Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1874 — LATEST NEWS. [ARTICLE]

LATEST NEWS.

Anticipated Trouble in the French Assembly. How the Sultan of Morocco Quells an Insurrection. Independent State Conventions in Illinois and Indiana. A General Endian War Expected in Texas. m ■ ■* ft' The Compromise Currency Bill Bejected by the House. Interesting Personal, Political and General News. THE OLD WORLD. Dispatches of the 11th from the Spanish frontier say that several Carlist bands in the Basque provinces had revolted against Don Carlos and demanded that the war should cease. The Don bad ordered that upon capture they should be shot. The Carlists shot two officers, on the 12th, who had mutinied at Durango. Orders had been issued to the Generals in command of the National troops to pardon all Carltsts who should give in their adhesion to the Government. The feeling in the French capital on the Bth was very gloomy. The proposal for a dissolution of the Assembly had been signed by 125 Deputies. In the French Assembly, on the 10th, the Ministry were defeated on a provision of the Electoral bill fixing the age of electors. A vote of censure was moved in the French Assembly on the 13th against the Minister of the Interior, because he had failed to prevent recent disturbances. This was defeated by a small majority. The Left Center had resolved to introduce a bill for the dissolution of the Assembly. This would be followed, says a French paper, by civil war. A terrible steamboat accident lately occurred on the Volga, in Russia. Two Bteamers were racing when one of them, the Belisarius, exploded her boiler, killing sixteen and wounding sixty-nine. Fifteen passengers also jumped overboard and were drowned. The Sultan of. Morocco, according to telegrams received in London on the Bth, had, finally quelled the insurrection in the city of Fez. A heavy cannonade had been opened upon the place, and ninety persons were killed. The insurgents surrendered and the Sultan granted them amnesty. TnE Pope received the American pilgrims on the 9th. On the 12th the Pope was presented with *IOO,OOO anda coffer of gold from American mines. A letter from the Catholic Bishop es Laranda has been published in the French papers, giving the particulars of a recent massacre es Christians at Tong King, China. The letter states that 10,000 persons had been strangled, burned or drowned. The meeting of the International Sanitary Congress at Vienna has been postponed to Jan. 7, 1875. The rumor prevailed In Loudon on the 18th that the British Government had offered its services to settle the differences between the Argentine Republic and Brazil. A Geneva dispatch of the 13th announces the appointment of M. Bodenheimer as President ot the Swiss Confederation for the ensuing year. An English man-of-war recently captured a slaver having on board 225 negroeß bound for Madagascar. King Victor Emmanuel prorogued the Italian Parliament on the 13th. THE NEW WORLD. According to a Havana dispatch of the 11th the Insurgent Cols. Belancourt, Jeminez and Rodraa had been captured just as they were leaving a New York bark in the Bahama Channel in an open boat. They were bearing correspondence and commissions to"the insurgents. A caucus of Republican Congressmen was held on the night of the Bth. The financial question Mas not considered. A new Congressional National Republican Committee was ordered. The hearing in the bribery case, of. ex-Bcn-ator Pomeroy, of Kansas, has been postponed until July 27. According to San Francisco dispatches of the Bth Grover (Democrat) beat Tolman 400 votes for Governor of Oregon. The vote for Congressman was very close. Judge Zane, of the Sangamon Circuit Court, has refused to sign the bill of exceptions presented by the defendants in the case of The People vs. The Chicago <fc St. Louis Railroad Company, and orders have been issued for the issue of an execution for the Judgment lately recovered. On the 12th the counsel for the Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company, obtained from the Supreme Court, in session at Mt. Vernon, 111., a supersedeas of the judgment rendered by the Sangamon County Circuit Court under the Illinois Railroad law. The supersedeas was applied for on the ground, first, that the case was taken out of the jurisdiction of the State epurt by the writ of certiorari issued from the United States District Court; second, that the Railroad law violates the Constitutions of Illinois and of the United States; third, that dc fendants were entitled to some bill of exceptions. A Washington dispatch of the 9th says theBoard of Indian Commissioners had not re signed in a body as previously reported. The Board consisted of tec Commissioners, of whom six had resigned. The remaining members have been called together for the' purpose of reorganizing the Board. The President will shortly fill the vacancies occasioned by the resignationsTub first session of the National AntiSlavery Reunion 4’** held in Chicago on the 9th. A large number of original abolitionists were in attendance. Vice-President Wilson was elected President. Addresses were made by Gov. Beveridge, of Illinois, and others. The reunion was closed on the night of-the 12th after four days’ continuance.’' previous to adjournment resolutions ware adopted—thanking God that they had lived to see the land one of impartial liberty ; expressing grateful remembrance of . the labors ot those of their comrades who

had died, and sending words of cheer to those who remained; demanding for freedmen complete possession and enjoyment of all civil and social rights, and urging their Christian and educational elevation. * A committee was appointed to publish a memorial volume of the reunion. Mrs. Yandenberg, of Cincinnati, used coal oil to hasten the burning of an obstinate fire the other evening, with fatal results to herself and serious results to her husband, father and mother, who were badly injured while tearing the clothes from her body. Mrs. V. was married on the Tuesday preceding the accident. The War Department has information of a movement on the part of the Comanche and Cheyenne Indians to • inaugurate a general war in Texas. The Rhode Island Legislature had taken four ballots for United States Senator up to the evening of the 10th. Gen. Burnside was the leading candidate. Mary Hein, of Cairo, 111., undertook, on the 9tb, to kindle a fire with coal oil. The foolish girl was fatally burned. The Michigan State Republican Convention will be held at Lansing on the 26th of August. In the Alexander County (Ill.) Circuit Court on the 9th, in the Case of the Railroad Commissioners against the Illinois Central Railroad Company for extortion, etc., Judge Baker overruled the demurrer of the defendant, aud sustained nineteen of the twenty-one counts in the declaration. Among the objections overruled was one denying, the cons.titu.' tionality of the Illinois law. The Illinois Independent State Convention was held at Springfield on the 10th. The platform adopted was substantially what is known as the Decatur platform. David Gore, of Macoupin, was nominated for State Treasurer, and S. M. Ettcr, of Bloomington, for Superintendent of Public Instruction. A State Central Committee was elected, as follows: First District, Aug. Arnold: Second. <l. G. Mathien;-ThirdrUC. Parks; Fourth, Thomas Bishop; Fifth, Fisher Hills; Sixth, J. M. Allen; Seventh, H. R. Conklin; Eighth, A. W. Lester; Ninth, G. W. Wright; Tenth, J. M. Darnell; Eleventh, J. W. Loomis; Twelfth, J. B. Ricks; Thirteenth, J. Sell; Fourteenth, James R. Scott; Fifteenth,H. Park; Sixteenth, L. H. Thomas; Seventeenth, Lewis Solomon; Eighteenth, S. J. Davis; Nineteenth, John Landrigan. The Indiana Independent State Convention met at Indianapolis on the 10th, adopted a platform, and made nominations for the October election. The following were the candidates selected: Secretary of State, N. S. White (Dem.), of Vigo; Auditor, E. Henderson (Dem.), of Morgan; Treasurer, N. C. Bennett (Rep.) of Steuben; Attor-ney-General, J. A. S. Mitchell (Dem.), of Elk hart; Judge of the Supreme Coart, H. P. Biddle (Rep.), of Cass; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Clark Davis (Rep.), of Henry. The convention adopted the name of “independent.” The following Central Committee was appointed: First District, J. R. Eldcrfield, Vanderburg County; Third, J. Q. A. Newson; Fifth, B. F. Bundy, Randolph; Sixth, A. B. Pendleton, Johnson; Seventh, B. D. Garrett, Marion; Eighth, Barber, Vigo; Ninth, E. 81usher, Warren; Eleventh, Aaron Jenkins, Wabash; Twelfth, B. B. Snow, Adams; Thirteenth, Merrill Williams, Marshall. The Indiana State Farmers’ Association was organized in Indianapolis on the 10th by the election of Richard Gregg as President, C. W. Green as Secretary, and Theo. W. Reese as Treasurer. J. C. Bancroft J)avis, Assistant Secretary of State, has been confirmed as United States Minister to Germany. A train of cars crossed the St. Louis bridge on the evening of the 9th. '' v . / •_ A State convention of the Liberal Republicans, Democrats and Anti-Monopolists of Minnesota will be held in St. Paul, Minn., on the 23d of September. The labor difficulties in the vicinity of Nelsonvillc, Ohio, were assuming large proportions on the 11th. Theplaces of the striking miners had been filled by colored men from the South, and a collision was momentarily expected. During the night shots were exchanged. The Governor had promised to send troops to suppress all riotous demonstrations. - In answer to an Inquiry by leading Grangers in regard to the enforcement of the Railroad Tariff law of lowa, Gov. Carpenter says: Should the railroad a attempt to overthrow it by appealing to the court* I ahull not hesitate in the duty which will then be upon me, to tee to it that all the authority possessed by the Executive is invoked to secure its enforcement. In the enforcement of this duty the law associates with me the other members of the Executive Council, each of whom ia entirely in •ympalhy with me in respect to the line of our duty in the case of resistance by the railroad companies. According to Washington dispatches of the IBth the Currency bill was defeated because of the-belief that it, would be better to have no action on the currency matter than to have a veto. Gov. Dix, of New Tork, lias signed the bill recently passed by the New York Legislature, giving to William Baxter *35,000 and to D. P. bobbins' i"15,000, on condition that they shall place upon the canals ten -steam canal freight boats similar to those run by them during the last season. The condition of the growing crops on June lin the States of Iliineis, Indiana, lowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin was, according to the National Crop Reporter, nearly 3 per cent, above a good average condition. In Illinois and Missouri the condition of the wheat was very high; in lowa 5 per cent, above the average and in other States below. The oats average in the same States was 6 percent: below a good average, Missouri being the only State reporting above an average. The area of barley sown was, in round number, 580,000 acres, an increase over last year Of 262 acres. The area of rye is placed at a little less than 337,000 acres, a failing off of 10,150 acres. Special returns in relation to the tobaccocrop in Kentucky, Southern Ohio, Indiana and Tennessee were such as to make the outlook a very bad one. Aside from late frosts, the bug and the fly and the insects had been very destructive. The following resolution was adopted by a convention of delegates to an Independent State Convention held at Topeka, Kan.,on the 10th: . ’ Resolved, That we herehy join with the Reform Convention of May ST in callingaNomlnaUng Com vention to be held at Topeka on the stfi day of August, 1874, to elect a Slate Central Committee, make a declaration of principles, nominate a State ticket, and do all that any honest conv.enlion may do. The population of- Chicago, according to the new directory, is about 510,000. Late San Francisco dispatches announce the death, on the 9th, of Cochise, the Apache chief.

THE MARKETS. Junk 15, 1874. New York.— Cotton— l7X@lßc. /"tour—Good to choice, $6.05®6.30; white, wheat extra, (8-30® 6.60. Wheat- No. 2 Chicago. [email protected])4; lowa Spring, [email protected]; No. 2 Milwaukee Spring, $1.4501.48. Rye-Wet tern, $1.02©1.05. Barley - $1.5001.55. Com— B6@B7‘/Sc. Oats— New Western, 62066 c. New mess, $17.90018.00. Lard — llH©lls£C. Wool— Common to extra, 45©68c. Beeves—flu. 25@ 12.25. Hogs— Dressed, $7,250 7.37)4. Sheep —Live (clipped), $5.50©6.50. Chicago.— Beeves— Choice, $5.9006.20: good, $5.6505.80; medium, $4.75©5.50; butchers’ stock,' *3.75©5.25; stock cattle, $3.50©4.75. Hogs— Live, $5.3005.90. Sheep —Good to choice (shorn), $5.25© 6.25. Butter— Choice yellow, 21@24c. Eggs— Fresh, 12'/4@l3c. Pork- Mess, new,sl7.l2'/,©17.25. Lard—slo.osoll.lo. Flour— White winter extra, $8.75® 9.00; spring extra, $5.12'/,06.00. Wheats- Spring No. 2, $1.18)401.19. Corn-No. 2, 61)4®61Xc. Cots—No. 2, 46H046&C. Rye— No. 2,84 c. Barley— No. 2, $1.50®1.35. Wool—' Tub-washed, 47053 c; fleece, washed. 40®44c; fleece, unwashed, 26©32c: pulled, 37®89c. Lumber— First-clear, $50.000 55.00; second-clear, $47.000 49.00; common boards, sll [email protected]; fencing, $11.0f©12.00; “A" shingles, [email protected]; lath, $2.2502,37)4. Cincinnati.— Flour— s6.loo6.3s. Wheat —$1.28 01.30. Com— 6s®67c. Rye- 94®95c. Oats- 50 ®sßc. Barley— sl.4s®l.so. Pork— sl7.sool7 75. Lard- 10)4@ll)ic. St. Loins.— Cattle— Fair to choice, $5.00®6.50. Hogs—Uve, $4 5005.60. Flour— XX Fall, $5,250 5.75. Wi«a(-No.2Red Fall, $1.35®1.38. Com— No. 2,59®60c. Oats—Bo. 2, 48®48)4c. Rye— 7s ®7Bc. Barley— $1.4501.50. Pork—Mess, SIB.OO 018.25. iard—lo)4©ll)4c. Milwaukee. — Flour —Spring XX, $5.70®5.90. Wheat- Spring, No. 1, *1.2401-25; No. 2, $1.23 01.23)4. Corn-—No. 2,63®63)4c. Oats— No. 2,45 045)4c. Rye —No. 1, 84®85c. Barley—Bo. 2, $1.3001.35. Cl.EVEl.Ain>. — Wheat —No. 1 Red, $1.37)401.38; No. 2 Red, $1.3101.32. Com—7o®7lc. Cate—No. 1, 53®55c. Detroit. — Wheat— No. 1, $1.4701.47(4. Com—--65®07c. Cate-50©52c. Toledo.—lPAeaf—Amber Mich., $1.34)401.35; No. 2 Red, $1.3401.34)4. Com—Mixed, 67)4®68c. Oats— sl@sl)4 c. Bueealo. — Beeves — $5.25®6.40. Hogs Live, $6.5006.00. Sheep —Live (clipped), $4.7506.00. East Liberty.— Beeves— Best, $6.40®6.60: medium, $5.87)406.00. Hogs— Yorkers, $5.2505.50; Philadelphia, $5.8506.00. Sheep— Best (clipped), $5.40®5.65; good, $4.2504.75. CONGRESSIONAL. In the Senate, on the Bth, conference reports were made and agreed to on the disagreeing votes of the two houses upon the hill to revise, consolidate, and amend the laws relating to pensions and on the bill to increase the pensions of soldiers and sailors totally disabled... .Bills were passed—authorizing any Circnit Judge to designate the lime, of holding District or Circuit Court, and to designate the District Judge to attend and hold court in a district not his own; for the better organization of the District Courts of the United States within the State of Louisiana; House bill to provide for the publication of the revised statutes of the United States.... The Moiety hill was taken up, and after considerable debate the amendment of the Finance Committee authorizing United States Attorneys to examine hooks, invoices or papers of defendants was rejectedyeas 21, nay s 26... .Adjourned. In the House, on the Bth, hills were introduced—to aboiish the Western District of Arkansas; to increase the revenue; to restrain gambling; imposing a tax of 20 per cent, on all sales of stocks, bonds, gold, etc.... Bills were passed—substitute for the House bill to authorize medals commemorating the 100th anniversary of the first meeting of the Continental Congress and the Declaration of Independence; for the admission of Colorado as a State—l7o to 65; to incorporate the First Presbyterian Chnrch at Salt Lake City, Utah... .Conference reports were agreed to on the bill to revise the Pension laws and on the bill regulating pensions for total disabilities.... The Louisiana contested election ease of Sheridan and Pinchback was taken up and debated, and a resolution was offered, as a substitute- for the minority resolution, tbat Pinchback is prima fade entitled to the Beat.... Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 9th, a joint resolution was passed providing for the termination of the treaty of July 17,1858, between. Belgium and the United Stateß....A bill for the government of the District of Columbia was reported from the Special Joint Committee to investigate the management of the government of the District... .A bill was introduced and referred to incorporate the Commercial Railway Company, with a capita! of $200,000,000, to construct and operate a railway, with four or more tracks, from New York city to the cities of Chicago and St. Louis, dividing its main line at such point as may be found best to reach said cities, with the right to extend its road from Chicago to any point on the Mississippi River above St. Louis, the road to be commenced within two years and finished within twelve years of the enactment of the bi 11.... The conference report on the Army Appropriation hill was agreed t0.... At his own request Mr, Wadieigh was excused from farther service on.the Committee on Public Lands, and Mr. Harvey was appointed to fill the vacancy ....The bill to amend the Customs Revenue law and to repeal moieties was taken np and several amendments were disposed of. ...Adjourned. In the House, on the 9th, the majority resolutions in the Louisiana contested election case, declaring that the testimony was not sufficient to show the election of either Pinchback or Sheridan, and permitting the committee to take further testimony, were agreed t 0... A hill was passed to abolish the Western Judicial District of Arkansas and to annex it to the Eastern District .... A substitute for the Geneva Award bill was reported, and debated at considerable length.... An evening session was held for general debate.... Among the proceedings in the House on the Bth was the rejection of a motion to suspend the rnles and take from the Speaker’s table the Senate Civil Rights bill and refer it to the Judiciary Committee, with the right to report at any time. The vote stood, yea? 138, nays 86-not two-thirds in the affirmative. In the Senate, on the 10th, a bill was introduced and referred to abolish the Board of Indian Commissioners...,A bi’.l was passed to change the time for holding Circuit and District Courts of the United Slates for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, at Oshkosh, to the second Tuesday in July of each year... .The memorial of the Ohio Editorial Association, in regard to postage on newspapers, was presented and referred .. Debate was resumed on the bill to amend the Customs Revenue law aud to repeal moieties, and_ after several amendments were disposed of, some of which were agreed to, the bill as amended was finally passed—3B to 3,...Adjourned. In the House, on the 10th, a bill was reported and referred for the relief of the owners and purchasers of land sold fo|. direct taxes in insurrectionary Slates'.. .The conference report on the Army Appropriation bill was agreed 1.0.... .The Geneva Award bill was taken up, and after a spirited and somewhat personal —discussion Mr. Butler’s substitute for the Senate bill—providing, first, for the payment of claims for direct losses; second, for war preminms, and third, insurance companies that incurred direct losses—was agreed t 0—1.32 to 101—and the title of the bill was changed to read, “ to provide for a just and equitable distribution of the moneys paid in pursuance of the Geneva award”... .Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 11th, a memorial was presented and referred of workingmen of Pennsylvania, asking for a restoration of the 10 per cent, duty on iron and steel, and for free banking . .The report of the Conference Committee on the Currency Dill was read, and a lengthy debate ensued, Messrs. Morton, Sherman, Harvey and Logan favoring the report, and Messrs. Bout well, Morrill (VL), Frelinghuyscn, Joneaahd Thurman opposing its adoption.... Adjourned. In the House, on the 11th, the Senate bill to change the time for holding Circuit and District Courts of the United States in Wisconsin, at Oshkosh, was passed.... The Senate amendment to the House Vill to ametui Section 1W of the act of the 18th of Augnst, 1856* to regulate the diplomatic, and consular system of the United States, was concurred in... .The Sundry Civil Appropriation hill (mm,618) vi-as considered in Committee of the Whole ...Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 12th, several bills were reported from committees ahd placed on the calendar....An adverse report was made on the Senate hill for farther protection in the elections for President, Vice-President and members of Congress ... The amendments of the House to the bill to amend the law* relating to patents, trade-marks and copyrights were concurred In, and the bill was passed . .The report of the Conference Committee on the Finance bill was further considered, and after considerable debate the compromise Currency bill was passed 32 to 23... -The Poetofficc Appropriation bill was taken up.... Executive session and adjournment. In the House, on the 12th, a bill was passed appropriating $500,000 for the relief of persona suffering from the overflow of the lower Mississippi, the Tomblgbee, Warrior, Alabama and

Tennceeec Rivers.... The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was considered in Committee of the Whole, and several proposed amendments were disposed of. Among the amendments rejected was one appropriating (26,000 to enable the President to carry out the civil service rules—yeas 48, nays 108.... Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 13th, a report was made from the Committee on Privileges and Elections concerning the charges against Senalor Mitchell, of Oregon, and it was stated that the committee was of the unanimous opinion that the ■ charges contained nothing against the Senator requiring action on the part of the Senate.... Among the bills passed were: House bill to provide for the care and custody of persons convicted in courts of the United States who hove or may become insane while in prison; House bill providing for the collection of moneys due the United States from the Pacific Railroad Companies, with amendments.... A motion was agreed to—--38 to 17—insisting on the Senate amendments to the Finance bill, and a new Conference Committee was appointed, consisting of Messrs. Wright, Ferry (Mich.) and Stevenson... .A motion was also adopted that the Senate insist upon its amendments to the bill repealing moieties, and Messrs. Scott, Howe and Bayard were appointed a Conference Committee... .Adjourned. In the House, on the 13th, several of the Senate amendments to the bill repealing moieties were rejected and a Conference Committee was appointed, composed of Messrs. E. H. Roberts, Sheldon and W00d.... The conference report on the Currency hill was taken up, and after debate the report was rejected—yeas 108, nays 146—and a motion to refer the subject to a new Conference Committee was agreed 10— 198 to 48—and Messrs. Dawes, McCreery and Marshall were appoiated as members of such committee.... The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was further considered in Committee of the Whole, and an item was inserted appropriating $50,C00 for printing the agricultural ‘‘reports for 1873-4.... Adjourned.