— No. 1, 99c©|1.00. Barley— No. 2, 21.20 Pork—Mess, [email protected]. Lard-13 ©l3Mc. Milwauk**.— Flour—Spring XX, 84.60©5.00. WAeal—Spring, No. 1,90M@91c; No. 2,86 M ©B7c. Corn—No. 2, 62*4@63c. Cate-No. 2, Rye— No. 1, [email protected]. barley— No. 2, |[email protected]. Cusvblamd.— Wheat— No. 1 Red, 81.10«© 1.11; No. 2 Red, 21.04%©1.05. Com —7l @72c. Oats-No. 1,60@61c. DBTBorr.—WAeat—Extra, |[email protected]. Corn Oats— 69@s9Hc. Dressed Hogs— Tolbdo.— WAeaf—=Amber Mich.,[email protected]; No. 2 red, [email protected]. Com—High Mixed, 69@69Kc. Oats— No. 2, 5@57>4c. Buffalo.—Dmms— [email protected] Hogs— Live, [email protected]. NAecp-Live, [email protected]. East Limbty.— Cattle— Best, M-25®6-75; medium, 85.40@« 1 .75. Hogs— Yorkers, [email protected]; 7 —An Alsatian iron manufacturer of Muhlhouse fame, Nicholas Koechlin, left his city when it was ceded to Germany and established his headquarters in Paris on the score that he could not live side by side with his hated conquerors. He has just died in his adopted city, and the Alsatians there attended en masse his funeral in the Protestant Church. His dying will was that he should be temporarily buried in Switzerland until his remains could be conveyed to his native Alsace whenever it should be recovered by France, if they had to whit a thousand yeaxh.