Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1874 — LATEST NEWS. [ARTICLE]

LATEST NEWS.

The German Aspect Toward Spain. Official Report of the Beecher Committee. Political Conventions in Illinois, Michigan and Other States. Sixteen Negroes Lynched at Plckettsville, Tenn. Personal Political and General • THE OLD WORLD. According to Bayonne dispatches of the 24th Prince Alfonso, brother of Don Carlos, had issued an order as a retaliatory measure directing the confiscation of the property of Republicans. The Carlists had extinguished all lights on the Spanish coast in the territory under their control. Spanish advices via Paris report that a Ministerial crisis existed in Madrid, and that the inhabitants of that city had refused to submit to a fresh conscription. The recognition of Spain by Sweden had been made public. According to a Madrid telegram of the 26th the Carlists had been defeated in an attempt, on the preceding daj', to carry Puycerda by assault. Three columns had attacked the city in as many diflerent points, but they had been forced to retire with great loss, the Chief of £ Artillery being killed, and more than half of their cannon dismounted. Madrid telegrams of the 29th say the Carlists lost 200 killed and wounded in the assault upon Puycerda. Instructions has been given to the garrison to blow up the place with dynamite if the Carlists succeeded in effecting a lodgment. The French authorities had disarmed a Carlist battalion that had crossed the frontier. It was reported at Madrid on the 30th that the Carlists had suffered reverses at Ripoli. A London telegram of the 25th says Germany has formally notified the powers that she does not intend to interfere in the internal affairs of Spain. A London dispatch of the 26th says Russia had notified Germany that she still adhered to the resolution not to recognize Spain. The London Daily News of the same date announces that the strike of the Belfast weavers had ended, and that they had resumed work at reduced wages. According to a London dispatch of the 31stult. quarantine regulations hud been enforced at Queenstown, Ireland, in respect to vessels from American and West Indian ports, and ports upon the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Late estimates in regard to the Indian famine show that 8,000,000 natives are Mill dependent upon charity for the means of existence. A« order has been issued by the Portuguese Government for the expulsion of Spanish refugees from the Kingdom. THE NEW WORLD. Congressional nominations on the 25th: Republican—Second Michigan. District, H. Waldron, renominated; Third Michigan, Geo. Willard, renominated; Sixth Michigan, Josiah Begole, renominated; Eighth Michigan, N. B. Bradley, renomiahated; Eighth Ohio, Wm. Lawrence, renominated; Eighteenth Ohio, Jas. Monroe, renominated; Sixth Pennsylvania, Washington Townsend, renominated ; Fourteenth Illinois, Joseph G. Cannon, renominated. Democratic and Conservative—First Indiana, Benonis Fuller; Twelfth Illinois. Wm. M. Springer; First Louisiana, Randall Gibson; Second Louisiana, E. J. Ellis; Third Louisiana, J. R. Breaux; Fourth Louisiana, W. M. Levy; Fifth Louisiana, B. F. Spencer; Sixth Louisiana, J. M. Moore. Congressional nominations on the 20th: Republican—Fifth Illinois District, Hon. H. C. Burchard, renominated; Sixteenth Ohio District, Hon. L. Danforth, renominated;' Fifteenth Ohio District, N. H. Van Voorhees. Democratic—Richmond (Va.) District, ex-Gov. 8. C. Walker. Congressional nominations on the27th: Democratic—Eleventh Indiana District, J. D. Cox. Independent Reform—Sixteenth Illinois, Rolla *B. Henry. Anti-Monopoly—Second lowa, J. L. Sheean. Republican—Fourth Ohio, Lewis B. Gunckel, renominated. The Brooklyn Eayle having, on the 22d, published the evidence of Mr. Tilton’s adopted daughter, In which she stated among other things that she once caught Susan B. Anthony sitting in Tilton’s lap, that ancient and injured maiden, on the 24th, rushed into print and indignantly denied the truth of ijmstory, regarding It as too absurd to lie worthy of further notice. Mr. Beecher, on the 24th, at Concord, N. H., signed and swore to an affidavit denyingfthe allegations of the complaint made by Tilton in the civil suit brought agaipst him, except the allegation that he married Tilton to Elizabeth Richards. George C. Harding, editor of the Indianapolis Herald, recently shot Joel Moritz, a merchant of that city, for the alleged betrayal of his daughter, who committed suicide just before the shooting. ” . A Madison (Wis.) dispatch of the 24th says that the decision in the railway-injunction case bj- the Supreme Court of Wisconsin would be made in about ten days. An Omaha.,telegram of the 24th says Gov. Furnas states that the information from various counties in Nebraska warranted the assertion that while the crops are shorter than for several years there Is by nd means a failure. Smail grains show an average; com from one-half to no crop; roots very short; fruit more in quantity and inferior in quality. . No cases of immediate need were reported. At quite a number of points on th£ extreme borders help would soon be required, and must be extended through the winter. ■ The Conservative State Convention of Louisiana concluded its labors on the 25th by the nomination of 3. C. Moncure for State Treasurer. The resolutions adopted deciare that the existing State Government originated in, and has been maintained by, force and fraud, in opposition to the will of a large majority of the voters of the State, in opposition to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of every principle of justice and liberty; that the dominant faction of the Radical party In the State has by false and fraudulent representations inflamed

the passions and prejudices of the negroes as a race against the whites, and has thereby made it necessary for the white people to unite and act together in self-defense and for the preservation of white civilization; that the rights of all men under the Constitution and laws of the land must be respected and preserved inviolate, irrespective of race, color, or previous condition; that Congress cannot constitutionally enact laws to force the two races into social union or equality; that the white people of Louisiana have no desire to deprive the colored people of any rights to which they are entitled, but that a reform is imperatively demanded, which can be effected only by electing to office white men of known capacity and integrity. Tub Kansas State Republican Convention met at Topeka on the 26th. Gov. Tlios. A. Osborn was renominated, and resolutions adopted—indorsing the policy of free banking and specie resumption whenever consistent with industrial interests; declaring that all railroad corporations of the State are the creatures of its Legislature, and it is the duty of that body to subject them to such wise and impartial enactments as will protect the people of the State from extortion and will secure the transportation of merchandise 'and passengers at reasonable rates; favoring the transferring of the Indian Bureau to the control of the War Department; recommending an amendment to the national Constitution which shall forever prohibit any Congress from settling its own compensation; advocating such legislation, botli general and local, as experience shall show to be most effectual in destroying the evil of intemperance; insistingTliat tHe~ precedent set by Washington to declining a re-election to a third term of the Presidency ought never to be deviated from; that the public lands of the United States be sacredly held for the use and benefit of actual settlers, and condemning and disapproving of any further grants of the public domain to railroad or other corporations. The Opposition State Convention met at Springfiefd, HL, on the 26th and nominated for State Treasurer Charles Carroll; School Superintendent, S. M. Etter. The platform adopted declares in favor of the resumption of specie payments as soon as possible without disaster to the business interests of the country, by steadily opposing inflation and by the payment of the national indebtedness in the money of the civilized world; in favor of free commerce, and no tariff except for revenue ; affirms the right and duty of the State to protect its citizens from extortion and unjust discrimination by chartered monopolies; demands that all the pensions of crippled soldiers shall be so increased as to, shield every one of them from daily want without compelling them to take refuge in a so-called Soldiers’ Home. The Michigan State Republican Convention was held at Lansing on the 26th. John J. Bagley was renominated for Governor and Henry H. Holt for Lieutenant-Governor. E. G. D. Holden was nominated for Secretary of State; Wm. B. MeCrcery for Treasurer; Ralph Ely for Auditor;. D, B. Briggs (present incumbept) for Attorney-General. The resolutions adopted challenge comparison between the financial record of the Republican party and that of any other party which ever held power; demand that In all financial legislation Congress shall keep steadily in view the resumption of specie payment to the end that at the earliest practicable day the paper currency of the country may be at par with coin; declare in favor of free banking under a well-guarded national system; that it Is the high duty of the General Government to protect the colored people of the South in the rights and privileges of their citizenship. According to a Nashville (Tenn,) dispatch of the 26th the negroes at Pickettsville, in Gibson County, had for several days before threatened trouble because of some supposed wrong done them, and had manifested a strong intention to kill two or three citizens and fire and sack the town. On the 25th sixteen of the ringleaders were arrested and placed in Trenton jail for safe keeping. On the morning of the 26th from seventy-five to one hundred masked men entered Trenton, rode up to,the jail and compelled the Sheriff to deliver the keys to them. They then took the sixteen negroes and killed six of them at the edge <*f the town. The masked men then rode off with the other ten, and it was thought at last accounts that they had killed them. Whites and blacks were said to be arming. The Ohio State Democratic Convention met at Columbus on the 26th and placed the following ticket in nomination: For Secretary of State, Win. Bell; School Commissioner, C. S. Smart; Judge of Supreme Court, W. J. Gilmore; Clerk of Supreme Court, Arnold Green; Member of Board of Public Works, Martin Schiller. The platform adopted declares that the Democratic party of Ohio adheres to Its ancient principles of securing equal rights and exact justice to all men, and to all the States and communities of the American people,,and of maintaining the independence of the co-ordinate departments of the Federal Government, the Legislative, the Executive and the Judicial,, and resisting every attempt to usurp any of the powers reserved by the Constitution to the States respectively, and to the people thereof; favors such an increase of the circulating medium as the business interests of the country may from time to time require, and declares that sound policy and justice require that not less than one-half of the customs duties should be payable in the Vgal-tendcr notes of the United States commonly, called greenbacks; favors the abolishing of the franchise of the National Banks to issue a paper currency as soon as the same can safely and prudently be done, and advocates that the notes so withdrawn by the banks be substituted by the Government with a legal-tender currency; declares that the 5-20 bonds, by the letter and spirit of the law and the general understanding of the community, were payable in legaltender notes, and that the act of March, 1869, which pledged the nation to their payment in coin was an unnecessary and wicked sacrifice of the jinterests of the taxpaying laborers for the benefit of the non-tax-paying bondholders; favors a revenue tariff; opposes grants of public lands to railroad corporations, etc., etc. .A New York dispatch of the 27th says that Henry C. Bowen, of the New York Independent, had commenced three libel suits—a criminal suit against the editor of the Brooklyn Aryus, a civil suit against the Eagle for SIOO,000 and a civil suit against the reporter who wrote a bogus “ interview” for $50,000. The New Jersey Republican State Convention met on the 27th and nominated Geo. A. Halsey for Governor. Resolutions were adopted—declaring that they approved and would continue to uphold the principles upon which the Republican party was founded; tiiat Pres-

ident Grant deserves their unabated confidence; that they are in favor of such national legislation as will maintain inflexibly the faith of the Government to its creditors and secure the speedy resumption of specie payments. The Pennsylvania State Democratic Convention completed its labors on the 27th by the nomination of the following ticket: Warren J. Woodward for Supreme Judge, John Latta for Lieutenant-Governor and J. F. Temple for Auditor. Their resolutions declare opposition to Government grants of public lands to corporations; that a steady effort should be made to bring the Government notes to par with gold, and to secure a return to specie payment at the earliest possi. blc period that resumption can be effected with safety; denounce the CiviLßiglits bill of the last Congress as a gross invasion of the right of tlie States to control their own domestic concerns; declare against the establishing of mixed schools by law, in which white and black children shall be compulsorily educated, as the interests of the two races will be best served by training the children in separate schools. The Missouri State Democratic Convention adjourned on the 27th. The following is the ticket placed in nomination: For Governor, Charles H. Hardin; Lieutenant-Governor, Norman J. Coleman; Secretary of State, M.K. McGrath; Auditor, Thomas Halladay; Treasurer, Joseph W. Mercer; Attorney-General, John A. Hooka way; Register of Lands, George Delgle; Superintendent of Public Instruction, R. D. Shannon; Supreme Judges: W. Hough, for the long term, and William Napton to fill vacancy-. The platform adopted declares that'tlie 5-20 bonds are distinctly, hy their terms, made payable in legal-tender notes or greenbacks; and that the act of March 18, 1869, whereby Congress solemnly pledged the faith of the United States to a coin redemption, was an utterly unjustifiable usurpation of power; favors a itpeal of the National Banking law and the substitution of greenbacks to the extent of the National Bank currency, if the policy of issuing a national paper currency is to be persisted in; that the legal-tender notes should be made receivable for duties on imports; that railroad and all other corporations created for gain or profit should be rendered subservient to the public good by such legislation upon the subject, both State and National, as will effectually secure the industrial and producing interests of the country against all forms of corporate monopoly and taxation, Gen. Sheridan, on the 27th, Issued an order forbidding the organization of private expeditions to the Black Hills, unless prosecuted under authority of Congress or the Secretary of the Interior. A Salt Lake dispatch of the 26th says Brigham Young had recently answered the bill filed by Ann Eliza, his nineteenth wife, in which she demanded an attorney fee of $15,000 and alimony nt the rote of SI,OOO a month during the pendency of her suit for divorce. Brigham admitted the plural marriage, but demurred to the sum demanded. He was willing to give her SIOO a month. He declared he was worth only about $600,000, and as his income is but $6,000 a month, and lie had to support about sixty persons—wives and children—sloo per month would be the fair proportion for Ann Eliza. At a council of Michigan Grangers held at Detroit on the 27th the Chairman stated that there are 500 Granges in the State, with a membership of 40,000. The official canvass of votes cast at the recent Ohio election was made on the 28th. The clause permitting the grant of aid to railroads is defeated by a majority of 251,000; the majority against license is 7,286, and against all other clauses is 147,284. The Secretary of the Treasury has directed the sale of $3,000,000 gold during the mouth of September. A Washington telegram of the 30th ult. says the alleged trouble between the races in the South was _bemg vigorously discussed iu that city. According to the statement of Senator Patterson, of South Carolina, the condition of affaire was very threatening, and .the negroes were in need of governmental protection. A Madison (Wis.) telegram of the 29th says the Wisconsin Supreme Court had adjourned until Sept. 8, thus again postponing the decision in the railway-injunction case. An extra session of the Kansas Legislature has been called to consider the propriety of an appropriation for the relief of the sufferers from the grasshopper raid. Elsewhere appears the report of the Beecher Investigating Committee to Plymouth Church. In the opinion of the committee Mr. Beecher is fully exonerated.

THE MARKETS. AUGUST 29, 1874. Nkw York.— Cotton— l7@l7%c. Flour— Good to choice, [email protected]; white wheat extra, $5.75@ 6.30. WAeat-No. 2 Chicago, [email protected]; lowa spring, [email protected]; No. 2 Milwaukee spring. [email protected]. Pye—Western, 90c@$1.00. Barley —,...@ Corn— Bl@B2c. Onto'— Western, 47@54c. Port—New mess, [email protected]. Lard— l4M@lssac. CAeese—lo@l3>4c. H’ooZ— Domestic fleece, 45@66c. Peerea—[email protected]. Hoqe— Dressed, [email protected], Sheep— Live, $4.25 @6.25. Chicago.— Beeree— Choice, [email protected]; good, [email protected]; tnedinm, $4.25@5.<»; butchers! stock, [email protected]; stock cattle, [email protected]. Wops—Live, good to choice, 8"[email protected]. Sheep— Good to choice, «[email protected]. Butter— Choice yellow, 28@32c. Egqe— Fresh. 12@12‘4c. Pork— Mess, new, «[email protected]. Lard— [email protected]. Cheeee— New York Factory, 13@13>4c; Western Factory, 12%@13c. Ftour— While winter extra, 85.50@’7.50; spring extra. [email protected]. H'Aeat —Spring, No. 2, 92@93c. Corn— No. 2, 65@67c. Oats—No. 2, il@4l!4c. Pye—No. 2, 74@75c. Barley— No. 2, 91@92c. Hoot -Tub-washed, 45@53c; fleece, washed, 40@ 44c; fleece, unwashed, 27@33c; pulled, 37@39c. Lumbei— First clear, [email protected]; second clear, [email protected]; Common Boards, [email protected]; Fencing. [email protected]; “A” Shingles, [email protected]; Lath, 52X»@2.25. Cincinnati.— Flour— [email protected]. Wheat— sl .oo @1.03. Corn— 7O@73c. Pye-82@83c. Oa/e-43@ 48c. Barley— [email protected]. P0rk— [email protected]. Lard— l4@lsc. St. Loins.— Cattle— Fair to choice, [email protected]. Hoge—Live, [email protected]. Flour— XX Fall, S t.25@ 4.75. Wheat-So. 2 Red Fall, [email protected]>4. Corti— No. 2, 67U@68c. OaZe-No. 2. 43>/i@4sc. Bye—--90@93c. Barley [email protected]. Milwaukee.— Flour— Spring . XX, [email protected]. Wheat — Spring, No. 1. >[email protected]; No. 2. 91'4 @9s'4c. Com— No. 2, 67@67Hc. Oate— No. 2. 40@41c. Pye-No. 1, 82@«3c. Parley—No. 2, 90@91c. 4. Cleveland— li'AeaZ—No. 1 Red. 81.1101.12; No. 2 Red. [email protected]. Com-74@75c. Oate— No. 1, +4@4se- ' Detroit? Wheat— No. 1, |[email protected]. Corn — 7ti@73*4c. Oate-44@44%c. Toi.soo.— Wheat— Amber Mich., t1.09@l OBH; No. 2 red, fl [email protected]?. Com—Mixed, 70@70‘ z 4c. Oate— 43@4sc. Buffalo.— Beeree [email protected]. SAeep-Live, |4.40@4 75. East Liberty.— Cattle -s.Be«t, meaium i [email protected]. Poys-Yorkers. 5«.00@7-t»; Philadelphia. |8.25@8.». SAeep-Best,, 85.23@ 5.50; good, »[email protected]. —lt is estimated, taking as a basis the growth of the country, that in 1880 there Will be 100,000 miles of railroad in the Republic. We have already nearly 70,000 miles.