Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1876 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

A Vienna telegram of the 25th says Turkey had notified the European powers that she should occupy Montenegro if she did not cease giving aid to Turkey's rebellious subjects. According to Madrid dispatches of the 25tb, 400 deputies had been elected to the Cortes. Of these thirty were supporters of Bagasta, ten Clericals, one Cantonalist, one-Moderate Republican (Benor Castelar) and 304 Ministerialists. A simultaneous attack had been made upon the Carlist positions in the provinces of Alava, Biscay and Gulpuzcoa. Dispatches of the 25th say that a commercial and financial crisis existed at Riga, in Russia. Mrs. Mackenzie, whose elopement from Montreal with young Brydges occurred recently, was the wife of Henry Mackenzie, a wealthy ship-owner—not BFrWigfi‘?Rack®ffitie7 M first Hu ported. On the 25th President Grant replied to the resolution of the House of Representatives, adopted on the 22d, that no correspondence had yet taken place with any European Government except Spain in relation to Cuban intervention. The correspondence recently transmitted to the House shows that our Ministers were instructed to read the letter addressed to, Mr. Cushing to the Governments to which they were respectively accredited. R«v. B. C. Bartlett, of Chicago, in a late interview denied that an investigating committee of Congregationalists had been called to investigate the conduct of Mr. Beecher and Plymouth Church, but said the Congregational brethren would not rest until the matte? had been thoroughly sifted*by a council, and that steps to this end would prob&bly be speedily taken. In the case pf on , trial at Indianapolis for alleged complicity in the whisky frauds, the jury 'on the 25th returned a verdict of acquittal. It having been discovered that the election of United States Senator by the lowa Legislature, on the 18th, was held one week too soon, a second election was held on the 25th, which resulted as before, in the choice of Gov. Kirkwood. According to a recent Bismarck telegram, a party of miners had reached that place from the Black Hills. They report 1,200 miners in the hills, all ot whom were said to be meeting with excellent success. The following was the vote in detail in the House of Representatives on the passage of the Centennial Appropriation bill;

Yx*s—Adams, Bagby, Baker (N. Y.), Ballou, Bank*, Banning, Barnum, Ba**, Blaine, Blair, Bliss, Bradv, Brown (Kan.), Burleigh, Cason,' Caswell, Chapin, Chittenden. Clymer, Crapo, Crounse. Cutler, Danford, Darrall, Davy, Dennison, Dobbins, Duneell, Kames, Egbert, Fills, Farwell, Forney, Fost r, Freeman, Frost, Frye, Garfield, Gause, Gibson, Hale, Hancock, Haralson, Hanlenbergb, Barrie (Mass). Harrison, Hathorn, Hewitt (N. Y.), Hill, Hoar, Hoge, Hopki< s, Hubbell. Hnnter, Hurlbut, Hyman, Jencks, Jones (Ky.), Kasson, Kelley, Kotehum, King, Lamar, Landers (Conn.), Lane, Lapham, Lawrence, Leavenworth, Levy, "Liittrel, Mackay (8. C.), Mackey (Pa). Magoon, Marsh. McDougall, McCrary, MeDill, Mead, Miller, Money. Monroe, Morey. Morgan. Mutchler, Nash, Norton, O’Brien, Oliver, O’Neill, Page, Phillips (Kan.), Pierce, Piper, Plaisted, Platt, Powell, Pratt, Pnrm in, Rainey, Randall. Reagan, Reilly. Rftbblns (Pa.), Robbins. (N. C.), Robert , Ross (N, J J, Rose (Pa.). Sampson, bchlelcker, Schumaker, Seclye, Shmicksori, Siemons, 'malls, Smith (Pa.), Strait, Stowell, Swan, Tarbox, Teesc, Thompson, Throckmorton, Townsend (N. Y.), Townsend (Pa.), Von Voorhees, Waddell, WalIsce (S.’C,), Wallace (Pa.), Walls, Ward, Warren, .•11b (Mo.). Wells (Miss.), Wheeler, Whitehouse, ' ■ lilting, Wiggins, Williams (N. Y.), A. 8. Williams (Mich.), Williams (Wls.), Wilshire. Wood (Pa.), Wood (N. Y.), Woodburn. Woodworth, Voting—l4B. Navs.—Ainsworth, Anderson, Ashe, Atkins, Bagley, J- H.. Bagley, G A , Baker (Ind J, Beebe, Ball, Blackburn, Bland, Blount, Boone. Brad'ord, Bright, Brown (Ky.) Buckner, Burchard (Ill.), Burchard (Wls.), abeil, Caldwell ( via.), Caldwell (Tenn.), Campbell,Candler.Cannon, Cate, Caulfield, Clark (Ky.), Clark (Mo.), Cochrane, Collins, Conger, Cook, Cowan. Cox, Culberson, Davis, DeBolt, Dtbrvli, Douda'S, Durham, Eden, Evans, Faulkner. Felton, Fort, Franklin, Fuller, Glover, Goode, Goodwin, Gunter, Hamilton (Ind.), Harris (()*.), Barris (Va), Hartridge, Hartsell, Hatcher, Hunton, Hurd, Jones (N. H.). Joyce, Kehr, Kimball. Kuott, Landers (Ind.), Lewis, Lord, Lynde, McFarland, McMahofi, Mete* f, Milliken, Mills, Morrison, Neal, New, Phelps, Phillips (Mo.), Poppleton, Potter. Rea, Rice, Riddle, Robinson, Rusk, bavage, Saylor, Scales, Shcakly, Singleton, Smith tGa.), Southard, Sparks, Springer, Stenrr, Stevenson, Stone,. Terry, Thomas, Thornrgh, Tucker, Tufts, Turney, Vance (Ohio), y ance (N. C,). Waldron, Walker (Va.), Walling, Walsh, Whitthorn, Wlke, Wlllar-1, A. S., Willlame (Del.), Williams (Ind), Williams, W. B. (Mich ), Willis, Wilson (W. Va.), Wilson (Iowa), Yeates- ibO. Boston dispatches of the 25th say that E. D. Winslow, a well-known journalist of that city, had been detected in heavy frauds, having obtained over SIOO,OOO on forged paper, and that he had absconded.' On Ute 26th a telegram was received from London saying that the Canadian Government had been notified that the clause of the bill creating the Supreme Court of the Dominion which forbids an appeal to the Privy Council of England, must be repealed. The London Timet, in a late financial article, declares that the direct cable had repeatedly been cut by malicious parties, and that the knowledge of thig lawlessness had been used for stock-jobbing purposes. A San Sebastian dispatch of the 26th says the Royalist troops had carried several important positions between Hemani The new International Railway station at Boulogne was burned on the night of tlie 25th. , ' ■ A Berlin dispatch of the 26th says the insurgent leaders in Herzegovina had announced their rejection of all proposals for peace, and declared their intention to prosecute the war against Turkey vigorously. A Vienna dispatch of the 26th says the Austrian Foreign office had intimated to Mr. Orth, the United States Minister, its desire to havoa copy of Secretary Fish’s note to Mr. Cushing. Mr. Orth telegraphed to Washington and asked for instructions, but the American Government had declined to allow a copy to be givtn. A nitroglycerine explosion occurred ata factory in North Adams, Mass., on the 20th and two workmen ware kilted.

Rev. John Russell, of Detroit, Secretary of the National Prohibition Committee, has issued a call for a convention to Ixj hold at Cleveland, May 17, for the nomination of President and Vice-PreeL dent of the.Uniled State to bo entitled to two delegates for every member it sends to Congress. Two men named Dawson and Estep, imprisoned at Charleston, W. Va., for the murder of Lee, wore hanged by a mob on the 251 h. After they were taken from the jail, another prisoner named Hines, who had killed a colored man' named Dooley, was given up to a number of colored citizens, who proceeded with him to the woods and there lynched him by hanging. Among the parties Indicted tor conspiring to defraud the Government out of the whisky tax by the Grand Jury of the United States District Court in Chicago on the 20th, were A. C. Easing and Jacob Rehm.

“A GaLveston, Tmm, report of the 26th says that a revolution had been started in the northern and central portions of Mexico, near the Rio Granda, and that Gen. Hererra had pronounced for the movement, and surprised the authorities at Parras. T»» Kansas Republican State Convention to select delegates to the National Convention is to be held a) Topeka on the 24th of May. According to a Vienni special of the 27th committees had beed formed in several Servian cities, -including Belgrade, having for their avowed object the dethronement of PrincaMilon. A dispatch from dologne on the 27th says the Bavarian Minister of War had been admonished by the Berlin Government to discontinue f th J exemption from conscription heretofore aqcorded to priests and theological students. The London Daily News of the 27th says that writs had been served on Gen. .Schenck, the American Minister, Albert Grant and other promoters of the Emma Mining Company. The Secretary of the Treasury on the 27th ordered the destruction of $554,080 in greenbacks, that amount being eighty per cent, of the new national bank currency issued during the month. This leaves the outstanding greenback circulation $371,273,140. The eighth annual convention of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association met in Washington on the 27th, Mrs. M. J. Gage presiding. Rev. Olympia Brown made the opening prayer and Fred Douglass delivered a speech in favor of woman suffrage. ‘According to’a’ Washington dispatch of the 26th Senator Pattenon, of South Carolina, had been advised that the Secretary of State had issued certificates to Moses and Whipper as Circuit Judges of that State, and that they would be sworn in under this certificate at the proper time. These are the persons whom Gov. Chamberlain declined to commission after their election by the Legislature. The Northampton (Mass.) National Bank was robbed by burglare on the night of the 25th, and securities worth over $600,000 were carried off. The bank officers have offered a reward of $25,000 for the return of the property and the capture of the thieves.

A number of the parties indicted in Milwaukee for whisky frauds withdrew their pleas of not guilty, on the 26th, and then plead guilty to the charges. A fight is reported to have occurred between United States troops and Apache Jndians, about fifty miles southwest of Santa Fe, N. M., on the 17th of January. The troops were attacked by about 200 Indians. After fighting nearly half a day they managed to get away with, the loss of one. man and.three badly wounded. At least twenty Indians were slain.

According to the official Turkish account of the engagement on the road between Trebigne and Ragusa, the insurgents, numbering* from 7,000 to 10,000 men, were defeated by about 8,000 Turks, after a five hours’ battle. ~ The British Government has ordered a steamer to proceed to the station at Loanda, on the west coast of Africa, and bring home Lieut Cameron and his party, who have recently made the transit of the African continent. A Berlin dispatch of the sSth says great agitation prevailed in Posen over the proposed law to make the German language compulsory in the public offices and the courts of law, and serious disturbances were feared. A Buda (Pesth) special of the 28th announces the decease of M. Desk the distinguished Hungarian statesman. At a consistory held in Rome on the 28th, the Pope nominated twenty-two additional Bishops. A, In the Ontario Legislature, lately, the bill giving women a right to vote at municipal elections was defeated by a small majority. At a meeting of the National Democratic Executive Committee in Washington, on. the evening of tie 28th, Senator Randolph was chosen Vtse-Chalnnan, W. H. Barnum, of Connectcut, Treasurer, and A. D. Banks, of Missssippi, Resident Secretary. Hon. Henry H. Starkweather, of Connecticut, member of the National House of Representatives died in Washington on the morning of the 28th, of pneumonia. He was near!; fifty years of age. 2/ ' According to a Springflell (Mass.) dispatch of the 28th it was belltved that the loss by the Northampton tank robbery would be over $1,006,000, nearly one-half of which is negotiable. - - A At the annual meeting of tte Nftional Poultry Association, held in Chicago on them.Edwwl M. Teell, < that ci*,

was chosen President, and Charles P. Willard, also of .Chicago, Secretaty and Treasurer, for the ensuing year. The next exhibition of the Association will bo held in Chicago from Feb. 3 to Feb. 10, 1877. Four desperadoes, formerly employed by.the Lake Shore Railroad, L. H. Hartwell. Charles and H. Dwight and William Emery, alias “ Bophuo,” boarded the express train, bound East, on the Lake Shore Road, near Toledo, Ohio, on the night of the 20th, with the intention of robbing the United States Express Company’s safe of its money packages. They wei*e captured while in the very act by Toledo police officers and United States detectives, who, getting wind of their intention, Were on board ready for them. - They were taken to Toledo and lodged in Jail on the morning of the 27th. The express messenger had in hia charge in the car $150,000 in currency =Mhl’'»l6,Ws4r ImlliiM* Madrid telegrams of the 29th ult. say that the Carlists had abandoned the bombardment of Ban Sebastian and removed their siege artillery. The Spanish Bishops had ordered that the bodies of all persons who died prior to Feb. 9, 1875, and who were only married civilly, be exhumed and removed from consecrated burial places. A Rasusa telegram of the 29th ult. says the insurgents were retreating, pursued by the Turkish troops. They had burned nine viljpges. AVittobia (Spain) dispatch of the 30th ult. announces the capture of Aregria by Gen. Quesada. The Senatorial elections were held by the electoral colleges throughout France

on the 80th ult. Returns from all but two districts show the following results: Monarchists, 65; pure Bonapartists, 12; Republicans, 93; Monarchists and Imperialists, 45. Buffet, Minister of Interior and Chief vs the Cabinet, and Dufaure, Minister of Justice, are among the defeated. The St. Petersburg (Russia) Gazette of the 80th ult. complains that American ships have for a long time been assuming fishing privileges to which they are not entitled in the Ochotsk Bea. The Union Republican Congressional Committee, as agreed upon in caucus on the night of the 29th ult., is as follows: Alabama, Representative Chas. Haye; Arkansas, Senator S. W. Dorsey; California, 8 nator A. A. Sargent; Florida, Senator B. Conover; Illinois, Senator John A. Logan; Indiana, Representative M. C. Hunter; lowa, Representative Jaa. Wilson; Kansas, Representative W. A. Phillips; 'Kentucky, Representative John D. White; Louisiana, Senator J. R. Meat; Maine, Representative Eugene Bale; Massachusetts, Representative Henry LfTierce; Michigan, Representative Jay A. Hubbell; Minnesota, Representative H. B. Representative Wm. Woodburn; New Hampshire, Senator A. H. Cragin; New Jersey, Representative C. H. Sinnickson; New York, Representative Tboe. C. Platt; North Carolina, Representative John A. Hyman; Ohio, Representative Chas. Foster; Oregon, Senator John H. Mitchell; Pennsylvania. Senator Simon Cameron; Rhode Island, Representative L. W. Ballou; Sooth Carolina, Representative A. 8. Wallace; Tennessee, Representative Jacob M. Thornburgh; Texas, Seiator Morgan Hamilton; Vermont, Representative C. 11. Joyce: Virginia, Representative Wm. H. H. Stowell; Wisconsin, Representative J. M. Rusk; Idaho, Delegate Theo. W. Bennett; Dakota, Delegate J. P. Kidder; New Mexico, Delegate 8. P. Elkins; Washington, Delegate Orange Jacobs. Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia. Maryland West Virginia, * olorado, Montana. Wyoming Territory and the District of Columbia have no repreeentation.

Winslow, the Boston forger, is believed to have gone to Holland with his family. His forgeries aggregate several hundred thousand dollars, and he is thought to have taken a large portion of the avails with him. Capt. Paul Boyton swam from Alton, 111., to St. Louis, a distance of twenty-five miles, on the 29th ult., in his life-saving .apparatus. A dynamite explosion occurred on the afternoon of the 28th ult. in a factory in Baltimore. About 800 cans, containing twelve pounds of powder each, exploded in volleys, continuing for half an hour. ThebixiWingwss shattered, and six firemen were injured. The West Virginia State Senate has impeached John 8. Burdett, State Treasurer, and ordered his removal from office, by a vote of twenty to three. An Omaha telegram of the l 29th ult. states that a large number of citizens had left there during the previous week for the Black Hills, and many persons were arriving daily, m route from the East. Trouble was anticipated from the Indians. The Arrapahoeaare said to be determined on a war for the possession of the Black Hills country, and are prepared so» it. Senator Sherman has recently written a letter to State Senator Burns, of Ohio, in which he announces himself in favor of the nomination or Gov. Hayes for the Presidency, as being, in his opinion, the strongest candidate the Republicans can put in the field. Speaker Kerr seas written a letter to J. H. Reall, of Philadelphia, in which he states that he does lot desire to have, his name used in connpetion with the Democratic National ticket this year, but expresses his belief tttetthe Democracy cannot do better than te nominate Gov. Hendricks for President ' The Nebraska mate Fair occurs this ye» A Eincoin, commencing Sept. 25. Moses Stocking has leen chosen President of the State Board o&Agriculture. Great damage wL done throughout Southern Illinois, Inttana and Ohio by the heavy rains during£o week ending on the 29th ult T