Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1874 — LATEST NEWS. [ARTICLE]

LATEST NEWS.

Another Marine Horror Near Australia. Attempted Assassination in London. ' i ' The Views of the President Upon Specie Payment. Suit to Test the Validity of the Wisconsin Railroad Law. Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc.,. Etc. THE OLD WORLD. According to Madrid dispatches of the 2d a demonstration was making against ,Ban Sebastian. It was thought the CarlUts would capture that city. According to Madrid dispatches of the 4th Lequeitto, a Biscayan maritime town, had been bombarded by a Republican vessel because a foreign vessel laden with articles contraband of war had been admitted into the port. On the sth 500 of the Intransigente insurgents who some time since escaped from Cartagena to Algeria re-em-barked for Spain on a Spanish steamer. Over $200,000 in gold were recovered. According to Bayonne dispatches of the 6th a serious mutiny had broken out among the National forces at Guipuzcoa. It wasrumored in Madrid that the Carlists had been defeated in Gangia. The Prince of Saxe-Welmar was fired at by an unknown assassin on the evening of the Ist, as he was leaving his residence. Jle escaped serious inlury. The ship British Admiral recently went ashore on King’s Island, near Australia. All of her passengers and crew were lost except nine persons. There were eighty-five in all on board. According to a Paris dispatch of the sth the council of war had sentenced to death Deputy M. Bloncourt, of Guadaloupe, for participation in the acts of the Commune. M. Bloncourt escaped from France several months ago. On the 6th 110 Deputies united in a manifesto calling for a proclamation of a definite French Republic or a dissolution of the Assembly. The excitement in Paris was very great, and the situation was considered very grave. The owners of the Durham collieries, according to a London dispatch of the 4th, were evicting large numbers of their striking tenants. Capt.-Gen. Concha has decreed that the price of gold in Cuba shall be regulated by a notice which he will give every morning. The Catholic Episcopate of Bohemia has resolved to array It. cl I against the Rceiesiasticsl laws. _ * THE NEW WORLD. On the Ist a solicitor of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company caused papers to be served on the Attorney-General of Wisconsin and the Railroad Commissioners, notifying them that an injunction would be applied for in the United States District Court fOPthe Western District of Wisconsin, to restrain them from instituting any proceedings or taking any measures for the purpose of executing the act of the last Legislature regulating railroads. This action was brought in the name of the creditors of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company, who claim that their securities are weakened or destroyed by the law. At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, held in Chicago on the 4th, a resolution was adopted approving of the action of the Directors in contesting the recent Wisconsin legislation. A Milwaukee Judge, on the 4th, decided the Potter law to be constitutional, in an action brought by certain Oconomowoc parties against the St. Paul Railway. The case was appealed to the Bupreme Court. The Wisconsin roads have decided to adopt the plan of requiring all passengers to prepay their fares before entering the trains- The hearing on the application for an injunction restraining the officers of the State of Wisconsin from enforcing the Railway law until Its validity can be determined has been postponed until the third week in June. The resignation* of Secretary Richardson was accepted on the Ist, and Gen. Bristow, of Kentucky, nominated as his successor. Mr. Richardson was nominated to fill a vacancy in the Court of Claims. Mr. Banfield, Solicitor of the Treasury, also resigned. Gen. Bristow was confirmed as Secretary of the Treasury on the 2d, and the nomination of exSecretary Richardson as Associate-Justice of the Court of Claims was also confirmed. On the 4th Gen. Bristow assumed the duties of Secretary of the Treasury, and Mr. Sawyer tendered his resignation as Assistant Secretary. A man natned McCullaugh fell from the bridge on Three Sisters Island, Niagara Falls, on the Ist, and was carried to the brink of the falls, where he lodged against a rock. He was subsequently rescued by a fellow-laborer, who tied a rope to his body and was let down by persons on the bridge to where McCullaugh was clinging. The public debt statement for the month of May is as follows: Six percent bonds... $1,*13,967,900 Five per cent bonds..... 510,879,100 Total coin bonds.....' $1,794,445,900 Lawful money debt. $14,578,000 Matured debt 4.881.800 Legal-tender notes 882,075,177 Certificates of deposit 86,050,000 Fractional currency 46,588,649 Cota certificates 88,179,500 [nleresj v 88,864,098 Total debt 52.a9<456,119 Cash to Treasury— Coin $81,968,979 Currency...,.' 11,177,708 Special deposits held for redemption of certificates of deposit ss providedby 1aw....... 56,060,000 Total In Treasury. $149,186,6e2 Debt, lees cash to Treasury .$5,145,868,437 Decrease daring ths m0nth........... $4,458,835 Bonds Issued to the Pacific Railroad Companies, Interest payable to law- * ful money, principaloutstandimr.... $64,888,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid.. .. . 1.615.587 Interest paid by United States.. 28,886,691 Interest repaid by transportation ol mails, etc..... 5,095,450 Balance of interest paid by United States 17,291,20 The wife of Michael Dwyer, of Brooklyn, N. Y., killed her three children and seriously hart her husband on the. morning of the 3d. Shewaa insane.

The boot and shoe establishment of M. D. Wells & Co., of Chicago, was entirely consumed by fire on the morning of the Ist. Loss $300,000. Another suit was brought by the Illinois Railway Commissioners against the Chicago & Alton Railroad Company on the 2d, for violation of the Illinois Railway law. Retains received from the Oregon State election on the morning of the 3d indicate the election of the Democratic State ticket and the choice of a Republican Congressman. The Secretary of the Treasury has given notice of the readiness of the Department to redeem 5-20 bonds as follows; Third scries, act of Feb. 25,1862, SSO coupon bonds No. 10,601 to No. 12,100, both inclusive; SIOO, No. 34,001 to 34,400; SSOO, No. 17,601 to 19,300; SI,OOO, No. 41,001 to 46,100; registered SSO, No. 1,411 to 1,450; SIOO, No. 10,561 to 10,680; SSOO, No. 6,301 to 6,390; SI,OOO, No. 25,651 to 26,100; $5,000, No. 8,101 to 8,300; SIO,OOO, No. 10,321 to 10,509. Total, 95,000,000. Interest will cease on the above bonds on the 3d of September next. Col. Scott was elected President of the Pennsylvania Central Railway Company on the 3d. Dr. Patton, the prosecutor of Prof. Swing before the Chicago Presbytery, has taken an appeal to the Synod of Northern Illinois, basing his appeal upon the “ prejudice, haste, injustice, mistakes and irregularities” of the former body. 1—- —— ? - ..... Wjntebmute, who murdered Gen. McCook, Secretary of Dakota Territory, in September last, has been convicted of manslaughter. Gov. Weston, of New Hampshire, was inaugurated on the 4th. The Committee of Conference on the Currency bill, on the 4th, decided to recommend that 37)4 per cent, he the proportion of greenbacks to be retired; the abolition of reserves in circulation; and Jan. 1, 1878, as the: time for the resumption of specie payment. Gen. Sheridan telegraphed to the military authorities on the sth that the Indians in the vicinity of Fort Abraham Lincoln had taken the war-path in large numbers. The Anti-Secret Society Convention, recently held at Syracuse, N. Y., adopted resolutions declaring that in all secret, oath-bound fraternities, including Granges and secret temperance societies, the convention recognizes a conspiracy against all who do not belong to them, and a standing menace to the religion of Jesus Christ; expressing special opposition to speculative Free Masonry; refusing to vote for Masons for civil office, and agreeing to raise SIO,OOO for the support of a general agent and lecturer. A letter to the President was adopted, protesting against the proposed Masonic dedication of the Chicago public building. Indianapolis was selected as the place, and the third Wednesday in August as the time, for holding a National Convention to adopt a political platform. The “ America” is to be the name of the party. Pittsburgh was selected as the place for the holding of the next annual convention. The time Of holding the umo Democratic State Convention has been changed from J uly 15 to Aug. 26. According to Washington dispatches of the 6th and 7th the President’s currency pronunciamento had caused a profound sensation in political circles. The views of the Republican members of the House of Representatives were, it was said, decidedly adverse to those enunciated by the President. A caucus would be held to decide upon the line of policy to be pursued in relation to the currency matter and the Civil Rights bill. Henri Rocheeort left New York for Europe on the 6th. A terrific tornado visited the town of Tampico, 111., on the night of the 6th, and caused the total destruction of twenty-one dwellings and more or less damaged every bouse in the place. No person was killed but several were seriously injured. Cholera is reported to have made its appearance in New Orleans.

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CONORKSHIOBAL. In the Senate, on the Ist, bills were passed—to amend the lain relating to patent*, trade-marks and copyright*; for the completion and location of the naval monument, appropriating $35,000 therefor, and providing that it shall be placed qp the public grounds In Washington, D. C.: making appropriations for the support of •the Military Academy, with amendments.... Several amendment* to the Indian Appropriation bill were agreed t 0... A memorial was presented and referred from dtixen* of the United States, praying for the reneal of the charter granted by Congress to the Masonic Hall Awociation of the District of Columbia; the enactment of law* making the appointment to office of persons bound by oath of secret organization unlawful; according the right of peremptory challenge of Juror* who are members of secret societies, and for a law making a ehapge of venue allowable when the presiding officer 6f the court i* a member of such societies... .Adjourned. 4 In the House, on the Ist, among the bin* introduced and referred war* the following: For an amendment of the Constitution so as to provide for the election of United Suites Senators

by the people; authorizing women, otherwise qualified, to practice as attorneys and counselors-at-law in the several courts of the United States ....Bills were passed—to amend the existing Customs and Internal Revenue laws; requiring the various branches of the Pacific Railways to be run and operated as a continuous line of railway, and providing penalties for making discriminations against other companies, and declaring the Denver & Pacific Railway a part of the extension of the Kansas Pacific Railway; Senate bill to amend the Mining law of May 10, 1872, extending to Jan. 1 next the time for performing work on mining locations so as to prevent forfeitures; relieving saving banks that have capital stock from the payment of taxon deposits as in case of savings banks having no capital; allowing settlers in certain counties in Minnesota and lowa to be absent from their lands, on account of the plague of grasshoppers, for one year without forfeiting their rights.... A Conference Committee was ordered on the Senate amendments to the Banking law ....Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 2d, several bills were reportod from committees and plaeed on the calendar, among them a substitute for the bill to regulate commerce by railway among the several States ...The Indian Appropriation bill was amended and passed.... Executive session and adjournment. In the House, on the 2d, the bill reported some days before from the Judiciary Committee in relation to the courts and judicial officers in Utah, and having in view the suppression of polygamy, was called up and debated, and finally passed—ls 9to 55... -The remainder of the day’s session was given to the business of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, and a bill was passed authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to suspend work on public buildings in certain cases. In the Senate, on the 3d, bills were passed—House bill authorizing the appointment of three Commissioners by the Comptroller of the Currency to wind up the affairs of the Freedmen’s Savings and Trust Company; House bill relieving savings banks that have capital stock from the payment of tax on deposits as in case of savings banks having no capital, with an amendment; the Consular and Diplomatic and Pension Appropriation bills, with amendments... .The Cheap Transportation resolution, instructing the Committee on Appropriations to report amendments to the pending River and Harbor Appropriation bill to complete the surveys and estimates for each of the Improvements recommended by the Select Committee on Transportation upon the four routes indicated in the report of that committee, was debated at considerable length, and several amendments were disposed 0f.... Adjourned. In the House, on the 3d. a joint resolution was passed providing for the termination of the treaty of the 17th of July, 1858, between the United States and Belgium, which proves detrimental to American commerce.... Several of the Senate amendments to the Army Appropriation bill were non-concurred in, and the bill was sent to a Conference Committee.... The conference report on the Navy Appropriation bill was agreed t 0.... The Senate amendments to the House bills to amend the Pension acts and to increase the pensions of totally disabled men were sent to a Committee of Conference.... After debate on the bill for the improvement of the mouth of the Mississippi River a recess was taken, an evening session being held for debate only. IN the benate, on the 4th, the House bill to remove the legal and political disabilities of Filz Hugh Lee, of Virginia, and the Senate bill to remove the political disabilities of Van R. Morgan, of the same State, were passed... .The Cheap Transportation resolution was further discussed ....Amotion was agreed to insisting upon the Senate amendments to the bill to amend the charter of the Freedmen’s Saving and Trust Company, and a Conference Committee was appointed ....Adjourned. In the House, on the 4th, bills were passed—for deepening the channel at the mouth of the Mississippi River by dredging or otherwise; to prevent the introduction of Infectious diseases; for the further security of navigation on the MisaisstDDi River: to authorize the building of a bridge across the Mississippi at LS Crosse, wis ..The Senate amendments to the bill in regard to savings banks and to the Military Academy Appropriation bill were concurred in... .An evening session was held for„debate on the condition of the Washington monument. In the Senate, on the sth, the bill for the relief of certain settlers on puUlic lands in Minnesota and lowa was passed.... The bill to provide for sales of extra copies of public documents and for the distribution of regular official editions thereof was taken up and several amendments were rejected, and one was agreed to, providing for the printing and distribution of 800,000 (instead of 25,000) copies of the annual reports of the Department of Agriculture—2oo.ooo copies for the House, 75,000 for the Senate and 25,000 for the Commissioner of Agriculture... .Adjourned to the Bth. IN the House, on the sth, the conference report on the Diplomatic Appropriation bill was agreed t0....8i11s were passed—for the Improvement of the mouth of the Mississippi River by permanent jetties, and for the construction of the Fort Bt, Philip Canal and its maintenance as a national highway—l4o to 80; to ascertain the possessory rights of the Hudson Bay Company and other Briiish subjects within limits which were subject of the award of the Emperor of Germany under the Treaty of Washington... .Adjourned. Senate not in session on the 6th... .In the House several private bills were passed, as were also the following: For the sale of the Kansas Indian lands in Kansas; providing for a Commission of Engineers on the Mississippi levees; for the prepayment of postage on printed matter—loß to 78; for adjusting the salaries of Postmasters.... A Conference Committee was ordered pn the Senate amendments to the Deficiency Appropriation bill .. A report was made from the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice in regard to the expenses, disbursements and general management of the West Judicial District of Arkansas Since its reorganization in 1871. The committee finds that the expenditures have been extraordinarily large, and are not in all cases supported by appropriate vouchers. As to the Judge of the district, William Story, the committee says that the records of his court show that parties have been bailed after conviction for capital offenses and while awaiting sentence, and, while motions were pending for new trials, which were never acted on; that, notwithstanding the requirement of the law that he shall examine and approve the accounts current of the Marshal before allowing the same, he has signed, at least in one instance, a blank account current which was filled up by the Marshal for $2,000, the same being allowed and paid at the Treasury. His explanation before the committee is characterized as lame, disconnected and unsatisfactory. The committee recommends the abolishment of the present Western District, the annexation of its territory and transfer of its business to the Eastern District, which consolidated district shall have bat one Judge, one District Attorney ant one Marshal.... Adjourned.