Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1873 — General News luminary. THE OLD WORLD. [ARTICLE]

General News luminary. THE OLD WORLD.

A Madrid dispatch announces that oh the 12th the Cortes accepted the resignation of the Figueras Cabinet, and at a meeting of the majority held subsequently, the following Ministry was agreed upon: President of the Council and Minister of the Interior, Senor Pi y Morgall; Minister of the Colonies, Senor Sorin; of Foreign Affairs, Muzo; of War, Estavanz; of Marine, Aurich; of Finance, Ladus; of Public Works, Bcnot; of Justice, Gonzales. The authorities were determined to resolutely sustain the majority in whatever measures they might adopt. Figueras had left Madrid. It is reported that a treaty of alliance has been concluded between Germany and Italy... Khivan news to May 11 reports the junction of the two columns of the Russian forces, and the defeat of the Khivans at Chalaot after a severe fight, in which two Russian Colonels were killed; and at the Amur Daria River, where 3,500 Khivans were routed without the loss of a single life by the Russians. It is stated in recent dispatches from Japan that the Ministers of Finance of that country had resigned. They published a letter stating the indebtedness of the Empire at $104,000,000. The people are excessively taxed. The debt is increasing yearly, owing to the new schemes of the Government. One dispatch says it was possible the Ministers might receive an order to commit suicide. The French Government, it is said, has decided to immediately transport Henri Rochefort to New Caledonia, a French penal colony in the South Pacific. An official statement of the future policy of the new Spanish Ministry was read in the Cortes on the 18th. It favors the speedy demarkation of the Federal States; the restoration of discipline in the army; the proclamation of martial law against the Carlist insurgents; liberty of the Antilles, and suppression of slavery. It estimates the deficit in the finances at the end of the present month at 2,800,000 reals. The Russian!, oil May 20, took Kungrad, a Khivan town on the Amoo River, about 100 miles from Khiva. The Russian forces were advancing triumphantly, meeting with little resistance. A Rome dispatch of the 14th announces that the Pope had completely recovered from his late indisposition. A dispatch from Berlin on the 14th says that the Emperor continued very weak and required absolute quiet. At the session of the Spanish Cortes on the night of the 13th, the Government announced that a separation of Church and State was a part of its programme. Salmeron has been elected President of the Cortes by 176 votes to 74 for Figueras. A majority of the Cortes has appointed a Directing Committee, of which Castelar is Chairman. The steamship Great Eastern has commenced the laying of the new Atlantic cable from Valentin Bay, Ireland, to Sydney, Cape Breton. A verdict has been rendered by the Admiralty Court of Cadiz severely censuring the Captain of the Spanish steamer Murillo, and suspending his certificate for nine months, for the sinking of the emigrant ship Northflect. Advices from St. Petersburg on the 18th report further successes of the Russian expedi tion in Khiva. The Fortress of Mangit had been captured, and General Kauffmann, commanding the eastern column from Taskkend, had crossed the Amu-Dafia River at a point ■only twefity-flve miles from Khiva. The Shah of Persia arrived in London on the 18th. He met with an enthusiastic reception. On alighting from the cars, lie was met by the Prince of Walds, Prince Teck, Prince Chris, flan and the Duke of Cambridge, who cordially welcomed him to England. THE NEW WORLD. Gold closed in New York on tte lfittat U5%@116. At Decatur, 111., recently, Fred. Bickes, a hardware dealer, who had for some time past been a hard drinker, shot his father in the head with a small revolver. Bickcs, Jr., had been on a drunken spree, and went into his father’s house while the family were at tea, and was invited to partake, when he commenced abusing his mother, using the worst of language. His father ordered him to desist, w-hen he drew a pistol, leaned over the table and shot his father in the face. The wound was thought to bo fatal. Young Bickes then stepped away, placed the pistol near his eye and fired, the ball lodging in the brain, inflicting a mortal wound. The Illinois Press Association at its meeting in Quincy on the 10th, elected the following officers for the ensuing year: President, E. D. Buck, Charleston Courier; Vice-Presidents, S. J. Bradbury, Waukegan Patriot; E. H. N. Patterson,'Oquawka Spectator, Chas. P. Richards, Duquoln Tritmne; Recording Secretary, Cadet Taylor, Wehona Index-; Assistant Secretary, A. Holt, Kankakee Qazitte; Corresponding Secretary, C. N. Whitney, Princeton Herald; Treasurer, J. W. Clinton, Polo Press; Executive Committee, E. L. Merrill, Bpringfleld Register, Jas. Shoaff, Paris Gazette, J. D. Moudy, Richview Democrat. A long series of resolutions were adopted including the following: Resolved, That the press should advocate right regardless of consequences; speak the truth on all subjects, plainly, fearlessly, heroically. It should be a light in .dark places, a scourge to the wrong and a tireless champion of the right. Resolved, That capital wlthoutlabor is valueless, and labor without capital comparatively useless. Both, under the restraints of law and guided by knowledge and education, are the greatest blessings vouchsafed to man in this world of labor and rewards. Resolved, That the question of transportation is one of the most vital Of the age, and should have the careful study of the wisest of our thinkers; that to meet the lncreaaing demand upo the carrier arising out of tho wonderful development of our agricultural resources, all of our water advantages, both rivers and canals, must be utilized to their highest capacity, and our railroad facilities largely Increased; and that the question of supply and demand regulates prices, other things being equal. Resolved, That the members of the General Assembly be requested to pass a law defining and limiting the power of the Courts of this State to punish tor contempt of Court. Also, resolutions favoring temperance, the. public schools and the encouragement of agriculture and the mechanic arts, and condemning’ the salary-grab and the new Postal law. J The Agricultural Department at Washington has received accounts from ‘enough of the wheat-growing States to show that the crop of this year will, in all probability, be less than half what it was last year. Ia western New York, and In fact along the entire Hike region of the country, winter wheat is, as might have been expected from the unusual severity of the past season, almost a total failure. Otter crops have also been severely injured by the late spring. The crops in lowa were suffering greatly from the long-continued wet weather. There was every reason to believe that, with the exception of the fruit crops, ill others will be very short, tte de-

flclency being especially heavy in cereals. In fact, says the dispatch, 1873 will probably be the worst year we have had since the beginning of the war. The Civil-Service Advisory Board have recommended that the country be divided into four or more districts, each to have a chief examiner, and he to have associated with him certain officials; and that these boards hold their examinations-of applicants for positions at convenient points, thereby relieving them from the expense of traveling to Washington. The Massachusetts Legislature has adjourned sine die. The Chicago Journal of the I.3th says: “Attempts have been made from time to time by the various railroads in this State to effect some arrangement looking to the establishment of a uniform freight tariff, but always without success. Yesterday afternoon another meeting of general freight agents was held in this city for this purpose, but after a considerable discussion of the matter it was agreed that no joint action could be taken, and that each road must be a law unto itself in the matter. No further attempt in this direction will probably be made.” At its meeting qwjjCircleville on the 12th, the Ohio Valle J "Editorial Convention elected the following officers for the ensuing year: President, Wm. M. Milliken, Washington; Vice-President, E. R. Holdermain, Marietta; Secretary, H- C. Drinkle, Lancaster. Resolutions were adopted—determining not to abate the price of postage from the subscription price of newspapers, and asking Congress to amend the postal law so as to provide a sliding scale of postage for newspapers published in and out of counties and States, and providing that all newspapers carried by express companies shall pay postage rates. Joe Duncan, colored, was hanged at Paris, Ky., oh the 13th, for the murder of John Hawkins, colored, in April, 1872. The annual decoration of the graves of Confederate dead at Charleston, S. C., took place on the 13th. There was suspension Of business during the afternoon. The Secretary of the Navy does not hesitate to say, in advance of his official report, that the testimony elicited shows that Captain Hall died a natural death, and that the separation of those on the ice-floe from the Polaris was accidental. He is desirous, however, of hearing the story of Captain Buddlngton and his party, that both sides may be fully known. A vessel is to be sent by the Navy Department to Greenland, in quest of information concerning the missing Polaris and the Buddington party. Should its officers fail to learn anything of their whereabouts from the Danes or the Esquimaux of the island, a vessel thoroughly equipped for an Arctic voyage will be dispatched in search of them. A New York dispatch of the 14th states that General Sherman, in a conversation with a reporter, concerning General Davis’ indictment of Captain Jack, and the preparations for hanging him and some of his associates, said: “If the statement is correct there is no doubt that General Davis must have exceeded his duty, and he will be held responsible for his acts. He should be guided by militaiy rules and the law. We ail know they are murderers. The President himself says they are murderers, and had General Davis shot them while they were being pursued, I do not think that he would have exceeded his duty. He did not do this, and could not afterward hang them in cold blood.” Much indignation is expressed by the New York press over the result of the Stokes application for a new trial. A Peoria (Ill.) woman named Largent, and a Chicago woman named Minnie Doblingher are among the recent victims of the mania for starting fire by the use of kerosene. The Executive Committee of the Illinois State Farmers’ Association have issued the following call for a “Farmers’ Fourth of July:’’ Equal and exact justice to all men.— Jefferson. Tn accordance with the advice and request of persons in various parts of the State, the undersigned, Executive Committee of the Illinois State Farmers’ Association, would respectfully recoin-,, mend to the farmers of Illinois that they meet in county or other local meetings, on the approaching Fourth of July, for the purpose not only of duly celebrating the anniversary df our National Independence. hut also for the purpose of considering and acting upon the dangers that now threaten the safety of the nation and the liberty of the citizens in the shape of chartered monopolies and corrupt conspiracies against the public interests. We further recommend the immediate action of the County Associations, County Committees, Farmers’ Clubs, Granges, and persons otherwise interested. so as to secure at such meetings a large attendance, a free discussion of the grievances, and a more complete and thorough organization of the farmers of the State. Let us give this time-honored day a new lease of life, by a demonstration that may be hereafter commemorated as the dawning of a new era of Independence, not only for ns as a class, but for the whole people of the Statq, and nation. Leaving to the various committees of arrangements to make out such programme for the celebration of the day as may best be suited to each locality, we would merely suggest, instead of the stereotyped oration upon the glorious past by some aspirant for political honors, that we have the earnest, practical, common-Bense talk of the farmers themselves upon the duties of the present, and the reading of the new Declaration of Independence, whTch may, however, be altered, amended, or left out, as shall eeem best to those having the matter in charge. 'sY'iTO 9 ’ I Executive DTOcf N MTiKXT,f Com ” lttce ’ There were twenty-one interments at Memphis on the 15th, against twelve the day before. Physicians said the number of cholera patients was increasing, bat tte disease yielded more readily to treatment than before. The Mexican Border Investigating Committee, who have been engaged since January last in taking evidence, have returned to Washington to prepare their report. They investigated some four hundred cases, and received, in addition, thirteen hundred ex parte affidavits. The Comanches are said to be mainly engaged in the business of stealing and selling the children and women of tte white settlers, while tte Kickapoos and Lipans (and Mexicans disguised ss such) chiefly confine themselves to cattle stealing. The raids of these people are so frequent that stock-raising within 200 miles of the Rio Grande has been well-nigh abandoned. - - T ii. _ Commander Green has been ordered to the command of the vessel to be dispatched for the discovery and relief of the Polaris, with > Lieutenant-Commander White as Executive Officer. Efforts are being made- to start the expedition early in July. According to the Boston letter of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican of the 16th, VicePresident Wilson was lying dangerously ill in the former city. He was improving, but by no means out of danger. His incessant labors In the past election, followed by the strain and anxiety of last winter, and accompanied by a good deal of work on hla anti-alavery Watery, are regarded as tte Immediate occasion of his illness. In a libel suit brought by one W. H. Whitney against theJaneaviUe(WU.)daarfta l In w&ob the damages claimed were *IO,OOO, the Jury gave the plaintiff *l,lOO. The alleged libel consisted In an article published designating Whitney a* “a swindler.”

Senator Pomeroy’s trial for bribery and corruption was to have begun at Topeka on the 16th, but has been postponed until next fall. Near Dodson, Ohio, a few evenings ago, two little girls, aged respectively eight and ten years, who were out looking for a cow, were assaulted by a young man named George Donnell, and the younger girl was brutally outraged. Donnell was arrested soon after, plead guilty, and not procuring bail was sent to jail. A Cincinnati dispatch of the 16th says the previous forty-eight hours had developed the presence there of cases resembling cholera. Three fatal cases and three not fatal had been reported. There was little excitement, as the citizens generally did not apprehend the prevalence of cholera as an epidemic during this season. _ At Joliet, 111., on the 16th, an eight-year-old daughter of William Lewis poured kerosene oil from a lamp Into the stove to hurry up the fire, when an explosion followed, fatally burning the girl and a baby eight months old. Isham Belton O’Neill was hanged at Atlanta, Ga., on the 13th, for the murder of James Little in September, 1871. Attorney-General Williams has received an official telegram from New Orleans, from Governor Kellogg, in which the latter says: “My requisition, calling on the President, was fully justified, and the President’s proclamation has had a most salutary effect in all respects. Taxes are being paid more rapidly than ever before in Louisiana. After providing for the January and February interest, we have over $45,000 of State funds to-night in the hands of the fiscal agents. We will pay the March, April, and June coupons early in July. The injunctions only restrain the payment of the interest on five scries of bonds out of twenty-five. There is money enough to pay the interest on all the bonds in the hands of the fiscal agents." A few nights ago a party of fifty men in Rutherford County, Tenn., lynched a negro named Joe Woods, who had outraged and killed a white woman, a widow. There were fifteen deaths from cholera in Memphis, on the 16th, and in Nashville there had been thirty-two since the 14th, almost all of them among the negroes. An earthquake occurred on the 15th of May In the city of Valparaiso, South America. Several lives were lost and a number of public and private buildings were injured. Judge Johnson has been appointed Lieuten-ant-Governor of No va Scotia. President Grant has appointed, under the Civil-Service rules, the Board of Examiners for the Treasury Department, as follows: Stephen J. W. Tabor, Fourth Auditor; William H. Armstrong, Internal Revenue Bureau; and Charles Lyon, Secretary’s office. Colonel Mackenzie’s report of his recent attack upon the Kickapoo and Lipan Indians has reached the War Department. General Sheridan, in his indorsement on the report, says he does not believe thtff'any boundary exists when such merciless banditti are being pursued. He thinks there can be no just cause for dissension if the lawful forces of either the United States or Mexico pursue them for the purpose of capturing them or ending their deeds of violence. The total amount of back pay returned to the United States Treasury up to June 17 was $192,017. The number of Senators and Representatives who had declined to receive it was forty-six. The New Graphic has it “from the very highest authority that Plymouth Church will take no steps toward investigating the charges against Mr. Beecher, nor toward calling Mr. Bowen to account for anything he may have said concerning his pastor. And, furthermore, we have the best authority for saying that neither Mr. Beecher, Mr.' Bowen, nor Mr. Tilton will take any further notice of the disagreeable scandal that has been set afloat, and with which their names are more or less directly associated.” - The case of Susan B. Anthony, indicted for voting in violation of law, at the last November general election, was tried in the United States Circuit Court at Canandaigua, N. Y., on the 17th. The testimony was all taken, and the defendants counsel addressed the court and jury in a lengthy and exhaustive argument. Joseph ©. Howard, who had been arrested for stealing horses in Franklin County, Mo., was lynched by a party of some two hundred men on-the night of the 16th. He made a confession before he was hung implicating several other men in horse-stealing. The annual meeting of the Michigan Press Association commenced at Detroit on the 17th, The officers elected for the ensuing year are: President, R. L. Warren, Saginaw Enterprise; Vice-Presidents, J. Cross, Adrian Joumal; J. Hi Stone, Kalamazoo Telegraph; E. B. Pond, Ann Arbor Argue; Secretary, W. 8. George, Lansing Republican; Treasurer, A. L. Aldrich, Flint Globe. A resolution was adopted relating to the late postal law amendment, protesting “against such hasty legislation on the part of the American Congress as an onerous and unjiist tax on knowledge, alike detrimental to the cause of a free and enlightened Government, and the progressive spirit of the nineteenth century.” The Wisconsin Editorial Association met in annual convention at La Crosse on the 17th. About 225 members were in attendance. Samuel Ryan, of the Appleton Crescent, was chosen President.' The committee of white and colored citizens of Louisiana, of which Gen. G. T. Beauregard is Chairman, held a meeting at New Orleans on the 16th, which resolutions were passed, favoring the unification of “all men of whatever raoe, color or religion who are citizens of Louisiana, and who are willing to work for her prosperity;” advocating “the right of every citizen of Louisiana, and of every citizen of the United States, to frequent at will ail places of public resort, and to travel at will on all vehicles of public conveyance upon terms of, perfect equality with any and every other citizen," and pledging themselves, both by counsel and example, “to make this right both a live and practical right.” The final resolution is as follows: Resolved, That, In view of the numerical equality between the white and colored elements of our population, we shall advocate an equal distribution of the offices of trust and emolument in oar State, demanding as the only condition of our suffrage honesty, diligence and ability, and we advocate thii not because of the offices themselves, bat simply as an earnest and proof upon our part that the union we desire Is an equal union and cot an illusive conjunction brought about for the sole t benefit of one or the other of the parties to that mini. , The sudden death of a woman with symp-, toms of cholera was reported in Cincinnati on the 17th. The capture eg three negroes of New Iberia, La., who murdered two white man, was effected on the 17th, through the State’s evidence of an accomplice. They were thee taken from the officers of justice by s mob of over 1,600 white citizens, tad binged. They confessed taking part in the crime* hot

Insisted that the one who turned State’s evidence cut the throat' of one of the murdered men. ; — 1 . ■, . —: The Hon. Joseph Brooks has commenced a suit in the Circuit Court of Pulaski County, Arkansas, against Governor Baxter, for the office of Governor. At Memphis, on the 17th, there were fifteen interments, ten of cholera. On the same day there were fifty deaths in Nashville, thirty-five being from cholera. The disease was evidently spreading. Dispatches from Gallatin, Lebanon, Granville, and other points show thakthe scourge was carrying offa great many at those places. Tlie Texas Legislature in view of the Mexican depredations on the border, has provided for the employment of a volunteer force for the purpose of protection. President Grant has ordered the pardon of Rev. John Ezell, a Baptist minister, who was tried and sentenced eighteen months ago, in South Carolina, to the Albany Penitentiary as an alleged Ku-Klux leader. The twenty-ninth annual session of the National Division Sons of Temperance commenced in New York City, on the 18th, almost every State being represented. The delegates included several colored men. The annual reports show a flourishing condition of the Order. In the case of Susan B. Anthony, on trial at Canandaigua, N. Y., the Court directed the jury to render a verdict of guilty. After the verdict was rendered, the defendant’s counsel excepted to the decree and action of the Court, and insisted that upon "the construction given to the law by the decision, there had been only a violation of State law, and that the United States Court had no jurisdiction. The Chicago Time* of the 18th announces that the Chicago & Alton Railroad had established a schedule of rates under the new railroad law. The Times says the competing points will be obliged to pay higher rates than at present, and the points where there is no competition will pay perhaps somewhat less. The other roads had not yet prepared their schedules; but it was believed that they would conform in the main to the same basis as that adopted by the Alton Company. Hon. Sidney Breese has been elected ChiefJustice of the Illinois Supreme Court, vice Judge Lawrence, term expired. During the removal of the Modocs from the peninsula, Tule Lake, to Fort Klamath, one of the Indians known as Curly-headed Jack, who surrendered with the Hot Creek band to Gen. Davis, at Fairchild’s ranche, shot himself. He has since died. It has been decided by Judge Rogers, of the Circuit Court of Cook County, 111., that the authority of the Mayor of Chicago to revoke saloon-keepers’ licenses who violate the Sunday law, is warranted both by the spirit and the letter of the law. Two deaths from disease presenting cholera symptoms were reported in Cincinnati on the 18th. Both were new cases. One was sick only a day. The Michigan State Editorial Association, at its recent session, adopted resolutions recommending that all newspapers discourage unknown advertising agencies, and refuse to accept orders from them without cash in advance; that newspapers adhere rigidly to their prices, as well with advertising agencies as other parties; that the commission of twentyfive per cent, allowed to agencies is larger than the nature of thfc business will justify, and that the Association advises that not over twenty per cent, be allowed after July 1, 1873. A resolution was also adopted urging that on ail legal advertising statute rates be adhered to. Suit has been brought by the Attomey-Geu-eral of Arkansas in the Pulaski Circuit Court similar to the one brought by Brooks, setting forth that Baxter was not elected Governor, and asking a judgment of ouster against him. He brings the suit in the name of the State. In Memphis, on the 18th, there were fifteen interments, eleven of whom died of cholera. The weather was 'clearer, and hopes were entertained that the disease would subside. At Nashville on the same day the cholera deaths numbered thirty—eight whites and twenty two colored. Business was almost totally suspended, and there was a considerable exodus of people out of the city.