Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1874 — LATEST NEWS. [ARTICLE]

LATEST NEWS.

Continued Legislative Complications in France. Tlie Grasshopper Infliction in Southwestern Minnesota. Serious Railway Accident in Connecticut. ~ T-. “ ■■■ -I ■ •■■ ... -J Cheyennes, Comanches and Kiowas on the War-path. Other Interesting Domestic, Personal and Political Intelligence. THE OLD WORLD. " Ox tlic 7tli the French Assembly passed the Municipal Electoral hill. Paris dispatches of the same date say that the Moderate and Extreme Left with 120 Legitimist Deputies had '-combined'.to 'jpg throw the Ministry. Affairs culminated in the 'French Assembly on the Bth. A motion that the Assembly regretted the suspension of T'Union was promptly voted down by 170 to 80, the Left not voting. Thereupon M. Paris, of the Right Center, moved “ that the Assembly, resolving to uphold tlic septennial powers. conferred upon Marshal MacMahon, President of the Republic, and furthermore reserving tlie questions submitted to the Committee on Constitutional Bills, passes to tlic order of tlie day.” Announcement was made that the Government identified itself with this motion. Tlie motion was rejected toy 331 yeas to 368 nays. Immediately after tlie adjournment a Cabinet council was lield, at winch the Minister's tendered their resignations, which President MacMalion peremptorily refused to accept. Dispatches of tlie 9tli say that tlie Republican papers of that date had advised tlie dissolution of the Assembly on account of its powerlessness to conduct affairs as at present existing. A message from the President laid been read to the Assembly, in which lie informed that body .that he is President and. that lie would hold control Until the expiration of tlie septennat, and suggested tlie necessary legislation to secure to tlie country defined institutions, calm and prosperity. Upon the conclusion of tlie reading of tlie message a Deputy entered a motion for tlie dissolution of tlie Assembly, and that the motion be declared urgent. The demand for urgency was negatived by a large majority, and the motion to dissolve was referred to a committee. San Francisco journals containing artides'-hy Roehefort had been seized in the Postofllcc. According to Paris dispatches of the 10th tlic Committee of Thirty had held an important meeting with the Minister of the Interior, at which tlie latter gave in his adlic-' sion to tlie hill drawn up by the committee. The Legititimists were said to he irritated by tlie President’s recent message, and would oppose the personal septennat. According to a Paris dispatch of the 11th the FigarohiH been suspended for inciting hostility to tlie Assembly. Ma obi p dispatches report that 4,000 Carlists attacked Teriiel on the 4th, who were driven back with considerable loss. Many points held by this Republicans were being threatened by tlie Carlists. Santander being menaced, tlie authorities liad telegraphed for aid, and several war vessels had been dispatched, with instructions to slicjl "tlie approaches to the city.on the appearance of tlie insurgents. According to Madrid dates of tlie Bth the Republican army had been reorganized into two corps, preparatory to active operations in tlie field. A dispatch of the 10th says that tlie Carlist Gen. Dorregary liad issued a manifesto justifying tlie shooting of Republican prisoners. A DriiLix dispatch of the 6th says all tlic operatives in tlie linen mills of Belfast had struck for higher wages. Ox the morning of tlie 7th a collision occurred on the "Lancashire A Yorkshire Railway, by which five persons were killed and several injured. « *- According to a late London dispatch, England liad demanded $8,000,000 of Bpa!n as indemnity "forTts massacre "of British subjects captured on tlie Virginiiis. . Oxi.v half a million natives of India were .dependent-on Government charity on the Bth, according to a Calcutta dispatch. Lath advices from Australia report that tlie clipper ship British Admiral was sunk, on the ,sth of June, on King’s Island, in the Pacific. Of tlie eighty-eight persons on hoard, only nine escaped. Ox tlie ltftli a London aeronautic professor was instantly kilted by falling with a newlyinvented flying machine from a balloon in mid-air. The contrivance did not work as he expected.

THE DEW WORLD. The Postofflre Department Issued 632,733,420 adhesive stamps during the year ending June 30, the total value of wliieli was" #24,“000,000. _ A BPR£i-Al. from Pembina says that a party of Sioux Indians hail attaeked the village of St. Joseph on the sth, killing four persons and carrying into captivity several children. Ccst Kit’s expedition to the ' Black Hills started on the morning of the 4th. Hisorders prohibited tiring on the savages unless they showed unmistakable signs of hostility: A pyrotechnic display in Washington Square, New York, on the evening of the 6th had nearly reached its end, when a ..spark from a rocket fell in the midst of a pile of fireworks, causing a premature explosion, which sent the rocket*, Roman candles and bombshells flying in all directions among the spectators, creating a terrible panic. A large number of persons Were more or less injured! T ~ V The misplacing of a switch near Stony Creek bridge, Conn., on the Shore Line Railroad, on the morning of the 6th, threw the entire train—a baggage-ear and five passenger curs—the engine excepted, off the bridge to the bottom of the creek, instantly killing Superintendent Wilcox, and more or less in', iuring over l(|l passengers. Tub Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company will conform to the provisions of the lowa Railroad law, under pi-ot^st. In response to a letter from a number of citizens, says an Augusta ((!■-) dispatch of the 7th, Alex.,H. Stephens had announced his

determination not to be a candidate for reelection to Congress on account of failing health. ** A Washington dispatch of the 7th says of the 5 per cent. National Bank reserve required to be kept iu the Treasury, $9,000,000 liad been received, which is One-half of tlie total amount to be deposited under tlie new law. Applications for bank charters liad reached $3,000,000, and tho circulation surrendered $2,000,000. The Lincoln (Neb.) Land Office lias been transferred by direction of the President to Bloomington, in the same State. The Rt. Rev. Richard V. Whelan, Catholic Bishop of tile Diocese of Wheeling, W. Va., died at Baltimore on the 7th. The grain inspection fees in Illinois were reduced throughout tlie State on the 7tli by tlie Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners, who have ordered that tlic word “new”’ shall be inserted in each certificate of inspection of a newly-harvested crop of wheat, rye and barley'until tlic Ist day of September; of oats until the Ist day of August, and of corn until the 20th day of April of caeli year. Dispatches of the 7th from tlie Commissioner of Indian Affairs say that a serious outbreak liad occurred among tlic Indians in tlic Indian Territory. The Cheyennes, Comanches and Kiowas to the number of 2,000 .had gone upon tlie war-path, and were coin-" mitting depredations attended with unusual barbarities. Five war parties were thought to be moving from the north fork of tlie Canadian River in tlie direction of tlie trail from tlie agency to Caldwell, Kan. The agent telegraphed that tlie Indians had said they would clean out every white man and ranche iu-tliat region. An urgent demand liad been made for troops with which to repel the marauders. Yei.i.ow fevek and small pox were prevailing extensively throughout Cuba, according to late Havana advices. ' A dispatch from Madison, Wis., of tlic Btli says that on Shat morning tlie Attorney-Gen-eral hud tiled iu tlie Supreme Court of that State a bill in equity, complaining of violation of the laws of tlie State regulating jailroads by tiie Chicago & Northwestern and the Chicago, Milwaukee A St. Paul Railroads, and a petition that they be enjoined by the court to obey said law so far as it had been held valid by the late decision of tlie United States Circuit Court. An appeal from that decision had been perfected. According to information received at Cheyenne on the Bth a battle had been fought with tlie Sioux about seventy-live miles from Camp Brown, in which fifty Indians were killed and wounded and 100 horses captured. Three soldiers were killed and three wouuded. TnE Golden Age of tlie 9th, according to a New York dispatch, contained an editorial taunting Plymouth Church with its continued silence in respect to tlie Tilton-Beecher scandal. It concludes asfollows: “The fact admits of only one construction, and whoever thinks draws tlie inevitable conclusion. There is a silence more oppressive and ominous than that of death. Tlie American people now know what that silence is.” Ex-Gov. Shepherd, of tlie District of Columbia, according to a Washington dispatch of tlie Bth, had appeared before the Grand Jury of the District to procure an indictment of Mr. Dana, of the New York Sun, for libel. An attempt would be made to arrest Mr. Dana and bring him to the District for trial under tiie provisions Of tlie Poland law, passed at the late session of Congress. TnE Democratic Congressional Convention at Bucyros, Oliip, on tlie 2ootli ballot, after a two days’ session, on the Bth nominated John Cowan, of Ashland County, for Congress. The great single-scull race of five miles, at Springfield, Mass., between Brown, of Halifax, and Scliarff, of Pittsburgh, Pa., was rowed on tlie Btli, in' presence of a large and excited assemblage. The Canadian won the race. An attempt was made, according to a Madison (Wis.) dispatch of the 9tli, to bribe ChiefJustice Ryan tlic day before, by sending him a letter containing SIOO. A aisPATCii from Cairo, 111., of tlie 9th says that that city had been visited l>y an earthquake shock that afternoon. Ox the afternoon of tlic 9th the mail ami express ear attached to an cnst.ward-bound train on the Atlantic, Mississippi A Ohio Railway was entirely destroyed by fire, about nine miles west of Petersburg. —A tei.eoham washout to tiie War Depart, ment, on tlie 9.tli, by Gov. Davis, of Minnesota, appealing to the Government in behalf of the starving pcbple of tiie State whose crops for tlie last two years had l>ecn destroyed by grasshoppers. A Washington dispatch of the 9th says it had been decided by the Interior Department that, after a homesteader has completed a term of five years, a further residence is not required to entitle him to a patent; also, that residence in a double house built on tlje dividing line between adjoining homesteads is a residence ill compliance with the law. A young daughter of George Fulton, of ' Huntington, Ind., was burned to death on tlie evening of tlie 10th by tlie explosion of a can of kerosene with which she‘‘attempted to kindle a fire. By tlie capsizing of a yacht in the harbor of Atlantic City, N. J., on the afternoon of the 10th six prominent citizens of Philadelphia were drowned. A Fort Garry (Manitoba) dispatch of a recent date says that tlie Ministry had been defeated by the passage of a resolution declaring a want of confidence. A new Ministryhad lieen formed. A St. Paul telegram of the 10th states that Gov. Davis, of Minnesota, liad issued a circular calling upon every county iu the State to render aid to those parts of tlie State which have been afflicted witli grasshoppers. A Brooklyn dispatch of the 10th says that Mr. Beecher, so long ago as tlie 29th ultimo, had demanded of Plymouth Church an investigation into tlie charges preferred by Mr. Tilton, and that said investigation was still pending. ‘ A New YaKKjlispatrh of tlie lltli says that Gov. Dix liad requested Mayor Havcmeyer to reply to the charges preferred against him. A TTRE brokc out on the evening of the 10th in the Wceliawken oil docks, Hoboken, N. J., during a violent thunder-storm, supposed to have been caused by lightning. It was not extinguished until the evening of the 11th. Over $700,00)1 wyrtli of properly, was destroyed. St. Paul dispatches of the 11th say that the grasshoppers in Southwestern Minnesota have been lately reinforced by immense swarms from Northern Minnesota and Northern Da-

kota. In Manitoba, in tlic region around Fort Garry, every green thing liad been destroyed. A Cleveland (Ohio) dispatch says that oh tlie 12th tlie roof of Hovey Block, in that city, had fallen in, killing one man and seriously wounding two others. The roof fell during tlie prevalence of a heavy rain-storm. The 12th was celebrated by tlic Orangemen of New York and vicinity without dieturbance. A dozen lodges joined in tlie procession. A large portion of the business part of the town of Strcator, lU., was consumed on tlie morning of tlie 12th. A Washington dispatch of tlie 12th says that, according to the Washington Star, VicePresident Wilson did cot intend to resign, as had been reported. Gen. W. S. Hillyer, formerly Provost-Marshal-General on Gen. Grant's staff, died in Washington on the 12th. THE MARKETS. July 13, 1874. New York.— Cotton—Flour— Good to choice, white wheat extra,sH.ss(n> 6.75. Wheat—So. 2 Chicago', $1.:i0(3ji.32!4; lowa spring, [email protected]; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, $1.36<®1.36)4. Rye— Western, [email protected]!4. Harley Corn— 7s@77c. Oats— New Western, 59<®62c. Fork—Slew mess, $18.75@1!1.00. Lard— U!4@ll%c. Wool— Domestic fleece, 45® 68c. Beeves—% [email protected]. Hogs— Dressed, $8.12)4 @8.25. Sheep —Live. s4.2jfefj.2s. Chicago.— .Beers#—Choice, [email protected]; good, [email protected]; medium, [email protected]; butchers' stock, [email protected]; stock cattle, [email protected]. Ilogs— Live. [email protected]. Sheep— Good to choice, $4.25®5.25. Rutter— Choice yellow, 22® 25c. Fags— Fresh. 12)4@t3!4c. Pork— Mess, new, fl8.(IO©l!).0O. £«r<t-$11.:[email protected] —White winter extra, [email protected]; spring extra, *[email protected]. Wheat— Spring, No. 2, $1.14*[email protected]. Pom—No. 2. (SllMl'Ac. Oats —No. 2, 47@47!4c. Rye— No. 2, 87@88c. Rar/ey —No. 2, Wool— Tub-washed. 4r>@s2e; .fleece, washed, 40@14e; fleece, unwashed, 30@33c; pulled, 37@39c. Lumber - First clear, $50.00® 55.00; second clear, [email protected]; Common Boards. [email protected]; Fencing. $11.00@12-00; ‘A” Shingles, [email protected]; Lath, [email protected] 1 / 4. Cincinnati. —F10 iir— 55.50©.5.75. Wheat —$1.10 @1.15. Corn— 63@67c. Bye-t«@i«c. Oatt-tm 56c. Harley — . ....<&. .. .. rork —[email protected]. Lard— ll@l2!4c. St. Louis. — Cattle— Fair to choice, [email protected]. Tloqs —Live, $5.255i6.25. Flour—XX Fall, $5.00@ 5,50. Wheat— No. 2 Red Fall, [email protected]. Corn— No. 2, 61@61!4c. Oats— No. 2, 56@56>4c. Rye—--72@73c. Harley— Fork Mess, [email protected]. Lard —lo&@l2c. Milwaukee.— Flour— Spring XX, [email protected]. Wheat —Spring, No. 1, [email protected])^; No. 2, sl.lß @1.19. Corn —No. 2, 59@59?4c. Oats—So. 2, 46@47c. Rye—So. 1, 88@89c. Harley—So. 2, [email protected]. Cleveland.— TlVieaY—No. 1 Red. [email protected]; No. 2 Rod. $f,[email protected]. Corn— 7o@7lc. OatsNo. 1, 52@54c. Detroit.— Wheat— Extra, $1:[email protected])4- Corn—--66@67c. Oats— so@s2/jC. Toledo. — Wheat— Amber Mich., [email protected])4; No. 2 red. [email protected]. Corn— Mixed, [email protected]— s3@s3)4c. ' :■ ■ ■ Buffalo.— Reeves [email protected]. Sheep— Live,[email protected]. East Liberty.— Cattle Best, [email protected]; medium, [email protected]. Hogs— Yorkers. [email protected]; Philadelphia. [email protected]. Sheep— Best, $5.25@ 5.50; good, $4.«[email protected]