Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1874 — LATEST NEWS. [ARTICLE]

LATEST NEWS.

Resignation of the Spanish Cabinet. Ending of the Austrian Polar Expedition. Mt. Etna A.gpalii in n State of* ^x’uption. Serious Official Defalcation in Minnesota. Political Conventions in Nebraska, Ohio and Elsewhere. Serious Condition of Affairs in Louisiana. Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc. THE OLD WORLD. Maori d telegrams of the 4th say the Carlists had abandoned the siege of Puyeerda, much to the relief of the Spanish Government. A crisis had occurred in the Spanish Cabinet and Gen. bagasta had been asked to form a new combination. According to a Santander dispatch of (lie (ith the Carlists had fired into two German mcn-of-wur from Guetarari, near San Sebastian. Tlie Germans replied by shelling the town. When the Carlists retreated from Puyeerda they were attacked by a Republican column and suffered a loss of 700 in killed and wounded. According to Carlist advices desperate fighting had been going on since the 3d in Catalonia. The Republican losses had been heavy. According to a London dispatch of the 4th the Austrian Polar expedition had been brought to the Norwegian island of Wardoe by a Russian ■ vessel. The highest point reached was in latitude 80. The adventurers had been shipwrecked and compelled to abandon their vessels. They took to sledges in which they traveled seven mouths, and after passing two winters on the ~~ ice finally succeeded in reaching Wardoe. A Rome (Italy) dispatch of the 31st ult. says that Mount Etna had been in a state of eruption since the 29th ult., and that streams of lava were peuring from three craters. Germany celebrated the anniversary of the battle of Sedan on the 2d. The soldiers guarding Bazaine at the time he escaped from St. Marguerite have been all released, the French Gaveruincnt acquitting them of complicity with Bazaine’s departure. Paris dispatches of the 4th say that the commission appointed to investigate the circumstances attending the escape of Bazaine had reported that the jailer and Bazaine'* Aid-de-Camp, Col. Villette, were implicated. The United States expedition sent to ob'serve the transit of Venus reached Cape Town, Africa, on the 4th of August. THE NEW WORLD. Congressional nomination on the 31st nil.: Republican—Charles Foster, Tenth Ohio District, renominated. Congressional nominations on the Ist: Republican— First lowa District, Geo. W. McCrary (second nomination, which he finally accepts); Second lowa, J. Q. Tufts; Second Wisconsin, L. B. Caswell; Twenty-seventh Pennsylvania, C. B. Curtis. Democratic —Twelfth Ohio, A. T. Walling; Twentythird Pennsylvania, A. G. Cochran. Opposi-tion-r-First Minnesota, Franklin H. Waite. Independent Reform—Twelfth Illinois, J. B. Turner. Congressional nominations on the 2d: Republican—First Wisconsin District, Chas. G. Williams, renominated; Seventh Wisconsin, J. M. Rusk, renominated; Second Kansas, Stephen A. Cobb, renominated; Sixth Illinois, Thomas J. Henderson; Sixteenth Illinois, J. S. Martin, renominated; Fourth Michigan, J. C. Burrows, renominated;' Fifth Michigan, W. B. Williams, renominated; Ninth Michigan, J. A. Hubbell, renominated. Democratic—Fifth Ohio, A. V. Rice; Eleventh Ohio, J. L. Vance; Ninth Kentucky, Hansen Cochran. Congressional nominations on the 3d: RepublieanAA. Simpson, Twelfth Illinois District; Omar D. Conger, Seventh Michigan District, renominated; Gen. Goff, First West Virginia District. Reform —J. W. Wilkins, Fifteenth Illinois District. Democratic—Hon. 'William Hartzell, Eighteenth Illinois District; A. McKayow, Fourth Ohio District; Alexander 11. Stephens, Eighth Georgia District, renominated; William Walsh, Sixth Maryland District; R. P. Bland, Fifth Missouri District, renominated. A State Convention of the liquor-dealers of New York will be held at Albany on“the 30th of September. The Black Hills expedition returned to Fort Lincoln on the evening of the :30th ult. The losses during th&trip were three men by dysentery, one man killed by a comrade, and fifteen horses and mules abandoned. Not a shot was fired at the Indians and but few indications of Indians were.seen. Previous reports of the fertility of the BJack Hills.region au^ the extraordinary quantity and variety of its mineral deposits are fully confirmed. A Shreveport (La.) dispatch of the 30th ult. says that a few days before the white people of Coushatta had, at a public meeting, declared the county offices vacant amid a threatening display of shot-guns and bowic. knives. Six of the officials who remained at their postswcrc thrown into jail and six of their adherents. Subsequently, while being taken to Shreveport, they were overtaken by forty or fifty armed men, who took the prisoners out of thb hands of the guard and killed three of them od theyiqt.Threc escaped, but they were recaptured and are thought to have shared the same fate. Shreveport (La.) dispatches of the Ist confirm the previous reports of t he lnur der of the twelve political prisoners who were being taken from Coushatta to that place. The six kUled were Northern men who filled thej offices of Sheriff, Tax Collectors Register and Deputy-Sheriff. They were formerly Union soldiers and held office under Gov. Kellogg. The men who took them out of the hands of the guard claimed to be Texans, The Governor had called out an extra regiment of the State militia to aid in maintaining order. On the 3d Gov. Kellogg * proclamation offering a reward of *5,000 each for the arrest of the. persons Im-

plicated in the Coushatta affair. The proda) mation was accompanied by a statement of the circumstances attending the killing,, showing that, in the opinion of the authorities, the murders were the work of the White League. Another account published in the Picayune of the 3d insisted that the outrages were the work of Texan desperadoes, and characterized the statement of Kellogg as false. The Shreveport (La.) Telegram of the 4th denies that that town furnished the parties who committed the recent Coushatta outrage. It says emphatically that Shreveport men were not concerned in the brutality. The Times of the same date publishes a statement of a Mr. Anney, a leading merchant of Coushatta, to the effect that an investigation had there by a citizens’ committec had revealed a plot on the part of armed negroes to murder indiscriminately a large party of men, women and children in attendance at a dance on the evening of the 27th ult.; that after this discovery a party of scouts were fired upon by the negroes and one of the number was dangerously wounded. The subsequent shooting of the prisoners near that place grew out of this affair. A Shreveport (La.) dispatch of the stli says a message had been sent to President Grant, signed by the leading men of that city, denying that any resident of that parish had participated in the Coushatta affair, and asking that a commission of fair-minded men be appointed to visit the State and ascertain the truth. The Democratic and Conservative State Central Committee have issued an address to the country asserting that the recent acts of violence in Louisiana had been iusti--gated-byGov. Kellogg_and his coadjutors, and that the disorders that had occurred had been magnified by the Radical leaders in or. der to “ forge lightning that there may be thunder at the North.” A special from New Orleans of the stli says the man Abney, whose letter denying that the people of Shreveport had been concerned in the Coushatta affair had been published, was a prominent member of the White League, and had previously indulged in threatening remarks. It was feared that twenty-five colored men held by the Coushatta mob had been killed. An attempt was made on the night of the 4th to burn the State House. The private office of the Attorney-General was broken open, the papers, chairs and books piled oil the floor, saturated with oil and set on fire. Owing to haste and a lack of air the fire did not spread to any extent. A Washington telegram of the sth says that the places in Louisiana designated for troops to prevent outrages are New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Shreveport, Alexandria, Monroe, Harrisburg and St.Martinsville. In a recent 'proclamation to the people of Tennessee in reference to the late troubles at Trenton, Gov. Brown uses the following language: “You are now heralded to the world as jail-breakers and murderers, rioters and law-breakers. With a few bloody and horrible exceptions you do not deserve It. But those exceptions are taken by the world as a rule, and the effects upon your reputation, if not counteracted, will prove as disastrous as if the condemnation were deserved.” Tub Postoffiee Department received information on tlie 31st ult. that on the 28th a train on the Alabama & Chattanooga Railroad was stopped near York Station, Ala., by means of a false signal, and that upon halting it was taken possession of by a band of armed men, who shot down the colored mail agent in cold blood and without provocation.. Official dispatches had been received stating that, on the 30th ult., a body of armed white men surrounded a colored church in Lee County, Ala., while services were in progress and fired into the congregation and burned the church. The following is the public debt statement "for Sept. 1: Six per cent, bonds $1,21.3,228,050 Five per cent, bonds. 511,025,200 Total coin bonds $1,721,253,250 Lawful money debt $14,678,000 Matured debt ... ....... 2,578.440 Legal-tender notes 382.076,697 Certificates of deposit 58,690,000 Fractional c urrency 45(797(675 Coin certificates 211,141,200 Interest 29,356,511 Total debt $2,286,571,773 Cosh in Treasury— Coin $71,083,928 Currency 16,619,232 Special deposits held for the redemption of certificates of deposit, as provided by law 56,690.000 Total in Treasury $146,393,160 Debt less casli in Treasury $ 2,140.178,613 Decrease during August.. 1,626.762 Bonds Issued to the Pacific Railway CompanhMi, .interest payable iii lawful money, principal outstanding ..L... $M.«33.512 Interest paid by the United States. 21,325.396 Interest repaid by the transportation of mails, etc 5,388,692 Balance of interest paid by United States 18,936,704 Hon. Marshall Jewell on the Ist took the oath of office and assumed the duties of Postmaster-General. A Washington telegram of the Ist states that a well-executed counterfeit twenty-dollar note of the Merchants’ National Bank, of New York, had been discovered by the Treasury experts in a package of .National Banknotes sent for redemption. The Attorney-General on the Ist left Washington to consult with the President in regard to alleged Southepi outrages. '* A Woman’s National Tempirdnce Convention is to be held at Cleveland, Ohio, in November next—date not yet fixed upon. August Gardner, a .Frenchman, while walking on the railroad track near Henryville, Ind., on the evening of the 30th ult,, whs robbed of his money by a couple of fdbt-pads, and then tied to the rail in such a manner that when the cars came along both legs were cut off above the knees. He died on the morning of the 31st ult. " • The Secretary of the Treasury on the Ist called in for redemption $15,000,000 of 5-20 bonds of the third and fourth series of Feb. .25,1802. The Ohio Republican State Convention met at Columbus on the 2d, and placed in nomination tlie following ticket? For Secretary of State, A. T. Wikoff; Supreme “tadge, long term, Luther Day; short term, W/tV. Johnson; School Commissioner, - Thomas W. "HoWe; Clerk of Supreme Court, Rikjncy Foss; member of the Board of Public Works, Stephefi R. Hosmer—all renominations excepUJohnson, wild is nominated for the unexpired term of Judge JJtone, resigned. The resolutions adopted reaffirm the principles and policy of the Republican party; demand that the equal civil and political rights of all citizens be enforced by appropriate legislation j favor a tariff for revenue, with incidental protection

to aid and encourage American industry: denounce all forms of open or covert repudiation, and declare it to be the duty of the National Government to adopt measures for gradually restoring our paper money to a specie standard without a shock to the business interests of the country, after which banking should be free; declare in favor of National and State legislation to promote cheap and prompt transportation; condemn the recent alleged outrages and murders of unoffending colored citizens in the South; favor the restraint of intemperance and its causes, to the full extent of the legislative, judicial and police powers of the State. A People’s State Convention was held at Jefferson City, Mo., on the 2d, and nominated William Gentry for Governor and H. W. Headlee for Lieutenant-Governor. Resolutions were adopted—against any further increase of the State debt; declaring against all combinations which tend to increase the cost of transportation beyond a fair remuneration to carriers, and that it is the duty of the legislative branch of tlie Government to subject the railroads to such wise and impartial enactments as will protect the people from extortion without impairing the rights or usefulness of such corporations; opposing any further contraction of the national currency as detrimental to the interests of tlie producing classes. On the 30th ult., according to a Lexington (Mo.) dispatch of the 2d, the James boys and one of the Younger gang stopped and robbed a stage full of passengers near North Lexington, realizing by the outrage about S3OO in chattels and money. They rode away in plain view of hundreds of people who had got wind of the affair aud gathered on the bluffs to witnessit. — —

Resolutions were adopted on the 2d by the Columbia (S. C.) Board of Trade denouncing the attempt of certain parties, and particularly of John J. Patterson, to create a false impression as to the relations which exist between the white and colored people of that State. They brand the statement that there is any danger of rupture as false, and ask the national authorities to cause an investigation to be made into tlie truth of the statements of Patterson and others made at Washington. The Nebraska State Republican Convention, which met at Lincoln on the 2d and 3d, placed in nomination the following ticket: For Governor, Silas Garber; Secretary of State, Bruno Izschuck; Treasurer, J. C. McBride; Attorney-General, Geo. 11. Roberts; for Congressman, L. Crounse; contingent Congressman, Pat. O. Hawes. The State platform expresses a hope to soon see the eirculatirig medium of the country based on a metallic currency; advocates free banking; disavows hostility toward railroads, but demands that they be made subservient to .the public good; favors national regulation of inter-State commerce; opposes a third Presidential term, and favors the election of President, Vice-President and Senators by a direct vote of the people. The State Woman’s Temperance Convention, recently in session at Indianapolis, Ind., adopted resolutions indorsing tlie Baxter law and agreeing not to support any candidate for office not in sympathy with the temperance movement, and not pledged to support that law in the General Assembly. Oct. 8 was fixed upon as a day of humiliation, fasting and prayer. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Mrs. Gov. Wallace, President; Mrs. M. M. Finch, of Indianapolis, Secretary, and Mrs. Reed, of Richmond, Treasurer. Gen. Sheridan on the 3d issued an order forbidding gold-seekers from passing over the Sioux reservation to the Black Hills. In ease of trespass he has directed the arrest of the adventurers and the destruction of their outfit. On tlie night of the Ist snow fell an inch deep in Green River Valley, Wyoming. A Havana dispatch of the 3d says that Doc'kery, who had been condemned to death as.an insurgent spy, had been sent as a State prisoner to Spain. President Grant on the 3d instructed the Secretary of War to co-operate with the Attorney-General in the suppression of outrages in the South. The latter subsequently issued instructions to Southern United States Marshals, calling their attention to tlie acts of Congress for the protection of citizens, and authorizing them to call upon United States troops for the suppression of all disorders. It was recently decided in New York, in a bankruptcy proceeding, that when the assets of a bankrupt fail to reach 50 per cent, of the claims proved against bls estate, he cannot have a discharge unless by consent of a majority in the number and value of the creditors. ’ ' The Republican majority for Governor of Vermont was between 21,000 and 23,000. The. vote in the Second (Poland’s) Congressional District is as follows: Poland (regular Republican), 5,749; Dennison (opposition Republican ) T 7,099; Davenport (Democrat),2,o22; scattering, 931. No choice, as it requires a majority to elect; on the second trial a plurality elects. On the 4th Prof. King, accompanied by representatives of the press, made a balloon ascension from Cleveland, Ohio. Tlie adventurers, after an interesting voyage of neMly 500 miles in twenty-four hours' effected a landing near Smith's Creek, ten miles from Port Huron, Mich.„ * Havana telegrams of the sth say the Spanish residents in Cuba had been greatly indignant over the rumor of the proposed cession of Porto Rico to Germany, and it was onlyafter the receipt of a telegram from Madrid denying its correctness that the excitement was quieted. A convention of Southern Republicans is to be held at Atlanta, Ga., on the 12th of October to consider the needs of the South and the reforms necessary for perfect reconstruction. Mokelumne, Cal., has been wholly destroyed by tire. The proposition to allow the people to vote on the question of repudiation has been rejected by the Arkansas Constitutional Convention. In consequence of the opposition of the* military authorities the proposed expedition to the Black Hills has been abandoned. The committee appointed by the last Minnesota Legislature to Investigate the transactions of CharteS-Mcllrath,. late State Auditor, on hccountof school and swamp lands have unanimously reported a defalcation of $89,559. Steele (Democrat) has been" elected Delegate to Congress from Wyoming by from 500 to 000 majority. ’ On the morning of the 2d a fire at Greenville, Miss., burned seventy-thrpe building* and in fileted a loss of over $‘250,000!,