Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1876 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

The following is the statement of the condition of the puMto debt Jan. 1: Six per cent. bond* Five per cent, bonds 67u.584.750 Total coin bond. >1.688,000,150 gaSirjrS-..:::::::::: :: Fractional carrency . <4.147,072 Coin certificate. Sl,*#Moo Interest Total debt>2,245,948.986 Caah in TrexeuryCoin >79,884,448 Currency U,117,344 Special deposit, held for the redemption of certificate* of depoalt,aa provided by law 85,175,009 Total in Treasury >128,116,792 Debt less cash in Trea5ury....>2,119,832,194 Increase during December.. 1,M5,0ei t’Decrease since June 30, 1875.8.856,531 Bond* issued to the Pacific Railway Companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding » . .••••••»•••• *64,023,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid... Interest paid by the United States. 28,202,807 Interest repaid by the transportation of mails, etc... 6,668,927 Balance of interest paid by United States 81,538,880

A London dispatch of the 4th says a Ministerial crisis impended at Pesth, in consequence of the demands of Hungary for the forced circulation of Hungarian bank-notes in Austria. According to a Berlin dispatch of the 4 th-the German Government had replied favorably to the American note in relation to intervention in Cuban affairs. Lord Lytton has been appointed Viceroy of India, in place of Lord Northbrook. Sir Anthony Rothschild, of the eminent banking firm, died in London on the 4th. A conspiracy has lately been discovered at Belgrade to make Karageorgewitch the reigning Prince of Bervia, and several important arrests have been made. • A Washington telegram of the 4th says the rumor of a difference of opinion between the President and Secretary Fish concerning Cuban affairs was untrue. The United States currency outstanding on tiie 31st of last month aggregated $416,* 505,437. Thb remaining libel suits of Henry C. Bowen against the Brooklyn Eagle have been withdrawn, the Eagle agreeing to pay, without appeal, the SI,OOO awarded Mr. Bowen in the first suit The New York Legislature organized on the 4th by electing Senator Robertson President of the Senate and Assemblyman Husted Speaker of the House. A wooden box containing shot has been lately found in a warehouse in New* York, which was brought over in the steamer Celtic in October by Thomas, the dynamite fiend, and which he endeavored to have insured at Liverpool as containing $30,000 in gold co’n. Thb Minnesota Legislature organized on the 4th, both houses electing Republican officers —Chas. W. Johnson being reelected Secretary of the Senate and W. R. Kenyon Speaker of the House. An explosion occurred in a coal mine in Staffordshire on the 4th, which caused the death of five persons. A Constantinople dispatch of the sth says Server Pasha, who was sent to Herzegovina at the outbreak of the insurrection, had been recalled. The Brazilian telegraph cable between Lisbon and Madeira is broken. A Vienna dispatch of the sth says Count Andrassay’s project for reform in the insurrectionary districts of Turkey had been assented to by France and Italy. Spain has created a commission to take charge of Spanish products at the Philadelphia Exhibition. „The New Hampshire Republican State Convention met at C mcord on the sth and nominated Person U. Cheney, of Manchester, for Governor, and William A. Pierce, of Portsmouth, for Railroad Commissioner. The resolutions adopted favor specie payments; a revenue tariff with incidental protection; unalterable opposition to the third term; full, fair and free exercise of every right of citizenship for freedmen; a just and forbearing policy toward the South; approve of the present National Administration; favor the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States in relation to school moneys and condemn the action of the Democratic majority in the National House of Representatives in its dealings with maimed Union soldiers formerly in the employ of that body. Hamilton, Richardson & Whitney, dry-goods jobbers of Boston, failed on the sth with liabilities placed at $350,000. Two failures were reported in New York city, one of them being Hunting & Earle, manufacturing jewelers. The Ohio State Agricultural Convention met at Columbus on the Sth. Among the resolutions adopted was one urging Congress to grant a reasonable subsidy to the Centennial Exhibition. A Vienna dispatch of the 6th says the Herzegovinian insurgents had lately suf- . sered a disastrous defeat in the vicinity of Nicisie and Dnga, 600 being killed and many wounded. The Paris Presse of the 6th contains an account of a terrible land-slide which occurred in Isle Reunion on the 11th of December. Sixty-two persons were killed and many injured. A status of Grattan was unveiled in front of the old Parliament House, in Dublin, on the 6th. A Berlin dispatch of the sth says the Prussian War Office have » machine similar to that used by Thomassen. It was offered them by a man from New York, in 1870. for the destruction of the French fleet. ' Rt. Hon. Southern Buckhall EsteppraT. Secretary of the Some Depart-

ment in 1860, died, on his estate near London, on the 6th* f t ,;r v sxsh.‘ Jo«fh Bore, the defaulting City Treasurer of Bnffain returned to that city on the Sth and surrendered himself to tiro authorities. Be was held to bail in bonds of $50,000. William Murray and Frederick Meyer were hanged at Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 6th, for the murder, in November, 1874, of a German farmer named Gottehardt Wahl. ’■ 1"-. - - r ' \ ■ In his late message to the Mississippi Legislature Gov. Ames calls attention to the late State election, recites alleged cases of violence growing out of the political canvass, and says such violence had the effect to intimidate many voters. He attributes this alleged intimidation and trouble to the race question and the efforts of the whites to reassert their old supremacy. He recommends the modification of the fundamental laws of the State so as to bring about a better feeling between the races. The State finance*, are reported as unprecedentedly favorable. Thb Democratic caucus of the Mississippi Legislature on the 6th unanimously nominated X- Q- C. Lamar for United States Senator. A wrestling-match between Maj. Jas. H. McLaughlin, of Detroit, andW. J. Benjamin, of Washington, D. C., for $4 ,000 and the championship of the world, took place in the former city on the evening of the 4th. McLaughlin was victorious. \ Thb next Illinois State Fair-w to be held at Ottawa, beginning Sept. 4.

The Louisiana Democratic State Convention met at New Orleans on the 6th and adopted a series of resolution declaring that “ the usurpation of the Government of the State of Louisiana through the perversion of the functions of the General Government is an evil which weighs heavily on the people of this State, and a constant menace to the perpetuity of representative institutions that the Wheeler adjustment had no reference whatever to the elections of 1872, and was expressly limited to two contested seats in the State Senate and seventeen in the House; that the memorial of the people of Louisiana, praying for relief at the hands of Congress, be again presented to that body; fa vein g a return to specie payment as soon as it can be done without material injury to the interests of the country. A memorial to Congress protesting against the Kellogg Government and declaring that McEnery and Penn are the official heads of the State Government was also adopted. A Constantinople telegram of the 7th says the Grand Vizier had rejected the scheme of foreign mediation, and was reported to have said to the Austrian Ambassador who presented it that the Sublime Porte was able to give the people of the provinces all the necessary guarantees for reform. It was also reported that Montenegro had dispatched troops to the frontier, had negotiated a loan of $1,000,000 and had contracted with an American firm to deliver 10,000 rifles and sixty cannon in March. Charles Buthebs, a cotton-spinner at Oldham, England, failed on tbe 7th for $1,000,000. Easton & Milnß’s banking-house at Fall River, Mass., suspended, on the 7th. On the same day the failure of Philip Stiner, a tea merchant of New York, who had eighteen stores scattered throughout the city, was announced. His liabilities are placed at $138,000; assets $38,000. A little boy who proved to be J ames Blanchard, of Milford, N. H., created considerable excitement at Bt. Albans, Vt., a few days ago by claiming to be the lost Charley Ross. He proved to be a prodigious liar and was taken to his home in Milford on the 7th. Wonderly & Co., lumbermen, of Grand Rapids, Mich., suspended on the 7th, with liabilities of over $200,000.

The Democracy of Texas have nominated: For Governor, Richard Coke; Lieutenant-Governor, B. Hubbard; Presidential Electors, D. G. Giddings and B. H. Epporaon; Attorney-General, H. H. Boone; State Treasurer, J. Dow; ChiefJustice, O. M. Roberts. Frank Scott (colored) was hanged at Memphis, Tenn., on the 7th, for the murder, in December, 1874, of an old negro for ninety cents which the latter owed him. He made a short speech on the gallows, concluding by saying that the cords were cutting his arms, and he would rather be hanging. Bill Williams (also colored) was hanged at Bartlett, Tenn., on the same day, for murder, he denying the crime to the last. At Jackson, Tenn., also on the 7th, Milton McLean was banged for the murder of a man named Pope. . A report that Austria was preparing for war was authoritatively denied on the Bth. While the Prince of Wales and his party were engaged in pig-sticking near Lucknow, India, on the Bth, Lord Carrington had his Collar-bone broken. According to a Madrid telegram of the Bth there had been a heavy fall of snow in the province of Gulpuzcea, which had greatly interfered with military operations. The authorities had lately issued a notice to mariners, warning them not to approach the coast east of Bilbao, on account of the danger from Carlist batteries. The Belgrave cotton-mills at Oldham, England, carrying 50,000 spindles, were burned on the Sth, involving a loss of |250,000. Dr. Strousberg, the bankrupt railway contractor, has been released from imprisonment oh parole. s ■. Near Odessa (Russia) on the Bth a railway train filled with military recruits ran off tfeg track and plunged down a steep

embankment. The before they could be extricated. The number killed was sixty-eight and fifty-four -wseb Injured, some of thesa fatally- - J hl his annual report the Librarian of Congress, Mr. A. R. Spafford, states that there are now in the Congressional Library 593,507 volumes, against 274,159 on the Ist of December, 1874. Mt. Spaffwd again calls attention to the urgent necessity for separate building for the National Library, to prevent overcrowding. A New York telegram of the 9th states that ail the Churches invited by Mrs. Moulton to take part in the mutual council had accepted the invitation. An effort has recently been made by the friends of Edward S. Stokes, imprisoned for the shooting ot Junes Fisk, to procure his pardon, but Gov. Tilden has denied the application. Hon. J. Y. Scammon, former President of the Mechanics’ National Bank, a suspended Chicago institution, and J. S. Reed, his cashier and son-in-law, have been lately indicted by a Chicago Grand Jury on the charge of misappropriating a large amount of the funds ot the bank. In a card dated Washington, Jan- 8, Mr. Scammon emphatically denies the alleged embezzlement. . t An interesting experiment in telegraphy was made in Milwaukee, on the Bth, which demonstrated that, by the use of new instruments, eight messages can be simultaneously transmitted over a single telegraph wire. The discoverer of the new system is Mr. Elisha Gray, of Chicago. A few nights ago some burglars broke into a store in Osborn, Mo., stole a bottle of chloroform, and then proceeded to drug all the inhabitants of the town. They went through both hotels, all the stores and many of the dwelling-houses, securing several thousand dollars, after which they escaped.