Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1874 — THE LATEST NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE LATEST NEWS.

Denial of the Recently Reported Spanish Victory. Prospective Accommodation With the Cuban Insurgents. Escape of Henri Rochefort From New Caledonia. The Steamer Nile Foundered With All On Board. Public Debt Statement For the Month of March. Decision of the Congregational, Council at Brooklyn, N. Y. Several Persons Burned to Death at Millerstown, Pa. State Treasurer Baukin, of lows, Indieted For Embezzlement. =7 “ TUB OUD WORLD. The Aebantee troops were reviewed by the Queen in Windsor Park on the JiOth. Her Majesty made Sir Garnet Wolseley a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, and conferred on Lord Gifford the Victoria Cross. London dispatches of the morning of the 31st ult. say that extensive strikes had occurred in the coal and iron districts of England. A London dispatch announces the escape of Henri Rochefort and some of hia comrades from New Caledonia. They put to sea in au open boat, and, after having been three days out, were picked up by a British sailing vessel and carried to an Australian port According to a Paris telegram of the 30th Algeria had been declared in a state of siege, In order to restrain the violent abuse of the radical journals of that colony. On the night of the 30th dispatches were received from Carlist sources claiming a victory in the recent battle before Bilboa. The Republican losr, according to this authority, was 4,000 ki'led and wounded; Carlist loss 1,000. Madrid dispatches of the same date insist that == the victory was with the Republicans and very nearly reverse the figures. A London dispatch of the morning of the 31st ult. says the steamship Nile was lost on herinst voyage from Hong Kong to Yokohama and all on board drowned. Among the lost were the Japanese Commissioners to the Vienna Exhibition. The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cologne was arrested on the 31st ult. for violation of the German Ecclesiastical laws. A Madrid dispatch of the 31st ult. says that Marshal Serrano had issued an order prohibiting the transmission of private dispatches from Santander and vicinity. A heavy fire was kept up by the Artillery upon.the • Carlist position. Troops to the number of 15,000 had been forwarded to reinforce Serrano. The Carlist General Olio had been killed. A Calcutta telegram of the 31st ult. says that reports from the district affected by the famine show a great improvement in the con- , dltlon of affairs. ♦ A Berlin dispatch of the Ist announces the death of Peter Andrew Hansen, the German astronomer. A Bayonne dispatch of the Ist asserts tha the movement of Marshal Serrano against the Carlisle before Bilboa was an inglorious failure. According to a London dispatch of April 1 the Republican troops have taken no position held by the Carlists since March 25. A three days’ armistice, in which Bilboa was not included, had been agreed upon for the burial of the dead. In the meantime the bombardment of Bilboa continued. A steamer arrived in San Francisco on the 3d with Yokohama dates to March 10. The insurrection in the North had been quelled through the efforts of the Minister of the Interior. . - According to a Bayonne dispatch of the sth active operations in front of Bilboa were ’ resumed on the 3d. A Carlist Genera! is reported to have surprised and captured a detachment of 600 Republicans. THB NEW WORLD. A Washington Associated Proas dispatch of the 80th ult. says: “ In the appropriation bills already reported there has been a reduction of between (11,000,000 and (12,000,000 from the revised estimates of the departments, and the committee confidently expect to be able to effect an aggregate saving of (25,000,000 in the total appropriations this year aa compared with those of last year.” All grain received at New York will be graded hereafter by inspectors appointed by the grain-receivers of the Produce Exchange. The trial of John D. Sanborn and others, under an indictment charging them with coni spiring to defraud the Revenue Department at the Government, was commenced in the United States District Court in Brooklyn on the 30th ult. The news from Susquehanna Depot on the r 80fh ult. was to the effect that the men were being paid off and discharged. The military had entire possession of all the property of the company, and all was apparently quiet The ballot in the Massachusetts Legislature for United States Senator on the 80th resulted as follows: Whole number of votes cast 256; necessary to a choice, 129 ; Dawes received 85; Hoar, 78; Curtis, 78 ; Adams, 15; Banas, 7; Amasa Walker, Pierce, Washburn and Whittier, 1 each. The Missouri Legislature adjourned tine die on the 30th ult The new directory of Omaha shows 6,001 names. Counting 4X as the ratio, thia shows the population of the city to be 27,409. The Twenty-eighth General Assembly of Illinois was in session 208 days. Thq number * of.bill* introduced was 3,168, of which 256 were passed. The amount of appropriations was (5,688,880.

Thb Congregational Council recently in session at Brooklyn, N. Y., to consider the relation proper to be sustained by Congregationalists toward Plymouth Church, concluded its labors on the 28th. Tbe report adopted censured the chdrch fur its action in dropping Tilton, but at the sime time advised other churches to fellowship with the organization as formerly. It also contained a word of caution and forbade the recurrence of tbe offense under penalty of withdrawing from fellowship. The report was adopted by a vote of 87 to 8. Twenty-three refused to vote. The council then adjourned line die. Thb steamboat J. Hale, from Cincinnati to New Orleans, when 175 miles above Memphis, on the night of the 29th ult., burst her steampipe, causing the death of three members of the crew and severely injuring several others. Hon. Harvey Mbybrs, of Covington, Ky., law partner of Senator Stevenson, was murdered recently by Col. W. G. Terrell, a newspaper reporter of that city. Mr. Meyers was the attorney of Terrell's wife in a divorce suit. Secretary of the Treasury Richardson and Commissioner of Internal Revenue Douglass testified before the Ways and Means Committee in the Sanborn Investigation on the 31st. The former gave it as his positive opinion that the law under which the Sanborn contracts were given should be absolutely and unconditionally repealed. He had never spoken with Sanborn about his contracts, and had never been approached by any other person in Sanborn’s behalf. He knew absolutely nothing of the details of the matter Any; papers or documenta which he had signed were signed in the ordinary routine of business without giving them special attention. Mr. Douglass stated that he had never been consulted by the Secretary or Solicitor of the Treasury in regard to the law or contracts given under it, and knew nothing of the latter unless as they came incidentally to his knowledge in the course of proceedings. He stated that delinquent income taxes, and legacy and succession taxes, and taxes on railway dividends, etc., which are embraced in the Sanborn contracts, were all being collected through the regular officers of the Internal Revenue Bureau. He was very positive in the belief that there was no difficulty in having all these derelict taxes collected in the regular course of business, and as to ascertaining unpaid legacies and successions of taxes, he exhibited to the committee a book in which Assessors were required to keep records of all tbe estates of deceased persons that were liable to taxation. He did not believe in the policy of the law under which the Sanborn contracts were given out. It gave a monopoly to three persons, and thus intensified the meanness of the informer and spy system. He had never been consulted about or asked to recommend the passage of such law, although he had been under the Impression that he had been called upon by Sanborn and that Gen. Butler bad recommended him. Still, since having seen Sanborn lately, he did not appear to be the same person whom he had in his mind. 4 * Sanborn, on trial at Brooklyn fortonspiracy to defraud the revenue, has been acquitted by order Of Judge Benedict. Counsel held, first, that there was no allegation in the indictment that Sanborn, Hawley, and VandCrwerken conspired with any other persons to defraud the United States; secondly, that no offense Is charged under any law that exists upon the statute-book; thirdly, that the contract is not set out in the indictment. The Judge held that the contract which Sanborn had obtained did not support the averment in the indictment, and, with such conceded, he was of the opinion that the prosecution must fall. The vote for United States Senator in the Massachusetts Legislature on the 31st resulted as follows: Whole number of votes cast, 274; necessary to a choice, 188; Dawes, 95; Hoar, 78; Curtis, 76; Adams, 15; Banks, 6; Washburn, 2; Whittier and Pierce received each 1 vote. e A reunion of Abolitionists is to-be held in Chicago on tbe 9th of June. “All persons who were active Abolitionists at any time when the cause of the slave needed friends are especially invited to be present.” Temperance raids were the order of the day at Ripon, Wis., on the 31st ult. The crusaders called at six saloons, but were admitted to only one. Their religious exercises were carried on on the sidewalk. Ths Diario, of Havana, has recently pub lished articles advocating the restoration of peace with the insurgents. It was said that these articles were inspired by the Spanish party, and that their object was to prepare tbe people of the island for a manifesto of the prominent Cubans demanding an accommodation between the so-called loyalists and the insurgents, to be inaugurated by a temporary cessation of hostilities, and followedby a formal treaty of peace. Tbe bases of the treaty are made known, and Include a pledge that the Jsiand shall remain united to the crown of Spain; that tbe people shall elect representatives to the Cortes; that slavery shall only be interfered with by the consent of owners, and, in case that emancipation should be decreed, then the owners of slaves are to be indemnified. A general pardon will be granted for all political offenses, and all embargoed property shall be restored to its original owners. ’ . Thb striking workmen at Susquehanna Depot were paid off by tbe railroad company and discharged. On the Ist a large number of them sought admittance "TO the shops and were re-employed by the company. Proceedings in bankruptcy were commenced on the Ist by the New York Bank of Commerce against the Rhode Island Spragues. "A rias broke out in the Central Hotel at Millerstown, Pa., on the morning of April 1. Seven persons were burned to death. A large number of adjoining structures were destroyed. The loss amounted to nearly (300,000. Thb Rhode Island election for State officers occurred on the Ist. There was no Democratic ticket Henry Howard was re-elected Governor by a vote of 12,269 to about 1,600 for other candidates. Chas. C. Van Zandt was elected Lieutenant-Governor; Joshua M. Adderman, Secretary of State; Willard Sayles, Attorney-General, and Samuel Clark, Treasurer. The United States Supreme Court tn * recent case has decided that the directors of a corporation cannot increase the capital stock beyond the amount limited in its charter—in other words cannot “ water the stock ” without the express consent of stockholders. A ballot for United States Senator from Massachusetts was taken on the Ist with tbe following result: Whole number of votes CMkiMOi BMfNMgy (DrscboiM, IM; Dcwaa

had 95 votes ; Hoar, 74; Curtis, 75 ; Adams, 15 ; Banks, 6 ; scattering, 5. Thb following is the public debt state ment, April 1: Six per cent b0nd5(1,214,663 150 Five per cent bonds 609,248,450 Total coin b0nd5...(1.123.206,600 Lawful money debt (14,678,0 0 Matured debt 6,852.800 Legal-tender notes 882,076.887 Certificates of deposit 51,72’',0U0 Fractional currency 49.102,660 Coin certificates 87,045,600 Interest 29.676,661 Total debt. (2.295.058,558 t 86.121.379 Currency ■. 4,526,4 1 Special deposits held for redemption of certificates of deposit as provided bylaw 51,720.000 Total in Treasury....... (142,867.880 Debt lees cash In Trea5ury,....(2.151,690 728 Decrease during the month (2,189,338 Bonds Issued to Pacific Railway Companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding (64,623,512 Interest accrued and no: yet paid.... 969 852 Interest paid by United States 22,386,691 Interest repaid by transportation of mails, etc....... 5,501,867 Balance of interest paid by United States., 17,335,823 Thb following persons have been named to take charge and decide upon the articles to be exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition: Treasury, Hon. F. M. Sawyer; War, Col. S. C. Lyford, U. 3. A.; Navy, Admiral T. A. Jenkins, U. S. N.; Interior, John Baton, Esq.; Postoffice, Dr. Chas. F. McDonald; Agriculture, Wm. Saunders, Esq.; Smithsonian Institute, Prof. 8. F. Baird. The President has designated Col. S. C. Lyford, U. 8. A., Chairman of the Board. John T. Sanbron failed to make his appearance before the Ways and Means Committee on the 2d. The City Council of Philadelphia has passed by acclamation the (1,000,600 Centennial Appropriation bill. The official count of votes for Assemblymen at Providence, R. 1., elects fix, and finds no choice for seven, including Senator. A dispatch of the 2d from Susquehanna Depot, Pa., announces that everything was then quiet along the line of the Erie Road, and cars were moving with regularity. The troops had left that locality and no further trouble was anticipated. AU the men required by the company were at work in the shops. The lowa Commissioners report much difficulty in getting good seed grain for the northwestern sufferers. The average distribu ion will be fifteen bushels to each person. The present supply will not hold out. A Des Moines (Iowa) dispatch of the 3d says the District Court Grand Jury have found eight indictments against Isaac Brandt, Deputy under ex-Btate Treasurer Rankin, for embezzling or appropriating public moneys in the shape of interest or bonuses on State drafts of deposit. Brandt was arrested, and subsequently released on (3,000 ball on each indictment,or (24,000 in all. Indictments were also returned against Rankin. The old indictment against him for the embezzlement of State funds was dismissed, and all the indictments now returned are for embezzlement of moneys of the State Agricultural College. Rankin has also given bail. Thb Michigan' Stat e Treasurer’s statement for March is as follows: Balance Feb. 28, (1,168,518.81; receipts for March, (181,502.04; total, (t,295;015.85. Payments for March, (82,456.95. Balance, March 31, (1,212,558.90. Thb Union Park Baptist Church of Chicago has dissolved Its pastoral relations with the Rev. Florence McCarthy. This action is in accordance with the verdict of the Ecclesiastical Council before which the reverend gentleman was recently tried on the charges of having used language and been guilty of acta unbecoming a minister of the Gospel. While a band of women were engaged in prayey Rt the back door of Lathrop’s saloon, in Warsaw, Ind., a few nightaago, a man stepped out of the saloon and struck Mrs. Thomas Woods a fearful blow in the breast, knocking her prostrate upon the ground. She was carried home unconscious. He was subsequently arrested. There was a heavy frost at Memphis on the night of the Ist, and some ice. It is feared that the fruit crops were seriously damaged. On toe 2d the temperance crusaders were out in force at Jacksonville, 111., visiting the saloons and singing and praying with the inmates. according to a recent report from toe Treasury Department, it appears that within the last ten years toe number of vessels lost on tbe great lakes was 4,527. The loss of life amounted to 1.341 persons, and toe loss of property aggregated (27,870,062. Thb vote in the Massachusetts Legislature for United States Senator on the 3d resulted as follows: Whole number of vote*, 262; necessary to a choice, 132. Dawes received 91'; Hoar, 75 ; Curtis, 70 ; Adams, 16; Banks, 5; Pierce, 2 ; Washburn, Whittier and Phelps, 1 each. At the recent State election in Rhode Island toe Republicans cast 7,679 and the Prohibitionists 6,512 votes. Thb following is the report of toe Illinois State Treasurer for March: Receipts—Revenue fund, (32,029 62; school fund, (1,806.55; local bond interest, (11,860 00; total, (45,196.17. Disbursements—Revenue fund, (47,715.05; school fund, (1,250.00; total, (48,965.05. A Washington dispatch of toe 4th says toe Senate Committee on Transportation would recommend ultimate Government aid to toe four principal schemes of internal improvement which have been urged : The Fort St. Philip Canal; improvement of the Ohio River; enlarged means of intercommunication between the great lakes and the Atlantic & Great Western or James River & Kanawha Canal. The estimated cost of these improvements is (100,000,000. Thb authorities have fixed upon April 29th as toe day for the eulogy at Boston upon Charles Sumner by Senator Schurz. The Mayor will preside, and Wendell Phillips will introduce tbe orator. A disastrous fire recently occurred at Cohoes, N. Y., in consequence of which one large knitting factory was entirely and another partially consumed. A thousand operative* were thrown out of employment. A meeting of persons who favor cremation was held in New York on tbe evening of toe 4th. The Bev. O. B. Frothingham said he was not prejudiced against burning the dead. Charles A. Dana regarded toe present unscientific mode of disposing of the dead as discreditable to the race. Henry Bergh, PreaMent of toe Society for toe Prevention of Cruelty to Anlgxis, tataied that tabmattos sattoM

no reasonable demand of our nature. It was proposed to form a permanent organization, in a few weeks, of those favoring cremation. • The tenth joint ballot for United States Senator was taken in tbe Massachusetts Legislature on the 4th. Only 250 votes were cast. Dawes received 88; Hoar, 75; Curtis, 64; Adams, 13; Banks, 5; Pierce, 2; Whittier, 1; Gaston, 1; Phillips, 1. A balloon excursion was made by Barbier at San Francisco on the sth, accompanied by three men and two ladies. When 600 feet in the air the balloon collapsed and rapidly descended, striking the ground trith great force, and dragging a distance of 800 yards. All on board were seriously injured, but none fatally, There was good sleighing in Chicago and many othrr sections of the West on the 6th. The snow-storm on the sth was pretty gen erul throughout the Northwest, and is said to have been, in many localities, heavier than was experienced at any time during the past winter. From jSix to twelve inches of snow fell during the day. According to the finding of a Commission of Lunacy Col. James Mayo, State Treasurer of Virginia, has been declared insane, and sent to a lunatic asylum. Recently, at a trial before the New Orleans District Court, an altercation occurred between D. A. Phillips, an attorney, and an old citizen named Arestide Bieuvenu, against whom he was bringing suit. The latter offered a gross insult, whereupon Phillips knocked him down. Subsequently a challenge passed between the parties, and on the morning of toe 4th a duel was fought. Bienvenu was shot through the heart at toe first fire. The weapons were double-barreled shot guns, and toe distance forty paces. CONGRESSIONAL. In the Senate,.on the 30th, the memorial of the Governors of Indiana, Ohio and Illinois in relation to the 2 per cent, fond which they claim a due those States from the General Government was reported back from the Committee on Public Lande, with a bill to settle the account between them and the United States, whieh bill was placed on the calendar The House lull in relation to mineral lauds, excluding the States of Missouri and Kansas from the operations of the Mining act of May 10,18.2, was reported from committee, with amendments Sundry resolutions of the Wisconsin Legislature in regard to tbe Improvement of the Mississippi River and its tributaries, and for increased mail facilities in that State, and for the improvement of the Wisconsin River, were presented and referred.... The bill to provide for the redemption and reissue of United States notes and for free banking was taken up and a motion was adopted—2B to 23—to strike ont the second section of the bill reported by the committee, which provides that on the Ist of January, 1876, United States notes shall be redeemable in coin or interest-bearing bonds. Several proposed amendments were rejected.... Adjourned. In the House, on the 30th, among the bills introduced and referred were—appropriating (10,< 00 to buy Carpenter's painting of the “ Signing the Proclamation of Emancipation for the construction of the Portland. Dallas A Salt Lake Railway, and' for the performance of all Government sendees free of charge... .The Senate bill providing for the payment of the bonds of the Louisville A Portland Canal Company was reported from committee, with amendments, and considerable discussion ensued on the bi 11... .Adjourned. In the Senate, on the (Ist, memorial were presented and referred, signed by 7,275 citizens of California, setting forth tbe evils of tbe u-e of Intoxicating llqiors, and asking for legislation to prevent Intemperance and the manufacture of snch liquors... .The bill to provide tor the redemption and reissue of United States notes and for free banking was taken up. and a motion to strike out the fourth section of the bill was agreed to—29 to 27. Several amendments to the bill were offered and rejected... .Adjourned. In toe Houte, on the diet, the bill providing for the payment of the bonds of the Louisville A Portland Canal Company was passed after being amended so as to provide that no money shall be paid under this act until the State of Kentucky shall have ceded the jurisdiction over canal property to the United States ... A petition of tax-payers of South Carolina, sigqpd by a large number of prominent and Influential citizens of that State, was presented and referred to the Judiciary Committee, reciting the excessive taxation to which the people of that State are subjected, and that the proceeds of such taxation are systematically squandered or stoics instead of being devoted to the legitimate purposes of the Government, and asking Congress to consider their condition and devise some means of relief.... A bill was introduced and referred for the relief of the Commissioners to the Vienna Exhibition. ... Adjourned. Tn the Senate, on the Ist, the House bill to secure to the Episcopal Board of Missions land In the White Earth Indian reservation in Minnesota, for the erection of churches and otl.er buildings, was passed... .The joint resolution of the Legislature of Missouri for the improvement of the mouth of the Missouri River was presented.... The bill to provide for the redemption and reissue of United States notes and for free banking was further considered, and several proposed amendments were rejected.... Adjourned, In the House, on toe Ist, a countedstatement and reply of the Republican Central Committee of South Carolina to the memorial of the tax-payers of that State, presented the day before, was presented and referred. The statement declares that the taxpayers have only themselves to blame in not aiding in the work of reconstruction, and that the allegations as to tbe increased expenditures of tbe State Government are incorrect, the items given being wholly inaccurate, untrue and skillfully selected to deceive.... A noisy discussion occurred on the Senate bill supplemental to the Mining law of the 10th of May. 1872... .The Currency hill was taken up and debated—At the evening, session the hill for the revision of the laws was completed and passed... .Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 2d, the Senate bill to amend tbe act to promote the development of tbe mining reserves of the United States, with House amendments thereto, was referred....A bill was reported from the Committee on Postoffices and Poet-roads, to provide for the transmission of correspondence by telegraph, which bill is the Hubbard Postal Telegraph minor bill unchanged, except in matter of detail .. .The bill to provide for the redemption and reissue of United States notes and for free banking came up, and several amendments were offered and rejected A substitute for the third section of the bill as reported by the committee was adopted—33 to 19—and provides •That (46.000.0t0 in notes for circulation, in addition to such circulation now allowed by law, shall be Issued to tbe National Banking associations now organized and which may be organised hereafter. and such increased circulation eball be distributed among the several Elates as provided in Section 1 of the act of July 12, 1870. "....Executive session and adjournment. In the House, on toe 2d, but little business was tranaae’ed, the Currency bill being under consideration, and a lengthy debate ensued thereon, which extended into the evening session. Notice was given of a substitute for the pending bllL which was In part substantially tbe same, free banking being a feature common to Wbth....Adjourned. In the Senate, on toe 3d, a memorial from citizens of Kansas, asking for protection against outrages by the Osage Indians, was prise n ted and referred....A favorable report was made on the Senate Mil to set apart a certain portion of the island of Mackinac aa a National Park. . .The bill to provide for tbe redemption and reissue of United States notes and for free banking wae briefly considered, after which the bill providing for the payment of tbe bonds of tbe Louisvilh- A Portland Canal Company was taken up and a motion was made to disagree with the House amendment, and asking for a Committee of Conference, but no vole was reached.... Adjourned to the 6th. In toe House, on toe Bd, bills were passed—to legalize a pontoon bridge across the Mississippi River at Prairie du Chien; providing for the appointment of a civil agent, and for the detailing of a naval officer to act in concert with such agent, to obtain Information wuh regard to the fur and seal trade of Alaska, and to report whether the contracts as to seal fisheries hare been complied with and can be safely SBtended; several private pension bi 115.... A bill was rsfliorted Bdvwßßly from ttffi Vkwitttrm oa war

Claims, and laid on the table, appropriating nearly (1,6c0,000 for the value of cotton and woolen mills de-troyed during tbe war of tbe rebellion by order of Gen. Grant, and for cottoil bonds and Confederate money taken from a bank at Jackson.... Adjourned. Shnate not in sedlion on the 4th... .In the House, a bill was passed amendatory of the act offluly 18, 1793, in regard to the enrollment of coasting and fishing vessels.... Leave was asked and objected to, to report a bill from the Judiciary Committee, providing that any civil officer of the United Stales except the President or Vice-President, who shall bo impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors by the House of Representatives, shall be suspended from office until he shall be discharged from such impeachment by the Senate or until ths withdrawal of impeachment... .On motion it was ordered that the Speaker’s warrant be issued for the attachment of G. H. Patrick, of Montgomery, Ala., and that he be brought before the House for contempt for refusing to appear before the Judiciary Committee ano testify in the matter of the impeachment of Judge Bus teed... A large number of private bills were passed.... The Currency bill was further debated. ... Adjourned.