Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1875 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

A Republican delegation from Mississippi called upon the Attorney-General at Washington, on the 15th, to explain the omditMM of affitire if that State. They declared that, owing to the White League organizations Mississippi Republican voters were not able to exercise their political fights. They claimed that there was always danger of serious difficulties unless their State Government, which was utterly unable to them protection, should have assistance from the General Government The Attorney-General advised the delegation to return to Mississippi and confer further with the Governor and ascertain wha they could do in their own behalf. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs read a statement before the Red Cloud Commission in Washington on the 15th, in which he denied the charges made against him by Prof. Marsh. A confidence-man, calling himself G. W. Benton, .was arrested at Muscatine, lowa, on the 15th, for having sought to defraud by inserting an advertisement in the Chicago Tribune for a Congressman’s clerk, offering $2,000 and Expenses. His plan was to reply to each applicant to send five dollars to defray expenses of advertising, telegraphing, etc. He had received a large number of letters in answer to the advertisement. At a State Temperance Convention held at Janesville, Wis., on the 15th the following State ticket was placed in nomination : Governor, H. C. Tilton; Lieuten-ant-Governor, D. W. Gilfillan; Secretary of State, H. W. Brown; State Treasurer, D. W. Ball; Attorney-General, William Monroe. The Nebraska Republican State Convention which met at Omaha on the 15th nominated George B. Lake, T. F. Gantt and Samuel Maxwell for Judges of the Supreme Court. Bev. W. E. McLaren, of Cleveland, Ohio, was, on the 15th, elected Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Illinois, receiving thirty-nine out of sixty clerical, and fifty-five out df fifty-eight lay votes on the second ballot The Rev. John Henry Hobart Brown, of Cohoes, N. Y., was elected Bishop of the Diocese of Fond du Lac on the 15th. According to Madrid telegrams of the 16th the Carlist town of Oyarzun, together with the Governor and his subordinate officers, had been captured by the National forces. Belgrade papers of the 16th complain that Turkey had again violated Servian territory. The latter’s armament was continuing.

In a letter to Gov. Ames, of Mississippi, published on the 16th, Atty .-Gen. Pierrepont quotes from a dispatch he had received from the President, in which the latter says: “ The whole public are tired out with these annual outbreaks in the South, and a great many are ready now to condemn any interference on the part of the Government. I heartily wish that peace and good order may be restored without issuing the proclamation; but if they are not, the proclamation must be issued; but if it is, I shall instruct the commander of the forces to have no childish play. If there is a necessity for military interference, there is justice in such interference as will deter the evildoers.” The Attorney-General then suggests that Goy. Ames exhaust his own resources to restore order before receiving Government aid, which can be given him when necessary by the troops now in the State.

The ninth reunion of the society of the Grand Army of the Cumberland occurred at Utica, N. Y., on the 15th. Senator Conkling, Gen. Sherman and Col. George J. Waterman delivered lengthy and eloquent orations. President Grant, Gens. Hooker and Slocum and ex-Gov. Seymour weie present and made brief speeches. Gea. P. H. Sheridan was chosen Presided Of the society for the ensuing year; Gen. H. M. Cist, Corresponding Secretary; Col. John W. Steele, Recording Secretary, and Gen. J. S. Fullerton, Treasurer. The next meeting will be held at Philadelphia J sly'Saad 7,1876. Dist.-Atty. Britton, of Brooklyn, and the Rev. H. W. Beecher have expressed a willingness to enter a nolle prosequi in the libel suit of the latter against Frank D. Moulton, but Mr. M. emphatically demands a trial under the indictment pending against him. Ex-Senator Carl Schurz reached New York on the 14th from Europe. Gen. Plaisted (Rep.) has been elected to Congress from the Fourth Maine District to succeed Samuel F. Hersey, deceased, by about 1,000 majority.

In a Papal Consistory at Rome on the 17th the Pope announced the creation ot seven additional Cardinals and seven Bishops and Archbishops, none of whom were Americans. The ring and title were conferred on Cardinal McCloskey. The Carlist Committee of London published a report on the morning of the 18th, from Hendaye, that the Alphonsists under Tarda had murdered several Carlists in cpld blood in the Aran Valley. The New York State Democratic Convention met at Syracuse on the 16th and 17th. The platform declares that “a speedy return to specie payment is demanded alike by the highest consideration of commercial morality and honest Government,” and reaffirms the declaration of principles adopted by the State Convention of last year. The following State ticket was placed in nomination: Secretary of State, John Bigelow; Comptroller, Lucius Robinson; Attorney-Gen-eral, Charles S. Fairchild • State Treasurer, Charles N. Ross; State Engineer, John D. Van Buren; Canal Commissioner, Christopher H. Wolrath; State Prison Inspector, Rodney R, Crowley.

Rev. Henry War* Beecher has declined the proposed public reception at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. A terrible norther prevailed in Texas on the 16th. - A special of the 17th says the city of Galveston was mainly under water, and that in the’ principal streets it was frbm three to five feet desps.| The Santa Fe Railroad bridge across a portion of the bay had been swept away and thirty persons employed the . Government works had been drowned. The Nebraska Democratic State Convention met at -Omaha on the, 17th and nominated E. A. Thomas for Judge of the Supreme Court. The resolutions adopted declare in favor of a sound currency in coin or its equivalent The election in Orange County, N.C., to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Mr. Graham, has resulted in the election of the Democratic candidate (Patterson), by 600 majority, giving the Democrats two majority in the convention. In the Bill of Rights lately adopted by the Alabama Constitutional Convention, is a section which reads as follows: “ The people of this State accept as final and. established the fact that from tie Federal Union there can be nd secession of any State.” . . of the fast mail trains over the New York* Central and Lake Shore Roads reached Chicago on the morning of the 17th, in a trifle over twenty-six hours from New York city. Constantinople dispatches of the 19th say that latest advices state that the European Consulshad despaired of bringing about negotiations between the Bosnian insurgents and the Turkish Commissioner. They were more hopeful of the pacification of Herzegovina. A. Vienna dispatch of the 19th says an insurrection had broken out at Tiskovae. The Turkish, guard-house had been burned and the garrison fled. A Constantinople dispatch of the same date says a telegram had been received from Mostar announcing the defeat of a large force of insurgents near Vishegrad. At River du Loup, in Canada, on the 18th, snow fell to the depth of twelve inches.

Benjamin B. Halleck, charged with stealing $47,000 from the United States Treasury, waived an examination on the 17th, and was sent to jail in default of S4O, 000 bail. Theodore W. Brown, accused of the same theft, was examined on the same day and also remanded. Congressman White, of Alabama, has been appointed an Associate Justice for Utah. The Secretary of the Interior was be fore the Red Cloud Investigating Commission on the 17th, and flatly denied the damaging statements made by Messrs. Marsh and Welsh. A Boston dispatch of the 18th says that Postmaster Bort, of that city, had been removed from office, and Edward C. Tobey appointed as his successor. The news from Galveston, Tex., of the 19th was to the effect that the damage occasioned by the storm in that city had been over-estimated. But few lives were lost, and the property destroyed would not exceed $200,000. N. B. Judd, Collector of Customs at Chicago, has resigned his office, to take effect Oct 1. Santa Fe dispatches of the 19th say tremendous storms had prevailed throughout New Mexico during the preceding ten days. The town of Las Cruces had been nearly destroyed by the bursting of a water-apout Great damage had been done to the crops.