Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1874 — THE LATEST NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE LATEST NEWS.

Servile Insurrection Near Bahia Honda, Cuba. Reported Religious Outbreak In Mexico. Louisiana Bond-Holders Denounce the Recent Funding Bill. Election of Prince Kalekena as King of Hawaii. The Carlist Forces Marching Upon Madrid. Futile Attempt to Influence Temperance Legislation in Chicago. Official Returns of the Recent New Hampshire Election. Threatened Volcanic Eruption in North Carolina. Heavy ■■ Wind and Rain Storm at Cairo, 111. THE OLD WORLD. A gleat crowd of French people met at Chiselliurst, England, on the 16th, to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of the birth of the Prince Imperial. The Duke of Padua congratulated him upon attaining his majority, and the Prince made suitable reply, and in conclusion said : “ Despite the confidence inspired by the loyalty of President MacMahon, an irresistible current of public opinion has pronounced in favor of the plebiscite. lam ready to accept its verdict.” A London dispatch of the 16th says Gen. Wolseley would bring home the remains of Dr. Livingstone. According to a cable telegram of the 16th, the steamship Laconia, from Alexandria (Egypt), for Algiers, with 278 pilgrims, who were returning from Mecca, encountered a terifle gale in the Mediterranean. One huge wave washed overboard 117 of the pilgrims, and they were drowned. According to the statement of a correspondent of the Daily News, published iu London on the 17th, in the Tirhoot district in India 100,000 natives, all of them famishing or want of food, had applied to the Government for assistance. The correspondent adds that one-half the population will die if adequate relief be not afforded. 11 • A-Vienna dispatch of 41ie 17th says the Catholic Bishops in thc Rcichsrath threatened to withdraw if the passage of the ecclesiastical bills was pressed. A special dispatch to a London paper from Central Asia represents that anarchy reigns in Khiva. A meeting of Louisiana bond-holders was held in London on the 18th, and resolutions were adopted denouncing the funding bill passed at the late session of the Louisiana Legislature as arbitrary, unjust and Injudicious, and calculated to shake confidence in all American securities, They resolved also to take measures to resist the carrying into effect the provisions of the act. A Berlin dispatch of the 18th announces the death of Johann Heinrich Maedlcr, the wellknown German astronomer. •A Bayonne telegram of the 18th says the Carlists had entered Olot without opposition. The'English Parliament reassembled on the 19th. Shortly after opening the members of the House of Commons were summoned to the Chamber of f*eers to hear the Queen’s speech read. Suitable addresses in response were made were made by both Houses. The Fusileers arrived at London from the Geld Coast on the 19th. A dispatch was received by the Carlist Junta on the 20th, at Bayonne, saying that Gen. Palacios was marching upon Madrid with 12,000 men, after defeating with great loss the Republican column under Collejo, near Mlnglanilla, forty-four miles southeast of Cuenca. The Carllsta hadcaptured an outlying fort at Bllboa. The Bombardment of the city continued. The publication of military news at Madrid had been forbidden. A London dispatch of the 20th announces that the steamer Manitoban, from the Gold Coast, with Gen. Wolseley on board, had been signaled off Portsmouth. On the 20th an extraordinary rise in the Thames caused great damage in Lambeth and other parts of London. Sewers burst and the floors of many houses were forced up, and several children were drowned. At Woolwich the fires in the gun factories were extinguished and the store-houses set afloat. On the 21st Disraeli refused to receive a delegation which came to ask for the release of the Fenians. According to a Havana dispatch of the 21st the insurgent Col. Peralta and sixteen of his men had been killed by the Spanish troops. A late dispatch from the City of Mexico says that a Catholic mob had attacked the Protestant chapel in Puebla, smashed the windows and furniture, destroyed the Bibles and stoned the pastor, Rev. Antonio Corral. According to the London Morning Post of the 21st Gen. Wolseley had been rewarded for his Ashantee Successes by being made a Major General, and had been awarded a pension of £7,500 per annum. Kaiser Wilhelm celebrated his seventyseventh birthday on the 22d. The Generals of the army visited him in a body and congratulated him on the auspicious occasion. In his. reply the Emperor dedared his intention of maintaining the strength of the army with a view to insure the peace of Europe. THK NEW WORLD. According to information received by the Cuban Junta on the 16th there had been a recent uprising of the slaves in the neighborhood of Bahia Honda, about forty-five miles from Havana. The Captain-General. had ordered troops to the vicinage of the trouble. Another attack had been made upon the volunteers by the insurgents near NueVitas, which resulted ta the loss of twenty-five vol-

unteers and seventy wounded. Insurgent loss unknown. The following telegram was sent by the Associated Press on the morning of the 17th. Itbears date “ City of Mexico; March 16:” “Afearfui outrage was perpetrated by a mob at Ahualulco, in the State of Jalisco, last Sunday. In the morning a priest delivered an incendiary sermon, in the course of which he advocated extermination of the Protestants. This so excited his hearers that an armed mob of 200 persons gathered in the evening, and proceeded to the residence of the Rev. John Stevens, a Congregational minister sent out by the Boston Board of Foreign Missions. With cries of ‘Long live the priests!’ they broke into the house and, seizing the clergyman, smashed his head to a jelly, and chopped his body into pieces. They afterward sacked the house, and carried off everything of value. After much delay the riot, was suppressed by the local authorities.” A Washington dispatch of the 16th says the receipts from customs for the week were not below the corresponding period last year. It is the opinion of the Treasury officials that the customs have recovered from the effects of the fall panic. There was a general suspension of business In Boston, and all the public schools were closed, on the 16th, on the occasion of the obsequies of the late Senator Sumner. The funeral ceremonies were very imposing. Vast crowds assembled to witness and do honor to the procession. The services at King’s Chapel were of the most solemn and impressive character. The remains were buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery. Gov. Ingersoll has appointed Friday, April 3,. as a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer in the State of Connecticut. The colored people in various parts of the country held memorial meetings on the 16th in testimony Of their love and veneration for the life and character of the late Charles Sumner. The autopsy of the body of Senator Sumner was made by the physicians on the 16th, and is made public, as follows: “The left coronary artery in a 7 considerable portion of its length was so much ossified that its caliber was diminished at least one-half. The right coronary was slightly atharomatous, and considerably enlarged. The cavities of the heart were dilated, especially the lower third of the left ventricle. The walls of this ventricle were generally thinner than usual, especially so at a point about an inch and a half from the apex, over a space two-thirds of an inch in diameter. In the vicinity of this were several small clots of blood, some of which had probably formed before death. Nothing abnormal was found in the brain or other organs.” Dr. Brown-Sequard says no traces of the assault committed by Brooks were discovered in the brain. The Michigan House of Representatives on the 16th passed to a third reading the article of the new Constitution putting the question of woman suffrage to a separate vote by the people. In Chicago, on the afternoon of the 16th, the promised mass meeting of the ladies occurred. About 2,000 ladies were present, and after religious exercises a committee of fifty was appointed to visit the Common Council and present a petition for the closing of saloons on the Sabbath, which contained the names of 14,175 women. After the organization of the Council the petition was presented by i the Chairwoman of the ladies’ committee in a neat speech, and ordered filed. The pending ordinance, allowing the sale of liquor on the Sabbath, was then passed—yeas 22, nays 14. The ladies then retired, and were met at the exit-door of the City Hall by a crowd of disorderly men and boys, who rudely cheered and jostled them, and prevented them from leaving the building. At last a posse of police came to their assistance and safely piloted the ladles through the hissing* screeching, cat-calling, whistling, obscene rabble. The committee of ladies reported to those who had stayed behind to pray while they went on their perilous mission, as follows: “In spite of your remonstrance the Liquor law is passed by the Common Council. We have nothing now to do but to renew our pledgee to persevere in the cause. Let us all pray to that end.” Senator Sumner left an estate valued at SIOO,OOO. In his will he makes a bequest of $2,000 to the daughters of H. W. Longfellow; $2,000 to the of Dr. 8. G. Howe, and $2,000 to the daughters of James T. Furness, of Philadelphia, which, he says, I ask them to accept in token of gratitude for the friendship which their parents have shown me.” After providing for ah annuity of SSOO to his aunt, Mrs. Hannah Richmond Jacobs, of Scituate, Mass., the residue of the estate is to be divided into two equal moieties, one to be given to his sister, Mrs. Julia Hastings, of San Francisco, and the other to the corporation of Harvard College for the college library, the income to be expended in the purchase of books. The jury in the case of the Grant Parish prisoners, nt New Orleans, brought in a verdict on the 17th of not guilty as to Alfred C. Leavis. The jury announcing that there was no possibility of an agreement as to the others, they were discharged by Judge Wood, and the prisoners were remanded, on the motion of the District Attorney, who announced that there were other indictments against them. St. Patrick’s Day was celebrated throughout the country with great enthusiasm by the Irish-Americans. No disorders are reported anywhere. A Raleigh (N. C.) dispatch of the 17th states that rumbling noises were heard on the surface of Bald Mountain, in the western part of the State, and that a volcanic eruption was feared. The people living on and near the mountain were seeking safety In flight. Prince Kalakena has been elected King of the Sandwich Islands, to'succeed the late Lunalilo. When his election was made known there was a serious riot by a mob of Queen Emma’s adherents, which was only quelled by the of United States and British marines. One of the members of the Assembly was killed and several were badly injured. According to mall reports from Rio Janeiro of the 23d of February, Gen. Mitro had been elected President of the Argentine Republic. It was thought that a rupture between the Republic and Chlll waa Imminent. “ The City of Pekin,” the largest steamer ever built in the United States, was launched at Chester, Pa., on the 18th. The launch was witnessed by an Immenseconcouraeof spectators, among whom were many Senators and Representatives in Congress. The steamer belongs to the Pacific Mail Steamship Com-, pany. - The Massachusetts Senate, on the 18th, passed the Ten-Hour law by a vote of 19 to 18. The vote of New Hampshire, March 10, Is as follows: James A. Weeton, Democrat, for

Governor, 35,573 ; Luther McCutchins, Republican, 34,131; John Blackner, Temperance, 2,135. The Legislature is composed as follows : Senate—Democrats, 8 ; Republicans, 4. House—Democrats, 177 ; Republicans, 167. The Hon. O. B. Hart, Governor of Florida, died at his residence in Jacksonville on the evening of the 18th. Cairo, 111., was visited by a heavy wind and rain storm on the;ißth. Stores were unroofed, small buildings blown down, and in one instance a house was blown into the water, but no lives were lost. Wharf-boat proprietors and those in charge of the steamers in port acted on a hint from the United States Signal Office in that city that the local observations indicated a storm, and took the precaution to make everything extra secure. It is probably owing to this fact that no damage was done to shipping. A Havana dispatch of the 19th says that the Commission investigating the affairs of the Bank of Havana had ascertained that there had been an illegal issue of bills amounting to $44,000,000. Miss Ada C. Sweet has been nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate as Pension-Agent at Chicago, vice Blakely, resigned. She is the daughter of the late Gen. B. J. Sweet, First Deputy Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Speaking of this appointment a Washington telegram says: “The President has heretofore declined to appoint ladies to responsible disbursing positions, but the ability of Miss Sweet in the administration of the Chicago office while her father was Pension-Agent induced the President to makean exception in her favor. The Senate confirmed the nomination without the usual reference to a committee.” A counterfeit of the new fifty-cent note has been received at the Treasury Department in Washington. It is a poor imitation. A recent dispatch from Indianapolis announces that Mrs. Clem, four times convicted of the murder of Jacob Young and his wife, and whose fifth trial was set for March 27, was likely to be released from confinement, as the county authorities declined to appropriate any more money to prosecute her. The Legislature of lowa adjourned sine die on the 19th. George Russ, a boy about seventeen years of age, has been arrested at Davenport, lowa, on suspicion of setting several fires which have occurred there of late. The evidence against him is said to be strong. The praying women visited the saloons of Springfield, 111., on the 19th. The only result of the proceeding was to finish an exciting episode in the experience of the corner loafers. The ladies were not discouraged, and proposed to repeat the dose until every saloon in the capital surrendered. In Cleveland, Ohio, sixty women marched through the city and visited several saloons, but were so rudely treated that they were compelled to suspend operations. Two of the ladies were seriously injured by the surrounding mob. A Kingston paper of a recent date says an inquiry will shortly be held in respect to the British subjects captured on board the steamer Virginius and shot by order of Gen. Burriel. At a meeting of the New York State Grange on the 20th resolutions were adopted indorsing the declarations of the National Grange at St. Louis, and demanding legislation which will open and improve the avenues of traffic and produce and cheapen transportation! The Oregon Democratic ..State Convention at Portland, on the 18th, renominated Lafayette Grover for Governor, and 8. F. Chadwick for Secretary of State. G. A. Lodon was nominated for Congress. A platform was adopted in favor of the free navigation of the Columbia River, the construction of a breakwater at Port Oxford, and the construction of the Portland, Dallas <fc Salt Lake Railroad to the southern boundary of the State; sympathy was declared in favor of the Patrons of Husbandry, and in favor of an economical administration of State affairs. President Golder, of the State Grange of Illinois, calls upon the farmers of the State to send seed to their suffering brethren in Northwestern lowa. Seed wheat and oats are particularly called for, and if sent to the Spencer Relief Committee, Storm Lake, lowa, their proper distribution is vouched for By Mr. Golder. Joseph W. Whlcher, one of Pinkerton’s detectives, was recently killed in Saline County, Mo., by one of the James brothers, whom he was striving to arrest for being concerned in the Gad’s Hill Outrage. The Democratic members of the Massachusetts Legislature met in caucus on the 20th and nominated Judge B. R. Curtis for the vacancy in the United States Senate caused by the death of Mr. Sumner. The crusfiders renewed their efforts for the conversion of the saloon-keepers of Cleveland, Ohio, on the 20th. One band visited several saloons, everything passing off quietly, and the ladies were respectfully treated. Another band assembled at the Lorraine Church, where they encountered a large crowd, and as the ladies were leaving for their homes they were hooted at and jeered by the excited mob. The police, assisted by a number of gentlemen present, escorted the IMics to a place of safety. A policeman attempted to arrest one of a crowd of roughs and a fight was started, in -which the police were obliged to use their clubs, which they did with good effect, making several arrests. The streets were crowded with excited Germans, and a riot at one time was imminent, but the arrival of a reinforcement from the police headquarters put matters in better shape. During the excitement the German brewers organized a procession, composed of lager-beer wagons loaded with beer-kegs, on which sat a large number of men drinking beer as they moved through the streets. The Mayor had issued a proclamation forbidding unlawful assemblages. The Springfield (Ill.) saloons were besieged on the 20th, but no converts were made. A Washington telegram of the 21st says the Senate Committee on Finance had agreed to a compromise bill fixing the amount of greenback circulation at $382,000,000, thus legalizing the reissue of that part of the reserve now outstanding, which is reported to be $26,000,000. The bill will also authorize^ free banking on the National Banking syatemfLut will contain a. requirement that legal-tender notes shall be retired proportionately as new National Bank notes are issued. ——7 - President Grant is reported to have said, in conversation with a leading Republican Senator on the 21st, that a statement that any legislation tending to inflation must run the gauntlet ■of his veto was wholly^'without foundation; that he had conversed with no one on that subject at all; and that, If he were himself a member of Congress, he should regard an intimation of a veto in advance of leg-

islation as an unbecoming threat by the Executive, and should resent it. Judge Dent, brother of Mrs. Grant, died at his residence in Washington on the morning of the 22d. Frederick Douglass has been elected President of the Freedman’s Savings Bank at Washington, which has branches in nearly all the Southern States. Dr. C. B. Pares, another colored man, has been chosen Vice-President. Forty out of seventy clerks employed are colored. The New England Freedmen’s Aid .Society has decided to wind up its affairs. Since April, 1864, the society has received and # expended over $350,000, and has supported seventy teachers among the colored people of the South. . An extensive fire occurred at Indianapolis on the 22d. Twenty stores, many of them new, were destroyed. The losi was estimated at between $300,000 and $400,000. A horrible murder was recently perpetrated near Centreville, 111. The victims were Fritz Steltzereide, aged about eighty; his son and daughter-in-law, and two small children, one an infant. The throats of the two men were cut, and the skulls of the woman and children crushed. The murdered family lived on a farm three miles south-of Centreville. Joseph Booth fell under the cars at Virginia, Nev., a few days ago, and both his legs were cut off. A young man who witnessed the accident fainted, and his hair, which was jet black, turned instantly gray. Both men would probably die. Two sons of the Siamese Twins were in Philadelphia on the 21st, and would immediately leave for home with the remains of their parents. They deny that the family intended to exhibit the remains, and said they were to be at once decently interred. The sons have obtained from the physicians a statement denying that the bodies were given them for autopsy as a result of a pecuniary arrangement. A White House (N. C.) dispatch of the morning of the 23d says the reports of terrific rumblings and roaring noises at Bald Mountain were confirmed. Scientists direct from the scene said there was no doubt of volcanic action going on. Shocks were hourly felt, the crockery in some residences being thrown from the shelves. The citizens were fleeing. Religious meetings were held night and day. The savants thought a volcanic eruption very probable. CONGRESSIONAL. No session of the Senate on the 16th. ... .In the House,, bills were introduced and re. ferred—prohibiting the use of public horses and vehicles for private purposes in Washington, and forbidding the Government officials to require their servants to wear livery; for a commission in relation to the preservation of forests; to give land warrants to soldiers and sailors in the late war.... A bill was passed appropriating $30,000 to be expended in the course of the current fiscal year in improving the mouth of the Mississippi River.... An evening session was held for the discussion of the Transportation bill. In the Senate, on the 17th, several petitions were presented in favor of an increase in the volume of currency, and one from citizens of Detroit in opposition thereto, and favoring a speedy return to specie payment. ...A memorial was presented and referred from the Legislature of Wisconsin in reference to the improvement of the St. Croix River, and for the preliminary survey for the canal from Lake Superior to the Falls of St. Croix....A bill was passed to authorize the President to accept for citizens of the United States the jurisdiction of certain tribunals in the Ottoman dominion and in Egypt, established, or to be established; under tbe authority of the Sublime Porte and in the Government of Egypt Mr. Logan addressed the Senate on the bill to equalize the distribution of the currency, advocating an increase in the volume of the currency. .. .Adjourned. In the House, on the 17th,, a bill was passed exempting Kansas and-Missouri from the operation of the act of May, 1872, which forbids the pre-emption of iron and coal mines....Tbe Legislative Appropriation bill was considered in Committee of the Whole... .The Military Academy Appropriation bill was reported from the Appropriation Committee. ...A mH was reportedrrom the Military Committee, and made the special order for the first Tuesday in April, to provide for the gradual reduction of the army... .The transportation question was debated at the evening session .... Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 18th, a memorial of Mrs. D. R. Lawrence, of New York, was received and referred, announcing that the “ tida wave” of temperance would soon reach Washington, * and asking that a band of praying women be received at the bar of the Senate, and that the present- occupant of the chair, with Senators Chandler and Sprague, be appointed a committee to receive them... .The joint resolution of the Legislature of ’Wisconsin in favor of cheap transportation was received and referred .... Bills were introduced—for the relief of certain settlers on railroad lands; providing for the opening and Improving of ceriain water routes .... The financial question was further considered, Mr. Davis (W. Va.) expressing the conviction that the remedy for the present evils was in the transfer of banking capital from New England to the South and West, and not inflation.. The Army Appropriation bill was considered... .Adjourned. The regular session of the House on the 18th was devoted exclusively to debate on the bill to regulate interstate railroad commerce, on which subject several written speeches were delivered. ... .The evening session was given to the bill to revise and consolidate the statutes. In the Senate, on the 19th, bills were passed—amendatory of the act to prevent the extermination of fur-bearing animals in Alaska; authorizing the employment of certain aliens and engineers as pilots; appropriating SIO,OOO to pay the expenses of the Joint Committee to Investigate into the management of the affairs of the District of Columbia The House bill repealing the thirteenth section of the act of March 3, 1855, regulating the carriage of passengers in steamships and other vessels, etc., was reported from committee, without amendment .. The Army Appropriation bill was considered and several amendments were agreed t 0.... Executive session and adjournment In the House, on the 19th, a bill was introduced to amend the act of 1788 in regard to the enrollment and licensing of vessels employed In the fishing and coast trade... .The Legislative, Judicial and Executive Appropriation bill was considered in Committee of the Whole, and after an exciting debate on the question of mileage an amendment to reduce the amount one-half was rejected—sß to 59. Other proposed amendments were also rejected... .Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 20th, resolutions of the California Legislature were presented, protesting against any further subsidy to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and instructing the Senatorsand Representatives from that State to use their influence to have Articles 5 and 6 of the treaty with China modified so as to discourage the further Immigration of the Chinese.... The Committee on Public Lands reported unfavorably on the Senate bill granting aid to the Atlantic & Great Western Canal Company.... The bill to equalize ths National Bank circulation was made the special order for the 23d... .The Army Appropriation bill and the Fortification Appropriation bill were passed, with amendments.... At the request of the House, a Committee of Conference on the bill in regard to paying annuities to the Seminole Indians was granted, and Messrs. Buckingham, Ingalls and Stevenson were appointed on the committee on the part of the Senate... .Adjourned to the 23d. In the House, on the 20th, the Georgia contested election care was cqpstdered, the majority report being that Rowles, the sitting member, is not entitled to bls seat, and that Andrew Sloan, the contestant, is. The minority report takes the opposite position. The Republican members of the committee join in the majority report, and all the Democrats in the minority report... .A hill giving the approval of Congrew to the route and termini of the Auacostia A Potomac Railway in the District of Columbia was passed... .Adjourned. Senatenot in session on the '2lst In the House, the bill appropriating $250,000 for a

bridge over the eastern branch of the Potomac River was rejected.... A bill was passed appropriating $97,000 to pay the school-teachers of the District, the amount to be collected by tax on personal estate and on banks and other corporations.... The Georgia contested election case was taken up and debated. ...Adjourned.