Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1874 — LATEST NEWS. [ARTICLE]

LATEST NEWS.

The Situation in France Considered Serious, ' i The Potter Railway Law Declared Valid. Republican Disaster at Estella — Cen. Concha Killed. Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc. THE OLD WORLD. According to Paris dispatches of the 29th the Committee of Thirty had rejected M. Perier’s Constitutional bill by a vote of 18 to 6, and had appointed a sub-committee to draw up a Constitutional bill of its own. On the Ist the Sub-Committec of Thirty had prepared and submitted its bill. Tliis provides for the continuance of the title of “President of the Republicfor a second Chamber; fora personal septennat to terminate with the expiration of MacMahon’s seven-year term, or sooner in case of his death,pr resignation. No provision is made for a successor to the President, thus leaving an opportunity for the restoration of the empire or the monarchy when the septennat ends. The Count de Chambord took the opportunity to urge the claims of royalty. On the 3d inst. lie issued a manifesto to the people, demanding a truce to the divisions which distracted the nation. The Count concluded his address with these words: “I am now, as before, ready. * * * Is it not time to restore prosperity and grandeur to France with the venerable royalty?” French and English papers consider that this manifesto had rendered it impossible for him ever to become King of France. The Government had ordered the suspension of Z’ Union, the paper that first published it. A later dispatch, dated on the sth, says the political situation had again become serious. An attempt to unseat the Ministry on an interpellation in regard to the suspension of Z’ Union had been decided upon by trie Legitimists. MacMahon has said he would not accept their resignations, even should the Government be defeated. On the' 29th the Madrid Government received dispatches saying that Marshal Concha had been killed on the preceding day in- in attack upon the second line of defends' at Estella. The army fell back with a loss of 1,500 in killed and wounded and reoccupied the lines held before. The Government was organizing fifty battalions for immediate and active service. Paris dispatches of the same day say that the death of Concha would dispose of tile claims of Prince Alplionzo. The Carlist account of the disaster reports the Republican loss at 4,000. A story was current, on the Ist, that Marshal Concha was killed at the instigation of Marshal Serrano because he was an Alphonsist. According to Madrid dispatches the Republican troops were greatly excited over the reports of the murder of their comrades taken prisoners at Muro, and threatened bloody reprisals. A dispatch of the 2d says the Carlisle had energetically denied the charge of massacring and mutilating Republican prisoners surrender at Muro. Madrid dispatches of the 4tli state that the national troops had been compelled to abandon the forts outside Bilboa on account of the withdrawal of the forces to reinforce the army of the North. The Carlists were said to have immediately reoccupied these forts. The Spanish Government, .accordingly a Madrid dispatch, had called for an additions 1 levy of 80,000 men to reinforce the army of the North. Gen. Michel Dominigue has been elected President of the Haytien Republic., According to late Russian newspapers destructive fires had occurred in Russian Poland. In the city of Bcrditchev, within four days, nearly 2,000 buildings were burned and most of the rendered homeless. Accor im wi to letters from Shinatra the Acheenese had made an attack on a Dutch fort on the night of March 20, capturing it and overwhelming the garrison. Over 1,000 persons were killed and 4,.W0 Wounded. A resolution offered in the British Parliament by Dr. Butts on July 2, conferring home rule upon Ireland, was very generally debated, and finally defeated by (51 to 458 votes,, According to Berlin dispatches of the 2d the German Government bad decided to send a squadron to Spanish ports to exact compensation for property captured at Cartagena by the Intransigcntes.

THE NEW WORLD, The Secretary of the Treasury has ordered the sale of 11,000,000 in gold each Thursday during the month of July. Late Washington dispatches say that at the heels of the late session a bill passed Congress which provides that an editor of a newspaper can be arrested anywhere and conveyed to Washington for trial upon the tiling of a complaint for libel before any competent tribunal in that city* The question of jurisdiction in the pending cases for violation of the Illinois State Railroad Passenger and Freight Tariff law against the Chicago-& St. Louis Railroad Companylias been transferred to the United States Supreme Court, upon petition of defendants. Representative Sloss, from the Sixth Alabama District, recently shot and probably mortally wounded one Long, of Tuscumbia, Ala., for slandering bls (Sloss’) daughter. Sloss gave himself up to the Sheriff. The appropriation* voted by Congress at its recent session aggregate <177,018,719.40. Last year’s appropriations for similar purposes were <201,389,178.65. A dispatch from Washington of the 30th, says that United States Minister Cushing had made a peremptory demand upon the Spanish authorities for indemnity for the Virginius prisoners and for consequential damages. The New York State Convention of tlberal Republican* will meet at Albany Sept. 9. A boiler in a saw-mill at Carrollton, Mich., exploded on the 30th ult., killing four persons and seriously wounding four others. A few evenings ago Mrs. Harriet Beard, living near Du Quoin, 111., undertook to fill a lighted kerosene lamp. The can exploded and she was fatally burned., > A State Prohibition Convention was held at Bloomington, 111., on the 30th ult. Resolutions were adopted-denouncing the traffic in

liquor as a dishonor to Christian civilization; favoring moral as well as political action by temperance men; demanding the reduction of official salaries and perquisites; advocating the election of President, Vice-Presi-dent and Senators by direct popular vote; commending the course of temperance women in 'their efforts to stem the tide of intemperance and requesting them to continue their efforts iu the same direction until they shall be given tlie ballot, and favoring tlie substitution of greenbacks for National currency and the return to a specie basis as speedily as compatible with the public interests. The following nominations were made: State Treasurer, Maj. Little, of Pana; Superintendent of Schools, Mrs. Jennie F. Willing, of Bloomington, Professor in, the Wesleyan University. The following statement was the condition of the public debt July 1: Six per cent, b0nd551,213,624,700 Five per cent, bonds 510,628,050 Total coin b0nd551,724,352,750 Lawful money debt $14,678,000 Matured debt 3,216.590 Legal-tender notes 382.076,733 Certificates of deposit... 58,760,000 Fractional currency.,... 45.881.205 Coin certificates 22.825,100 Interest 38,939,087 Total debt 52,290.729.555 Cash in TreasuryCoin. ~... $74,205,304 Currency. 14,576,01# Special deposits held for the redemption of certificates of deposit, as provided by law 58,760,000 Total in Trea5ury..5147,541.314 Debt less cash in Trea5ury...;.52,i43,1W8.241 Decrease during the month 2,180.196 Bonds issued to the Pacific Railway Companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding $64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid... 1,938,705 Interest paid by the United States.. 22,286,691 Interest repaid by the transportation of malls. etc 5,252,086 Balance of interest paid by United States 17,134.655 On the Ist Hon. Eugene Hale declined the Postmaster-Generalship. The National Banks have been called upon for a statement of their condition on the 26th ult. Charles F. Conant was, on the Ist, appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Conant hails from New Hampshire. Over 600 clerks had been discharged from the departments at Washington up to the 2d. The Arkansas Constitutional Convention has been carried by a majority estimated at 60,000. All accounts from Southwestern Minnesota and Northwestern lowa seem to agree that the grasshoppers are rapidly destroying everything green in, that section. On the Ist inst. the lowa Republican State Convention met at Des Moines. The following nominations were made: Hon. T. D. Young, Secretary of State ;Capt. P. C. Christy, Stato Treasurer; B. R. Sherman, Auditor; David Secor, Register of the State Land Office; M. E. Cutts, Attorney -General; E. F. Holmes, Clerk of the Supreme Court; J. S. Runnels, Supreme Court Reporter. George C. Heberling, of Jackson, was elected Chairman of the State Central Committee. Resolutions were adopted—favoring free banking and a return to specie payments as speedily as consistent with the material and industrial interests of the country, insisting that the obligations of the Government shall be paid in specie; declaring that the power to regulate Inter-State commerce, whether by railroad or water highways, vests in Congress, and that that body should legislate so as to prevent extortion, and that it should provide for the Improvement of great natural water-ways; that the State has power to regulate railway transportation within its own limits, and demanding the enforcement of the State Railway law; favoring appropriate, legislation for tlie full and equal protection of all citizens; congratulating the party on tlie $27,000,000 reduction in the estimated expenses of the General Government for the current fiscal year; demanding the election of President and Vice-President by a popular .vote; favoring a modification of the .Patent laws; commending the position of the partyin instituting investigations of corruption in office, and favoring the submission of an amendment of the Constitution extending tlie right of suffrage to women to the people for their decision. The Freedmen’s Bank of Washington, aud its branches in various sections of tlie country, went into liquidation on the 2d. Mr. WiELiASuMGCpRMtCKr of New York, who recently died of hydrophobia, was bitten by a dog which, it lias since been ascertained, was not mad, and tlie statement is made that the bite of any dog may induce the complaint. The recent statement that a reduction of 50 per cent, on through’Western freights from New York had been determined on is denied on the authority of a dispatch from New York on the 2d. Christina Ross, while replenishing a vapor stove, a few days ago, accidentally spilled some gasoline. An explosion followed, which so severely burned Miss Ross and Minnie Brammer, her fellow-servant, that they died a few hours after. This occurred at East Cleveland, Ohio. According to a Des Moines dispatch of the Ist the Chicago, Rock Island <fe Pacific Railroad had determined to obey for the present the new Railroad law of lowa, although they deny its justice and constitutionality. The Coroner’s juryion the Mill River disaster have ri'ndercd a verdict. In, it tlie Legislature is censured for indifferent legislation, the millowners for their parsimony, the engineers for blind and obscure directions, the contractors for poor work and the County Commissioners for accepting a botched piece of work, that was so manifestly insecure and illy done. Hon. Marshall Jewell, United States Minister to Russia, has accepted tlie position of Postmaster-General tendered him by the. President, and will return to this country in August next. Tending his arrival First As-slstant-Postmaster-Gen. Marshall has been commissioned. According to a Washington dispatch of the 4th, one of the colored members of the Legislature of the District of Columbia had been arrested for forgery-Fibe-crackzrs caused a destructive fire in -Allegheny! City, Pa., on the 4th, which resuited In the destruction of 100 houses, with a total estimated loss of $250,000. Several of the largest blocks in the city of Pontiac, 111., were burned on the 4th, the fire being the result of throwing lighted firecrackers into a barn-loft. Total loss, $175,000. The Potter Railway law of Wisconsin was, on the 4th, declared valid by Judges Davis, Drummond aud Hopkins, of the United States Court, and the lujupction sought by foreign

stockholders of the Northwestern Railway was dissolved. An appeal was taken to the United States Supreme Court. The formal opening of the new bridge across the Mississippi at St. Louis was celebrated on the 4th. A number of boys celebrating the Fourth in Chicago exploded a glass bottle half-tilled with powder. Fragments of the bottle flew in every direction, killing at once Gilbert McKeon, and severely injuring several other boys. The ninety-eighth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence was very generally celebrated all over the country. The usual fatal accompaniments occurred. THE MARKETS. July ft, 1874. New Yohk.— Cotton— l7!4@l7?»c. Flout— Good to choice, $5.20®6.60; white wheat extra, $6.60@ 6.90. Wheat—'So. 2 Chicago. [email protected]>4. lowa Spring, $1.35®1.37;-No. 2 Milwaukee Spring, [email protected]. Western, [email protected]. Barley- »....@ ... Corn— 7l@7sc. Gate—New Western, 55@59c. Pork— New mess, $18.37‘[email protected]. Lard— Woof—Common to extra, [email protected]. Beeves— sll.so® 12.50. Ilogs— Dressed, $7.62>/,@7.75. Sheep— Live, [email protected]. Chicago.— Beeves— Choice, [email protected]; good, [email protected]; medium, [email protected]; butchers' stock, [email protected]; stock cattle, [email protected]. Hogs— Live, [email protected]. Sheep— Good to choice, [email protected]. Butter— Choice yellow, 21@24c. Eggs— Fresh, 11@12%c. Port-Mess, new, [email protected]. Lard —[email protected]. Flour— White winter extra-, [email protected]; spring extra, [email protected]. WheatSpring No. 2, [email protected]. Corn— No. 2, 59® 59‘/,c. Oats-No. 2, 42'/,@43c. Rye— No. 2,82 c. Barley— No. 2, . Wool —Tub-washed, 45@50c; fleece, washed, 40®44c; fleece, unwashed, 30@33c; polled, 37@39c. Lumber— First-clear, [email protected]; second-clear, $47.0041.49.00; common boards, $11.00@12:00; fencing, $11.00®12.00; “A” shingles, $3.25®3.50; lath, [email protected]. Cincinnati.— PZour—ss.6o®s.9o. Wheat— sl.lß @1.20. Corn— 63®Goc. Bye—B9@9oc. Oats-47 @s3c. Barley—s... . Pork- [email protected]. Lard— lo*i@llMc. St. Louis.— Cattle— Fair to choice. [email protected]. Hogs—Ute, $5.0066.00. Flour— XX Fall, $5.00® 5.50. WAsat—NO. 2 Red Fall, [email protected]. ComNo. 2, 56@57c. Oats— No. 2, 48@49c. Bye—79 @Boc. Barley—Pork— Mess, $18.75 @19.00. Lard— loi4@ll l /,c. Milwaukee.— Flour— Spring XX. [email protected]. WAeat—Spring, No. 1, $1.21 1 [email protected]; No. 2, $1.19 @1.19?.. Corn— No. 2, 57@57J/,c. Oats— No. 2, 43 @43‘/,c. Pye—No. 1,-88@89c. Barley— No. 2, $....@.... Cleveland.— Wheat— No. 1 Red, [email protected]; No. 2 Red, [email protected]. Com— 7o@7lc. Oats—No. 1, 52@55c. Detroit.— Wheat— Extra, [email protected]. Com—--66@67c. Oats—49@soc. Toledo.— Wheat— Amber Michigan, $1.90® 1.21; No. 2 Red, [email protected]>4. Com-Mixed, Biteealo.— Beeves— [email protected]. Hogs— Live, [email protected]. Sheep— Live, [email protected]. East Liberty— Beeves—Best, [email protected]; medium, $5.50®6.00. Hogs— Yorkers, $5.80@ 6.20; Philadelphia, [email protected]. Sheep— Best, [email protected]; good, [email protected].