Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1874 — LATEST NEWS. [ARTICLE]

LATEST NEWS.

England and Germany Do Not Interfere in Spanish Affairs. France Stations Troops on the Spanish Frontier. Bismarck’s Son Kills His Adversary in a Duel. An Ohio River Steamer Burned to the Water’s Edge. Fifty Persons Burned to Death and Many Seriously Injured. The Libel Suit Against Theodore Tilton Dismissed. Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc, THE OLD WORLD. A Madrid dispatch of the 3d announces the capture of Olot with 100 Carlist prisoners. The Government had ordcred the sending of 12,000 troops to Cuba. Bayonne dispatches of the 6th arc to the effect that the Carlisle had recently received many breech-loading rifles and a large quantity of ammunition. Spain had sent a circular note to foreign powers declaring that the Carlists, under the pretext of defending religion, had been guilty of assassination and pillage. Madrid dispatches of the 7th say the Republican forces had raised the siege Of Tcrnel and the Carlists had fled. Fifty persons concerned in the assassination of Marshal Prim had been indicted. A Bayonne telegram of the 9th says the Carlist Gen. Dorregarry had resumed the offensive in Navarre. He had captured Laguardia and was advancing on Pueblo. tr was reported in Berlin on the 3d that the Catholic Bishops had forwarded to the Government a protest declaring that they could not submit to one-sided laws, and claiming that legislative power tn church affairs belonged to tire Pope alone. A Berlin dispatch of the 4th says that a son of Prince Bismarck had recently killed an antagonist in a duel. According to a telegram of the Bth Germany had notified her representatives abroad that the time had come to recognize the Spanish Republic. , London dispatches of the 4th say that the reports recently circulated that a diplomatie rupture had occurred between France and German}' and that European powers had de: cided upon armed intervention in Spanish affairs were false. The foundation for these reports was simply that Germany had sent a note to the MacMahon Government protesting against the Pyrenees being used as a Carlist arsenal. In consequence of this note the French troops on the border had been instructed to prevent the passage of., armed Carlists over the boundary between Spain and France. Advices of the 9th were to the •fleet that an application was about to be made to the British Parliament for an appropriation of £40,000 to pay the debts of the Prince of Wales. On the night of the Btb a serious riot had occurred at Portsmouth, in consequence of the closing of a thoroughfare by the authorities. Three thousand persons removed the obstructions, and it was not until the police were reinforced by the military that the mob was dispersed. Many on both sides were seriously injured. After passing the budget, on the sth, the French Assembly adjourned. The Deputies of the Left held a meeting and resolved to agitate in favor of a general election on the ground that the present Government did not fairly represent the sentiment of the country. The Legitimists also met and resolved to agitate for a monarchy. A terrible gale, according to London telegrams of the 6th, had recently been experienced off the coast of Scotland. A large number of fishing-boats were supposed to be lost. The .Vene Free Presss, of Vienna, of the 7th says the French Minister of Foreign Affairs had complained to the British Government that Germany was seeking a pretext for quarreling with France. Queen Victoria prorogued the British Parliament by message read by royal comission on the 7th. A number of International leaders were arrested at Florence, Italy, on the 9th.

THE SEW WORLD. A Saratoga (N. Y.) dispatch of the 3d says that a conference between the managers of the trunk railway lines had been recently held there, at which it was decided to appoint commissioners who should prescribe the rates of freight between the West and the seaboard. Staaden and Anderson, two of the alleged Chicago incendiaries, have been indicted, and held for trial before the Criminal Court of the city. On the Ist Lord Gordon Gordon, the notorious swindler, committed suicide at Fort Garry, Manitoba. He was under arrest at the time for bringing stolen goods into Canada. * Ax election occurred in Kentucky on the 3d, which resulted in the usual Democratic victory. The Treasury Department has notified the public that, in compliance with a law passed by the last Congress, whenever a counterfeit note of any National Bank is discovered, all of that deriominatiori*Tn circulation of the bank will be called in. Theodore Tilton on the 3d addressed a note to the Beecher Investigating Committee stating that by advice of counsel he will hold no further communication with them for the reasons that the committee is composed of Mr. Beecher’s friends, appointed by him and expected to act in his behalf, assisted by attorneys employed exclusively for his vindication; he expect’ no justice, either from the tribunal, since it cannot compel witnesses to testify, or from its reporters, since they do not give Impartial reports; and that the committee had come at last to be as little satisfactory to the public” as to himself, and that its verdict” could riot possibly be based on the full facts, since the Committee bad no power to compel wit-

nesses nor to verify their testimony by oath, nor to sift it by cross-examination. He thus Concludes: “ For these-reasons, which ought to have moved me earlier, I have at last instructed my counsel to proceed at once, at his discretion, to carry my case from your jurisdiction to a court of law; and in view of this instruction from me he has in turn instructed me to hold no further communication with the committee except this present letter of courtesy, in which I have the honor to bld you farewell, in doing which allow me to add that the respect which I am unable to entertain for your committee as a tribunal I cannot help expressing for you each and all as individuals.” On the sth the complainant in the libel suit against Mr. Tilton withdrew the complaint on the ground that the complaint was about to be renewed in a higher court. Frank Moulton, in compliance with the request of both Mr. Beecher and Mr. Tilton, had announced his readiness to appear before the committee with the Beecher-Tilton documents on the evening of the Bth. The following dispatch was sent from St. Joseph, Mo,, on the 4th: “The grasshoppers have entirely destroyed the corn crop of Western Kansas and Nebraska. It is doubtful if 1,000 bushels of corn will be raised in Kansas or Nebraska west of a line passing from the Platte River, in Nebraska, through the towns of Humboldt, Seneca and Manhattan to Wichita, on the Arkansas River. Hundreds of new settlers in Western Kansas and Nebraska are selling their cattle and household goods for whatever they will bring, and preparing to leave the country. As there is a good crop of wheat and other small grain there will be no starvation, but a great drawback—on the business of the country. The ‘hoppers’ are as thick as bees in swarms, devouring every green thing in their path, and slowly moving to the south and east. It is feared they will destroy all the corn west of the Missouri River.” Hon. John A. Kasson has been renominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Seventh lowa District. The Wisconsin State Grange recently issued an address to the Granges of the State, advising them that a vigorous effort would be made in the next Legislature to repeal the Railroad law, and urging them to resist the attempt.

The steamboat Pat Rogers, running on the Ohio River between Louisville and Cincinnati, was, on the morning of the sth, when near Aurora, Ind., burned to the water’s edge. The fire started in the cotton with which she was laden, and was caused by the carelessness of smokers. The officers and crew were demoralized by fear and left the women and children to their horrible fate. Fifty person* were lost and several were seriously burned. The Chicago Times of a late date says that at a recent meeting of; Western railroad managers in that city it had been determined to restore the ante-panic rates for the transportation of grain from the interior to Chicago. Tills will raise tlie rates from 10 to 25 per cent. On the 6th Congressional nominations were made as follows: Republican—Colorado Territory, 11. P. 11. Brom well; Sixth Ohio District, A. M: Pratt, of Williams County; Sixth Indiana, Milton S. Robinson, of Madison County; Tenth Indiana, Maj. Calkins, of Laporte. Anti-Monopoly—First lowa, "Hon. Edward Campbell; of Jefferson County. Democratic—Fourth Missouri, R. A. Hatcher, renominated. An Independent State Convention was recently held at Topeka, Kan., at which the following nominations were made: For Governor, J. C. Cusey; Lieutenant-Governor, E. H. Ewington; Secretary of State, Nelson Abbott; Treasurer, Charles F. Koester; Auditor, G. P. Smith; Superintendent of Public Instruction, H. B. Norton; Attorney-General, J. B. Hallowell; Assistant-Justice of the Supreme Court, W. P. Donthitt. The following are the main features of the platform adopted: Maintaining the inviolability of the right, of the State to control its own domestic institutions; condemning the present Administration for its bold defiance of public sentiment and disregard of the public good; insisting that the public debt shall be paid in strict compliance wjth the law under which It was contracted; demanding the repeaftf the National Banking law, and the issue of legal tenders interchangeable for Government bonds bearing a low rate of interest; favoring the repeal of the tariff on lumber and on the necessities of common life; demanding such legislation in regard to railroads as will secure th£industrial interests of the country against monopoly and extortion; denouncing the Poland law of the last Congress as an outrage againstthe liberty of the press and the individual; protesting against the Indian policy of the Administration, and favoring the election of President, Vice-Presi-dent and Senators by a direct vote of the peo. pie.

The North Carolina election, on the 6th, pasted off quietly. Democratic gains were everywhere reported, arid it was considered certain that the State liad gone Democratic by from 5,000 to 10,000 majority. Seven of the eight Congressmen elected were Democrats., The county elections in Tennessee, on th* 6th, generally resulted in favor of the Conservatives and Democrats. The Michigan State Reform Convention was held at Lansing on the 6th. A State Central Committee was chosen, consisting of Messrs. Cook of Hillsdale, Eugene Pringle of Jackson, James B. Upton of Calhoun, J. W. Turner of Shiawassee, and George H. Murdock of Berrien County. The committee decidcd to call a State Convention to meet at Jackson on the 9th of September. Resolutions were adopted—favoring the organization of a National Reform party; in favor of a currency “ that shall not be susceptible to such contraction or inflation as shall result in injury t& the business interests of the country advocating the maintenance inviolate of the righitk of the States; in favor of the one-term principle for President; declaring that the State Legislature has the right to regulate the fares and freight upon railroads so far as to protect tile public against unreasonable charges, and that it is the duty Of the Legislature at once to so change the rate and mode of taxing railroads that they shall bear equal burdens with other property in the support of Government; that the acceptance and use of free passes by members of the Legislature, State officers and Judges of court* of record, as a practice, is inimical to the interests of the laboring and producing classes, etcr, * The receipts of the,, Illinois State Treasury for tlic month of July were $650,768.01 and the disbursements $254,067.87.

The amount of National Bunk notes received for redemption at the Treasury to the ' close of business on the 7th was $12,905,427. The amount of circulation outstanding was $350,142,000, This lowa State Woman’s Suffrage Convention will be held at Des Moines on the 9th of September. The following Congressional nominations were made on the 7th: Republican—First Louisiana District, J. 11. Sypher, renominated; Second J-ouisiana, Henry Dibble; Third Louisiana, C. B. Darrall, renominated. Conservative —First Virginia, Beverly R. Douglass? - Anti-Monopoly—Ninth lowa, C. E. Whiting. A Washington dispatch of the 9th says the new Commissioners of the District of Columbia had consolidated the School Trustees of the District into one Board, consisting of ten white and five colored members. Ida Kurtz was burned to death at Green Bay, Wis., the other day, in an attempt to kindle a tire with kerosene. During the Buffalo races Goldsmith Maid trotted a mile in 2:15)4?

THE MARKETS. August 8, 1874. New York.— Colton— l7®l7%c. Flour— Good to choice, [email protected]; white wheat extra, $6.20@ 6.65. Wheat— No. 2 Chicago, $1.24®1.26. lowa Spring, [email protected]; No. 2 Milwaukee Spring, [email protected]. Rye— Western, [email protected]. Rarity, $....@ Corn— 79@Blc. Oats—New Western, 73@85c. Port—New mess, [email protected]. Lard— Wool— Common to extra, 43@66c. Beeves— [email protected]. Hogs— Dressed, [email protected]%. Sheep-Uw, [email protected]. Chicago.— Brews—Choice, [email protected]; good, [email protected]; medium, [email protected]; butchers’stock, [email protected]; stock cattle. $3.00®4.00. ZZor/n—Live, [email protected]. Sheep— Good to choice, [email protected]. Butter— Choice yellow, 26@30c. Eggs— Fresh, 12%@13c. Port—Mess, new, [email protected]. Lara —[email protected]. Flour— White winter extra, [email protected]; spring extra, [email protected]. Wheat— Spring No. 2, «1.034@1.(M4. Corn— No. 2, 66!4@ 6714 c. Oats— No. 2,39@39*/«c. Rye— N0.2,7.34@74c. Barley— No. 2, $1.03!/,®! .04. Woof—Tub-washed, 45@52c; fleece, washed. 40@44c; fleece, unwashed, 30@33c; pulled, 37@39c. Lumber— First-clear, [email protected]; second-clear, [email protected]; common boards, [email protected]; fencing, [email protected]; “A” shingles, $3.25®3.50; lath, $2.2502.37%. Cincinnati.-— FVoar—[email protected]. Wheat— Red, [email protected]. Corn— 62@64c. Rye— 7B@Boc. Oats —43Q4BC. 8ar1ey—5....@.... Pork— s23.so@ 24.00. LariZ—l3%@lsc. St. Louis.— Cattle— Fair to choice, [email protected]. ffoag—Live, [email protected]. Flour— XX Fall, $5.00® 5.50. Wheat— No. 2 Red Fall, [email protected]. Corn— No. 2, 63@64c. Oa/s-No. 2, 47@48c. Rye-~9 @Boc. Barley— [email protected]. Port—Mess, $23.50 @24.00. Lard— l3@l4c. Milwaukee.— Flour— Spring XX, [email protected]. WtrhZ—Spring, No. 1, $1.1.5@L15%; No. 2. $1.09 @1.09%. Corn— No. 2, 64@65c. Oats— No. 2,51 @s2c. Rye— No. 1, 84@85c. Barley— No. 2, [email protected]. Cleveland.— Wheat— No. 1 Red, [email protected]; No. 2 Red, [email protected]. Com-68@69c. Oats-So. 1, 42®44c. Detroit.— Wheat— Extra, $1.28@1,28%. Com—--71®72c. Oats— 39®4oc. Toledo.— Wheat- Amber Michigan, $1,15® 1.16; No. 2 Red, [email protected]. Com— Mixed, 67@68c. Oats— 43@46c. Buffalo.— Beeves— [email protected]%. Hogs— Live, [email protected]%. Steep—Live, $4,[email protected]. East Libertv.— Beeves— Best, [email protected]: medium, $5.25®5.95. Iltgs— Yorkers, $6.00® 6.70; Philadelphia, [email protected]. Steep—Best, [email protected]; good, [email protected].