Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1875 — LATEST NEWS. [ARTICLE]

LATEST NEWS.

An Interesting Budget of Spanish News. Judge Emmons’ Opinion of the CivilEight* Bill. Letter of Gen. Sheridan Concerning the Black Hilto. Passenger Rates to the East Largely Reduced. A Chisago Editor Imprisoned for Contempt. Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc. TUB OLD WOBLU. Paris dispatches of the 24th announce the breaking up of a conspiracy which had for ita object the assassination of Gen. Cabrera, the reensant Carlist chieftain. Don Carloa recently issued a decree calling into the military service all the males in the Navarre Provinces over eighteen year* old. Louis Kossuth was lately defeated in a parliamentary contest in Hungary. Moßßthan 10,000 people attended the funeral of the late John Mitchel, at Newry, Ireland, on the 23d. A destructive fire occurred in Osaka, Japan, on the 7th of February, which burned 1,200 buildings and caused the loss of several lives. On the day before 300 houses were destroyed by fire in Yokohama. A battle has been fought with the Car lists at Huguet, in which they lost 300 and the Alphonsists sixty-eight killed. According to advices from Estella, on the 26th, Gens. Mundera, Saballa and Tristany had united in a protest against Gen. Cabrera’s manifesto In favefr of Alphonso. According to a Melbourne (Australia) dispatch of the 26th twenty Communist prisoners had escaped from New Caledonia, under the leadership of Dr. Rastaaul. A Madrid dispatch of a late date saysAhat on the arrival of Gen. Loma at Zuruguary the Carlists fraternized with the Alphonsists, and fervent demonstrations were made by both armies in favor of peace. Estella dispatches of the 28th say that deputies from the four provinces occupied bv the Carlists had met to consider the demand of Don Carlos for contributions and replied that the country is exhausted, that fresh sacrifices are impossible, and that Don Carlos should procure funds abroad. Madrid dispatches of the same date report that Don Carlos had ordered persons found reading the Cabrera manifesto to be shot. There had recently been additional evidences of fraternization between the Carlists and Alphonsists on the banks of the Orea. A Bantander dispatch states that Don Carlos had left for Ram ales with sixteen battalions and artillery to meet a threatened invasion. Spain had paid 11,000 thalers for the Gustav outrage. A hurricane passed over Yancouver Island on the 24th. At Victoria several vessels were badly injured, trees were uprooted and some of the telegraph lines demolished. The French Government lately denied to the Due de Montpensler a passport to Spain on the ground that in-giving it the Government would be establishing a precedent by which ex-Queen Isabella might be enabled to return to Spain, which was undesirable. Over 100,000 people met in Hyde Park, London, on the 29th nit. to sympathize with and demand justice for the Tichborne Claimant.

THE SEW WORLD. Bessie Turner's cross-examination was concluded on the 24th. She corrected several dates and admitted to having made mistakes in her evidence before the Church Committee. She also reaffirmed her testimony as to -Mr. Tilton’s conduct in his family and toward her. George L. Perkins, of Norwich, Conn., testified that he saw Mr. Beecher in the train on the Boston & Albany Railroad, en route for Boston, on the 4th of June, 1873, the date fixed upon by Mrs. Moulton as the day Mr. Beecher confessed to her. Mr. Geo. S. Sedgwick and Mr. C. C. Higgins, lawyers, testified to having seen Mr. Tilton in the company of Mrs. Wood hull and Miss Claflin in a communistic procession in 1871. John C. South wick testified that Mr. Tilton had denied to him the truth of the Woodhull scandal as far as it related to Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Tilton. On the 25th the testimony of James B. Woodlelgh, formerly in Mrs. Woodhull’s employ, was given. He had often seen Mr. Tilton at the house and also at the business office of Mrs. Woodhull; He was at the office very often in the summer of 1871. The question of the*publication of. the scandal was discussed in witness’ presence; Mr. T. said she ought to publish it, as he could not do it, for they would crush him; he said Plymouth Church would pay SIOO,OOO to have it stopped. Witness had many times seen Mr. Tilton and Mrs. Woodhull sitting together, with their arms around each other. Richard Adams Gray and Lucy Ann Giles (both colored), formerly in the employ .of Mrs. Woodhull, also testified to having seen Mr. Tilton frequently at the Woodhull house, and to having witnessed many demonstrations of affection between Mr. T. and Mrs. W. The witness Gray remembered a conversation between Mr. T. and Mrs. W. about getting Mr. Beecher to preside at Mrs. W.’s Steinway Hall meeting in 1871 ; Mrs. W. said he had better preside or she would make.it very hot for him, and Mr. T. said he (Beecher) would have to and would preside. Several witnesses testified in the Beecher suit on the 29th ult. as to the whereabouts of the defendant on the 2d, 3d and 4th of June, 1873. Mr. Turner and son testified that Mr. Beecher arrived at Peekskill on the afternoon of the -2d early enough to take dinner. Two telegraph operators testified to sending a telegram on the morning of the 2d announcing Mr. Beecher’s intended visit to Peekskill. One witness swore he saw Mr. B. there at that time. Mr. Tilney, a lawyer, swore that he was married in Brooklyn on the evening of June 3by Mr. Beecher. Frederick A. Putnam testified that he saw Mr. Beecher at the depot of the New Haven Railroad on June 4, 1873. John Winslow and Stephen D. White, members of the Plymouth Church Investigating Committee, and H. B, Claflin testified to

the statements made by Mr. Tilton on me evidence against Mr. Beecher, relating to Mr. Tracy’s connection with the case, and to the settlement of the difficulty between Mr. Tilion and Mr. Bowen. The Grand Jury of the District of Columbia have Indicted Whitelaw Reid, of the New York TrCmne, for libeling ex-Gov. Shepherd. The United States Supreme Court has recently decided that dividends and profits earned in the last half erf the year 1870 are subject to the Income tax of per cent Ih his charge to the Memphis Grand Jury on the 22d Judge Emmons, of the United States Circuit Court, instructed them to the effect t-jitti. the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution applies to States only, and that the denial to a negro of the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations and privileges of theaters and inns is a matter that the State Governmentalone controls, and can only be reached by a civil action. A recent Washington dispatch says that the late John Mitchel was in fact a citizen of the United States, as appears from the records in the office of the Clerk” of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. James Brown was hanged at Pottsville, Pa., oh the 24th for the murder, more than three years ago, of Daniel S. Kreamer, his wife, her mother and Annette Kreamer. A special committee report was made in the Rhode Island Legislature on the 24th, relating to the late conflict of authority between the United States Marshal and the State Constables over the wholesale stock of liquors attached by the Marshal and afterward seized by the State Constables because sales were made from the stock in violation of the State law. The committee censure the Providence Chief of Police for aiding the United States Marshal, and recommended the adoption of a resolution requesting the Governor to transmit to the President of the United States a statement of the facts relating to the interference of the United States Marshal for the District of Rhode Island with the State Constables in the discharge of their duty. Gov. Kellogg has issued a call for an extra session of the Louisiana Legislature, to meet on the 14th of April, to carry out the adjustment of political difficulties and for other purposes. * In answer to a telegram from one of the miners who lately came from the Black Hills as to whether he would be permitted to return with reinforcements and provisions, Gen. Ord is reported as saying: “Troops from Fort Laramie and hostile Indians have both gone for the miners. For their sakea I hope the troops will reach them first, as the military orders are simply to bring in the party, confine the leaders, burn their wagons and destroy their outfits.” A National Conference of Representative Workingmen will be held at Cincinnati on the 7th of September. An opinion has been given by the AttorneyGeneral to the effect that the vacant Judgeship in Louisiana caused by the resignation of Judge Durell cannot be filled until the next session of Congress. A New Orleans dispatch of the 26th says Judge Woods had decided that the power to select a District Judge in his circuit to fill the Durell vacancy rested in him.

The Republican State Convention of Rhode Island has nominated: For Governor, Henry Lippett, of Providence; Lieutenant Governor, Henry T. Sissen, of Little Compton; Secretary of State, J. W. Addeman; Attorney-General, Willard Sayles; General Treasurer, Samuel Cork. Gen. Augur reached New Orleans on the 26th, and assumed command of the United States troops stationed there. The Prohibitionists of Michigan have withdrawn the State ticket nominated at Lansing in January last. The reasons which have led to this decision are stated by the Chairman of the State Central Committee as follows: First —The renomination of Judge Graves to the Supreme Court by Democrats and Republicans; Second —The non-political nature of the offices of Justices of the Supreme Court and Regents of the University; Third — The resignation of three of the candidates nominated at the Prohibition State Convention. A body of armed Mexicans attacked several ranches near Corpus Christi, Tex., on the evening of the 26th, and robbed one store, taking several Americans prisoners. After the Ist of May mutilated currency will be redeemed according to the proportion remaining of the bill. The Senatorial excursion party left Washington on the 29th for Mexico. It is composed of the following persons: Senators Cameron, Patterson, Dennis, Anthony, Morton, ex-Senator Chandler, Tom Scott and wife, Wayne McVeigh and wife, Ben Perley Poore, of the Boston Journal , and Miss Poore, Mrs. Senator Morton and ex-Gov. Brown, of Georgia, and wife. The State Department has officially assured the Mexican Minister that it has no political 'significance whatever. According to a Washington dispatch of the 28th instructions had been issued through the War Department to the General commanding in Texas to deal summarily with Mexican raiders. The Rhode Island Democratic State Convention met at Providence on the 27th and nominated Col. R. Cutler, of Warren, for Governor; John B. Pierce for LieutenantGovernor; Charles E. Gorman for AttorneyGeneral, and Philip Rider for General Treasurer. A material reduction of passenger rates to the East over the Michigan Central, Michigan Southern and Pittsburgh & Fort Wayne Roads was announced in the Chicago papers of the 29th, to go into effect April 1 or as soon as the necessary tickets could be printed. The reduction is as follows: To New York, from $22 to sls; to Philadelphia, from sl9 to s£3; to Baltimore and Washington, from sl9 to $9; to Boston, from $27 to SIB.B5 —the tickets to be used within forty-eight hours of their issue. Freight rates were unchanged.

The proprietors of the Chicago St. Elmo restaurant were recently before United States Commissioner Hoyne on a charge of having violated the Civil-Bights law, and were discharged on the ground that a restaurant is not an inn, and hence does not come under the provisions of the law. In the ease of Mrs. Minor, of Missouri, who claimed the right to vote under the Fourteenth Amendment, the Supreme Court has decided that the Constitution of the United States does not confer the right of suffrage upon anyone, and that the Constitutions of the several States which commit that trust to men alone are not thereby void. The court was unanimous in this decision, which was delivered by the Chief-Justice.

G«N. Spinner has resigned ss United States Treasurer, to take effect July L The resignation has been accepted by the President, and the position offered to and accepted by John C. New, Cashier of the First National Bank of Indianapolis, Ind. The California Democratic State Convention is to be held at San Francisco on the 29th of June. The new city directory of St. Louis claims that there was a population of 490.000 in that city on the Ist of last January. Several days ago an article appeared in the Chicago Tima characterizing the Grand Jury in the Criminal Court of Chicago, which had Just found four indictments against Mr. Storey, the editor, for libel, as a disreputable, contemptible and dishonest body. Because of these strictures Judge Williams issued an order that Mr. Storey should show cause why ha should not be punished for contempt. The hearing occurred on the 39th ult. and resulted In Mr. Storey being sentenced to ten days’ confinement in the County JaiL About eleven o’clock on the evening of that day a writ o supersedeas was issued by Judge McAllister, of the Supreme Court, under which Mr. Storey was held in the sum of $2,500 to await the action of the Bupreme Court. James Lice, the San Francisco millionaire, has filed in the Recorder’s office of that city a revocation of the trust deed executed last July conveying his property to trustees for various benevolent purposes. He recites that he wishes to provide for parties having natural claims on him, and, with returning health, to give his personal attention to the execution of his designs. The acts heretofore performed by the trustees are confirmed. W. S. BBIfATE~BXTBA session. In the Senate, on the 23d, the Louisiana resolution was further debated by Messrs. Tr ._» a /Tin. Walker. Thnrman and Christiancy. An'amendment condemning the use of the army in 1872 and military interference in the organization of the Louisiana Legislature was rejectea 22 to 88. A farther amendment was offered that “nothing hereto wntained ls meant to affirm that said Kellogg is % Jure Gov_ xenial ana. ana was also rejecieu 24 to 33. The question recurring on the caucus substitute for die Frelinghuysen. reolutloiy It Bruce, BurnffiLfi’RssflSip /if_ \ jLfrtrriil rvt V iiorton, P&ddock t P&ttcrson, fPen-r. Wadleigh. West, Windom. Nays— Bayard, Bogy, Booth, Caperton, Cockrell, Cooper, Davis, Dennis, Gordon, Johnson (Tenn.), Jones (KaO, Kelley, Kernan, McCreery, Saulsbnry, Stevenson, Thurman, Wallace, wnyie. Withers. The resolution as amended was then adopted—B3 to 24.... Executive session and adjournment. In the Senate, on the 24th, in executive session, the nomination of Don A. Pardee as United States District Judge for Louisiana, vice Durell, resigned, was tabled. ...After the confirmation of other nominations the select com mittpp Annotated to wait on the President re ported thafthat official had ? ofar^ cation to make to the Senate.... After ej°te thanks to the Vice-President and to President pro tem. Ferry the Senate adjourned sine die.

THIS MARKETS. March 29, 1875. New York.— Cotton— l6%©l7c. BJour— Good to choice, [email protected]; white whe»textnL $5.50® 8.00. Wheat —No. 2 Chicago, SU3 No 2 Northwestern, SI.IB©LSO; No. 2 MllwauKee sens®? $10.00©13.00. Hoos — Dressed, Western, *9.2 © 9.soHive, $8.0008.50. Sheep- Live, $6.50©8.00. CHIOAOO.-Bssws-Choxce, gwd; $5.60©5.85; medium, te.25®5.50, butters stock, $3.75©5.00; stock cattle, J3.50®4.75. Hods —Lbre, good to choice, $7.00©8.w). K^new^WK 1 ’ Factory,'l7@t7i4 r c k $4.6006.75; spring extra, $4.25Q4.75. Wheat —String, No. 2, 94%©943£c. Com-no. 4 67%©69%c. Oats— No. 2, 56©56%c. Bye 2, 98%©99c. Barley— Ho. A sl-0501 -06- wool -Tub-washed, 45©Ssc: fi«g* washed, 40Q 50c; fleece, unwash ad, 27©37c. First clear, ;*econdclear, $46-00© 50.00: Common Boards, Fencing, |12.060i3.00; “A” Shingles, $3.0003.25, Lath, JFJfO'-Red, $1.1001.15. C Oats —60©64c. Barley -520.50020.75. Lard— l3X©l4Jic. 4.9 CK 2 Bed Fall, s l ; l2X©l.l3*-C£r« -No. 2, 69©70%c. Oats- -No. 2, 03©64c. Rye-Ko. 1, $1.04®1.05. Barky—No. 2, SI.BO ©1.22%. Pork— Mess, $20.50020.75. Lard— l3l4 ©I3XC. Milwaukee.— XX, $4-6°©^oo--t —Spring, No. 1, $1.01©1.01%, No. i, 94% ©94*gc. Com —No. 2, 68©68%c. Oats -No. -, 53%©54c. jßye—No. 1, $1.0501.06. barley—Ho. 2, $1.07©1.08. . _ Cleveland. — Wheat —No. 1 Red, $1.17%© 1.18: No. 2 Bed, $1.12%01-13. Com - 72© 73c. Oafe-No. 1, 60©61c. Detroit. — Wheat —Extra, sl-20%©1.21. Com —72%©76c. Oats— s9%@6oc. Toledo. — Wheat —Amber Mich-, $1.13%@1.14; No. 2 red, $1.13%©1.14. Com— High Mixed, 71©72c. Oats —No. 2, 59©60c. Buffalo. — Beeves — $5.6007 .00. Hogs-U\e, $7.50©8.00. Sheep —Live, $5.7507.00. East Liberty.— Cattle— Best, $7.00©7.25; medium,ss.7oos-75. Hogs— Yorkere, $7.0007.40; Philadelphia, $8.P0©9.00. Sheep—Best. $6.65© 6.85; medium, $6.2508.40.