Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1874 — LATEST NEWS. [ARTICLE]

LATEST NEWS.

Another Crisis in the French Cabinet, Capture of Cuenca by the Carlists. Alnrn, in Navarre, Destroyed by a Landslide. Indian Troubles and Battles in Wyoming. A Water-Spont Wipes Out a Mining Town in Nevada. Theodore Tilton’s “ Statement” and Rev. Henry Ward Beecher’s Reply. An Indignant Denial by Mrs. Tilton of Her Husband’s Charges. Interesting Personal and General Intelligenee. THE ODD WOULD. Gen. de Cissey, Minister of -War, on the 20th announced the appointment of Baron de Chabund l.a Tour as Minister of ..the Interior, and M. Bodct as Minister of Finance. These new appointments leave the Bonapartists without a representative in the Cabinet. The Duke of Montebello died on the 20th. In the Assembly, on the 23d, Periere’s Constitutional bill was rejeeted by 333 ayes to 374 noss, as was also a motion to dissolve the Assembly.

According to a Madrid dispatch of the 20th a proclamation had been issued declaring that charges of sedition and conspiracy shall lie tried by court-martial, and that persons convicted of interfering with railways and telegraphs shall suffer death. A Carlist telegram from Bayonne declares that Don Alphonso entered Cuenea on the 16th and levied a contribution of £32,000, and that 2,000 of the garrison fell into. Ii is hands as prisoners. According to Madrid dispatches of the 22d eight battalions had been sent into the province of Cuenca to reinforce the Republicans. At Alva the Carlists were In strong force. At Salvancte a detachment of Carlists had-been defeated and 700 of the prisoners captured at Cuenca released. The Carlists had executed 160 Republicans at Olat. The Government liad ordered Contributions to tie levied upon tlic partisans of Don Carlos. It was reported that the Carlists had shot every tenth mail -of tliq volunteers captured at Cuenca. Accord ing to a Madrid telegram of the 24th Gen. Morioncs had defeated a large Carlist force in Navarre and taken 1,500 prisoners. According to a Madrid dispatch of the 26tli a terrible land-slide hud occurred at Alara, in the province of Navarre. The village had been fallen upon and utterly destroyed by the overhanging rocks. The disaster was so sudden that few if any of Dio inhabitants escaped. Over 200,, corpses had already been recovered. Queen Victoria sent a message to the British Parliament on the 20tli asking a grant for Prince Leopold, he having attained his majority. According to advices from India there were fears that the cholera had broken out among the 50,000 pilgrims who were assembled in Poore to attend the Juggernaut festival. On the ‘23d the British Parliament adopted a resolution granting $75,000 a year to Prince Leopold. London dispatches of the 24tli say that the small-pox had broken out in Newmarket, England, and was spreading viciously. Disraeli announced on the 24th that the British Parliament wo.uld be prorogued ou the Bth of August. The steamship City of Guatemala was recently wrecked ou one of the Bahama Islands. Vessel and cargo were lost, but the_passengers and crew escaped. Loss, $300,000.

THE" NEW WORLD. On the 23d the Spanish steamer Minerva exploded her boiler in the harbor of Havana, killing two persons and severely wounding sixteen. Gen. Siieridan on the 20th received intelligenee of a fight that had occurred with the Arrapahocs on the 10th near Camp StamtuvHgh, Wyoming Territory, in which twentyfive Indians were killed and 830 ponies captured. The loss of the troops was four killed and three wounded. On the 17th a largo body of Comanches at. tacked a company of regular cavalry about thirty miles west of Fort Sill, in the Cliftkusaw Nation. Col. Carpenter was badly wounded and six of his soldiers were killed, besides a great number wounded. All Indian traders had predicted a general, uprising in the Territory. • A dispatch from St. Paul of the 20tli Bays, that on the afternoon of that day cx-Atty.. Gen. Clark, of Manitoba, was outrageously assaulted by Capt. Hay, of the Minneapolis police, and so badly injured that bis recovery ■was considered doubtful. Hay had been rested on the charge of assault with intent S commit murder.

Tiib Commissioner of Indian lias decliued to remove Special Agent Miles at the demapd of the Friends, who insisted that he should be decapitated because he had railed upon the military for aid in protecting the agency. The Commissioner says the demand, if persisted in, would work great injustice to the Indian policy of the Government. A nispATCH from Havana of the 21st says the death sentence of Dockery had been commuted to ten years’ imprisonment. Retukns to the Department of Agriculture, published on the 21st, show an increase in the corn area of fully 2,000,000 acres—6 per cent, above the breadth ol last year. The percentage of increase is largest In <ie South. The increase in acres is largest -in the West The condition of corn is generally good in the West, but elsewhere variable. Only Massa- __ chusetts of the Eastern States reports an average condition. Only Pennsylvania of the Middle States and'Maryland, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Texas of the Southern (States report the sarije Minnesota is an exception in the Western, States, reporting s&v.t -r y 1 *.t /- .V

nincty-four. California and Oregon fail to give a full average. The percentages of condition above average arc ns follows: South Carolina, 101; Massachusetts, Florida, Michigan and Kansas, 102; Maryland and lowa, 104; Illinois, 105; Texas, 106; Indiana and Nebraska, 109. The States averaging 100 are Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin and Missouri. A destructive fire broke out on the morning of the 22d in the extensive jewelry store of Giles Bros., Nos. 121 and 123 State street, Chicago. Loss estimated at $375,000. Tiie workingmen of Tennessee held a State Convention on the 23d at Nashville, and nominated B. F. C. Brooks for Governor. The Democrats of the Eighth Indiana District held their convention on the 2ijd and nominated Dr. H. J. Rice for Congress. Hon. J. L. Evans is the Republican candidate for Congress in the Eleventh District. While a tank of crude oil was being removed from the cars on the morning of the 23d, at Cleveland, to the oil warehouse, it caught fire from a lantern, and an explosion followed. The reservoir was shattered and the three attendants blown into the air a long distance, enveloped in burning oil. The oil in the ears and adjoining tanks exploded in quick succession. According to a Green Bay dispatch of the 23d forest fires had been raging for several days in the region north and northwest of that city. Near Shioeton over 500 acres of cranberry marsh had been burned over. Bids aggregating $76,000,000 were received at the Treasury Department ou the 23d for the new bonds _1 The Secretary of War, on the 22d, revoked his order of the day previous, sending two companies of regulars to Vicksburg to repress anticipated electiou riots. During the prevalence of a heavy fog on the 24th the iron steamer Merchant ran upon * ledge of rocks off Racine, Wis., and sunk in eleven feet-of water. A Eureka (Nev.) dispatch gives the particulars of a terrible storm which occurred there on the 24th. It had been raining with great violence all the morning until about noon, when the cloud buret on a lofty range of mountains to the cast, and n vast volume of water rushed down .the canon where the town is located. The eastern part of the town was Hooded iu teu minutes by the fearful rush of water, which was constantly increasing in its violence, depth and impetuosity. Tin' people of a portion of the place were hemmed in. Every monicut houses were torn from their foundations and swept away, with their occupants. Rones were procured, a line was formed, and brave men, thus protected, dashed into the torrent and saved many lives. The part of the town devoted to dancehouses and other places of amusement was destroyed. The Hood lasted only half an hour. Dispatches of the 26th announce flic finding of about twenty bodies, and several were missing who were supposed to have been drowned. Tiie Indianapolis High School building was struck by lightning ou the afternoon of the 26th, during tho prevalence of a thunderstorm. Tiie Indiana Prohibitionists hold their State Convention on tho 3d of September, at Ipdianapolis. The Lincoln monument at Springfield, 111., will be dedicated on the 15th of October next, the day ou which the Army of the Tennessee holds its reunion.

THE MARKETS. July 23,1874. New York.— Cotton— Flour— Good to choice. $5.95(016.30 Ljvhite wheat axtra, $6,300 6.50. Wheat —No. 2 Chicago. $1,2904.30. lowa Spring, *1.2901.81; No, 2 Milwaukee Spring, $1.3301.84. Rye— Western, $4.0004.40. Barley, J.... 0 Com— 79oßoc. Oats+- New Western, 64065 c. Pork— New mess, $21.50®21.75. Lard— l2ol2S4C. Wool—Common to extra, 43® 65c. Beeves— slo.sool2.so. Hogs—V reused, $8 [email protected]. Bheei>— Live, $4.2506.25. Cuicaoo. — Beeves —Choice, [email protected]; good, i 15.2506.50; medium, $4.7505.10; butchers’stock, 13.5004.50; stock cattle, *3.0004.25. Hope— Live, ;G 4006.60. Sheep— Good to choice, $4.0004. ,5. hitter— Choice yellow, 26028 c. Earn— Fresh, 13W014C. Pork— Mess, new, $23.50023.75. Lard —*11.50011.75. Flout —While winter extra, 35.7507.75; spring extra, $5.0005.50. Wheat — Spring No. 2, $1.1001.101*. Corn— No. 2. 64® 644 c. Oats— No. 2,56057 c. Itl/je— No. 2,80082 c. Barley—Ho. 2, $1.0101.02. Woof—Tub-washed, 457452 c; fleece, washed, 40044 c; fleece, unwashed, 30033 c; pulled; 37039 c. Lumber— First-clear, $50.00055.00; second-clear. $47.00049.00; common boards, $10.50012.00; fencing. $10.50012.00; "A” shingles, $3.2503.50; lath, $2.2502.3714. Cincinnati.— Flour— s,\[email protected]. Wheat— Red, *4.0301.06. Corn -66068 c, Jfj(*=9s@9Bc. Oats —58066 c. Barley—Pork— #2l.7so 22.00. Lard- 11V4013V4C. St. Louis.— Cattle —Fair to choice. $4.5006.00. Hogs— Live, $5.5006.50. Flour— XX Fall, $5,000 5.50. Wheat— No. 2 Red Fail. $1.1401.15. Corn— No. 2,65067 c. Oats—'Sa. 2, 55@56c. Bye—me @31.00. 8ar1ey— 5....@.... Pork— Mess, $23.00 @23.25. Lard— nT*@l2'Ac. Milwaukee.— Flour— Spring XX. $5.7005.90. IFAenf—Spring, No. 1, $14701.18; No. 2, $1.14 @1.14!i. Corn— No. 2, 64@64!4c. Oafs—No. 2, 52 @s3c. Bye— NO. 1,89090 c. Barley—'So. 2, $1.0201.03. Cleveland.—No. 1 Red, $1.1401.22: No. 2 Red, $1.1101.16. Com-72073c. Oats—So. 1,63064 c. Detroit.— Wheat— Extra, $1.3901.40. Com—--69070c: Oats— s9o6oc. Toledo.— Wheat- Amber Michigan, $1,120 1.18; No. 2 Retd, $1.1201.13 s Cora—Mixed, 68069 c. Oats— s7os9c. BurrALO.— 8eeve5— 54.7506.25. Hogs— Live, $6.2506.85. Sheep— Live, st. 62 1 [email protected]‘/4East Liberty.— Beeves— Best, $6.1006:50: medium, $5.7506.00. Hogs— Yorkers, sp.BOo 6.90; Philadelphia, $7.0007.25. Sheep-Bcsl, $5.2505.50; good, $4.2504.75.