Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1875 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

A Madrid telegram of the 7th, dated midnight, says a summary of the message ot President Grant, sent by cable, had caused great excitement in that city, and was the occasion of a hasty meeting of the Cabinet. The streets were crowded and the newspapers had issued extras containing that portion relating to Cuban affairs and the discussion of the question of belligerent righto. A London dispatch of the 7th says the steamer Deutschland had gone ashore on Long Bands, off the coast of Essex, England, during a heavy northeast storm. About fifty of the passengers and crew were supposed to have been drowned. The remainder bad been landed at Harwich. John Q. Bmith, formerly Member of Congress from Ohio, was appointed Commissioner of Indian Affairs on the 7th and accepted the position. The German Up-Town Savings Hank •of New York city suspended ofl the 7th, with liabilities estimated at $830,000. It is said the officers expect to pay at least •eighty cents on the dollar. The London Timet of the 9th, in an editorial on President Grant’s message, says: “ If Spain cannot suppress the Cuban rebels it would be hard to expect the United States to let the work of devastation proceed unchecked out of regard to the nominal sovereignty of Spain. Spain is on trial. The limits of her power to restore •order will be the limits of her righto.” 'The production of coal in the anthracite regions of Pennsylvania is to be suspended from Deo. 18 to Jan. 22, and possibly until the opening of navigation in the spring, on account of an excess of supply. At the Council of the Union League •of America, held in Philadelphia on the ;Bth, a declaration of principles was .-adopted, as follows: That the credit of the Government must be maintained at home and abroad; that such improvements as shall benefit commerce and labor be granted by the Government; that public schools should be fostered and protected from sectarian interference; that church and State shall remain free and independent, and that all citizens of the United States shall he accorded all righto, civil and religious, provided they obey the letter and spirit of the law and support the Government. A Davenport (Iowa) servant-girl named Mary Ann Kinnerly attempted to kindle a fire with kerosene oil on the morning of the 7th, and was terribly burned. A State Convention in Ohio was held at Columbus on the Bth, to consider the vagrant-tramp question. Seventy-eight delegates were present. Resolutions were adopted declaring that the existence in Ohio of tramps has become a growing evil that can only be eradicated by giving them remunerative employment; to this end the plan of establishing work-houses in all cities and towns sufficiently large to maintain them is recommended, and additional legislation by which any district composed of one or more townships may be authorized.to erect such houses, or to form chain-gangs, is to be asked for; that magistrateß.be given authority to arrest all vagrants and, upon conviction, to commit them to the work-houses; that this systetot es work-houses to be effective must extend over the whole State; that the furnishing of free transportation to tramps from one point to another is dis- . approved of; that after work-houses are established private charity to vagrants should 1 entirely cease, and that the proper authorities should be authorized to employ persons committed to the workhouses on the public highways or at other labor outside the work-house. Rev. Dr. McLaren, the new Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Illinois, wag formally consecrated mi the Bth. The ceremonies occurred in Chicago, and were of a solemn and imposing character. The consecration sermon was preached by Bishop “Welles, of Wisconsin. According to a Madrid dispatch of the 9th the Spanish newspapers had variously commented upon President Grant’s mess ige, but all declare that his utterances are no more alarming than heretofore, and do not believe that intervention is intended. Gen. Saballs, according to a Hendaye dispatch of that date, had been sentenced by court-martial to four years’ imprisonment for treason. An explosion of fire-damp in the coalmine at Methley, near Leeds, England, on the 9th, caused the death of six miners. In the French Assembly on the 9th balloting began for the election of the seventy - five Senators who are to hold office for life. Due d’Audiffret Pasqnier, the President of the Assembly, and M. Martel, First Vice-President, were the only ones elected. The Left developed unexpected strength, their vote averaging 325 against 317 east for the candidates of the Right. The Prince of Lippe Detmold died on the 9tlh The principal officers of the Kentucky State Grange, elected at Louisville on the 9th, Were: Master, M. D. Davie; Overseer, ,W. D. Btone; Lecturer, Dr. R. D. Smith; Treasurer, J. W. Clark; Secretary, Eugene Barnes; Executive Committee, F. Gano, J. H. Harris, Richard Waters. At* St-. Louis, on the 9th, the Grand Jury in the United States District Court voted—eighteen to two—to indict Gen. Babcock for conspiracy to defraud the revenue. The jury addressed a letter to ex-Dist.-Atty Patrick and ex-United States Marshal^Newcomb informing them that no evidence had been brought out implicating them in the frauds. They also indited a letter to the President thanking Aim sot the support he had given tothe investigation, and tendering him their esteem and confidence. A dispatch v»i received from Atty.-Gen. Pierre-

pont announcing the removal of ex-Senator Henderson, of counsel for the prosecution, in consequence of an alleged attack upon the President in his address to the jury at the time of Avery’s conviction. Subsequently the revocation of his commission was suspended to allow a copy of his speech to be forwarded to Washington. Great excitement prevailed, and it was reported that all the counsel had determined to stand by Henderson and go out with him if he was -removed. The Military Court of Inquiry demanded by Gen. Babcock met in Chicago on the 9th, organized, and adjourned to await the arrival of the necessary testimony from St. Louis. The committee of the Arkansas Legislature appointed to inquire into United States Senator Dorsey’s election have made a unanimous report that they find no proof to substantiate the charges of bribery and corruption in his election. The report was adopted by the Legislature without a dissentinr vote. A Berlin spscial of the 10th says the negotiations with Turkey by Germany, Austria and Russia contemplate the establishment of perfect equality between Christian and Turk. A Constantinople dispatch of the 10th says an imperial decree had been officially announced reforming and reorganizing the legal tribunals of Turkey. The city of Paris has voted a subscription of $2,000 to the fund for the Centennial statue of Liberty in New York harbor. The British Parliament has been summoned to meet on the Bth of February. The Senate, on the 9th, confirmed the nominations of Messrs. Chandler as Secretary of the Interior, Pierrepont as At-torney-General, New as United States Treasurer, and John Q. Smith as Commissioner of Indian Affairs. The bill lately introduced in the Senate by Mr. Morton respecting the counting of the votes for President and Vice-President is the bill on the same subject which was prepared by the Privileges and Elections Committee and reported to the Senate last February. A riot occurred at Rolling Fork, Miss., on the 10th, between whites and blacks, in which seven negroes, including the leaders, were killed. No whites were hurt. In a letter signed by him as Governor of Louisiana McEnery regrets the action of McMillan in withdrawing his credentials as Senator from that State, and gives it as his opinion that McMillan has seriously erred in the conclusions to which he has arrived. George Reynolds was found guilty of polygamy at Salt Lake on the 10th, and remanded for sentence. The Arkansas Legislature adjourned sine die on the 10th. The schooner Cornelius B. Windiate foundered on Lake Michigan in one of the late storms, and her entire crew of ten men perished. The Kentucky State Grange has adopted resolutions favoring Government aid to the Texas Pacific Railroad.

The indictment against Gen. Babcock and the capias for his arrest reached Chicago on the 10th. A Cabinet meeting was held in Washington on the same day, and the action of the President in the discharge ot Gen. Henderson was sustained. The Military Court of Inquiry in Gen. Babcock’s case met in Chicago, and voted to adjourn from day to day until the result of the St. Louis trial was known. The Opinion If ationale of Lima, Peru, of a late date, says that while repairs were being made on the San Andres Hospital, on the 2d, a wall, on being thrown down, was found to have been hollow, and filled with human remains. - Between 4,000 and 5,000 skeletons were taken out. They appeared to be from 150 to 200 years old, and all had fragments of clothing upon them. They were believed to have been the victims of the Inquisition. A dynamite explosion occurred on the docks at Bremer Haven on the 11th, which caused the death of sixty of the by-stand-ers and four of the passengers of the steamer Mosel, then about to leave for New York. The explosive was in a passenger’s baggage. A Hendaye telegram of the 11th says several Carlist soldiers had lately bee.n frozen to death. The Carlist forces in that region numbered 52,000 men, with 105 pieces of artillery. A Paris dispatch of the 12th says all France was intensely excited over the pending Senatorial election. The Left had so far secured a majority, and their success was thought to mean a disturbance of the present conservative condition of affairs. The Bourse was greatly excited, and the funds had fallen largely. Sir Houston Stewart, Vice-Admiral ot the British navy, is dead. Speaker Kerr was the recipient of a serenade at Willard’s Hotel, in Washington, on the night of the 11th, and responded in a brief speech. The bill recently introduced into the House for the regulation of postage on printed matter provides that on and after June 1, 1876, postage shall be charged on pamphlets, transient newspapers, etc., at the rate of one cent for each two ounces or fraction thereof, and that the postage on all other mailable matter of the third class shall be unchanged. The agricultural report for November shows that the corn crop of 1875 is onefourth larger than that of 1874, and one of the heaviest ever grown In America. The same is true of potatoes, both as regards quality and quantity; while all the tobac-co-growing States show a large increase df product. The newly-appointed Commissioner of Indian Affairs, John Q. Smith, has taken

charge of the Indian Bateau in Washington. The Republican National Committee will meet in Washington on the 13th of January for the purpose of determining upon the time and place for holding the next Republican National Nominating Convention. William Delaney was recently hanged in New York for the murder, in August last, of Capt. Lawrence, on board the schooner Cow Boy. A. number of Methodist ministers, at a meeting in Boston a few days ago, under the lead of Bishop Haven, adopted a resolution favoring the renomination of President Grant “ as a measure of public safety.” Several Methodist ministers at Salt Lake City, Utah, at a recent meeting, protested against this action on the part of their Boston brethren, and passed a resolution denouncing the President for his action toward that Territory. The ice was ten inches thick in some portions ot the Erie Canal on the 10th. The Moody and Sankey revival meetings in Philadelphia on the 12th were crowded. At the women’s meeting in the afternoon 11,000 persons were present, and fully 300 visited the inquiry-rooms. The jury in the case of Burbach and Reynolds, Milwaukee whisky-rectifiers, brought in a verdiot of guilty on the evening of the llth. Gen. Babcock gave bail at Chicago in the sum of SIO,OOO, on the llth, for his appearance for trial before the United States District Court at St. Louis. Judge Bangs, of Lacon, 111., has been appointed to succeed J. D. Ward, of Chicago, as United States District-Attor-ney for the Northern District of Illinois. In his late message to the California Legislature Gov. Irwin urged that the State endeavor to induce such a modification of the treaty between the United States and China as will restrict Chinese immigration. James O. Broadhead, a prominent Democratic lawyer of St. Louis, has been appointed to succeed Gen. Henderson as an assistant in the whisky trials at St. Louis. He accepted the position on the llth.