Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1874 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

The Louisiana Troubles—Fighting and Bloodshed. The McEnery Officials Obtain Possession of the State Offices. Bat Surrender, Under Protest, to the United States Forces. Proclamation by the President—Kellogg Reinstated. - file Sapreme C-onrt es Wisconsin Enjoins the Railroads te Obey the Potter Law. A Second Statement by Theodore Tilton. Burning: Of a Cotton Mill at Ffttt River, Mass.—Great Loss of Life. Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc. PORKIGH. The International Postal Congress opened its sessiou at Berne, Switzerland, on the 15th, all of the delegates being present except those from the United States. A French court on the 17th sentenced Col. Villette to six months’ imprisonment for assisting Marshal Baxainc to escape from St. Marguerite. Others were sentenced from one to ten months. Madrid dispatches of the 17th say that sevCral engagements had recently occurred, iesulting in Carlist defeats. The Carlists had again been repulsed in an attack upon Cuenca. A dispatch from Constantinople of thetWr says the Governor of Angora had reported that 34,000 of his people were utterly destitute and will require maintenance during the winter. DOVIRSTIO.. vr - President Grant issued a proclamation on the 15th, reciting the recent revolutionary proceedings in Louisiana, and stating that the Executive of the State, the Legislature not being In session, had made application for Federal aid to protect the State and citizens thereof against domestic violence, and concluding as follows: “Now, therefore, I, IT.l T . S. Grant, President of the United States, do hereby make proclamation and command said turbulent and disorderly persons to disperse and retire peacefully to their respective abodes within five days from this date, and hereafter to submit themselves to the laws and eonstituteil'authorities of said State. I invoke the aid and co-operation of all good citizens thereof to uphold the law and preserve the public peace." A Washington dispatch of the 17th says Atty.-Gen. Williams had received a large number of letters from United States Marshals, Attorneys and others, representing a terrible state of affairs in some portions of Alabama,-Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana. There was not so much disturbance as heretofore in South Carolina. Correspondents say that there was no safety for colored people. There were no complaints from Texas, North Carolina and Virginia. A Little Hock (Ark.) dispatch of the IStii says that on the evening preceding the stages running between Malvern and Hot Springs were overhauled by four ment, supposed to be the same who robbed the Hot Springs stage last spring and the railway train at Gad’s Hill some months before. The passengers in two stages were robbed, the foot-pads getting away with about $*2,000 in money and several watches. At last accounts the Sheriff of the county was in hot pursuit with a large posse, being only five miles behind, and with good prospect of capturing them. „ Gov.-Brown, of Tennessee, on the 18th sent _jc message to President Grant protesting against the arrest by the United States Marshal of citizens of Tennessee upon the charge erf murdering the TrentoiSprisoners. He insists that the duty of punisliibg offenders belongs to the State, and that the Shye authorities are entirely willing and have manifested the most earnest jlesire to punish the Trenton offenders. He demands that no more arrests shall be made, and that the parties already in custody shall be turned over to the proper local tribunals for-trial and punishment. A Bismark (D. T.). dispatch of the 15th declares that the statement of Prof. Winchell, that there is no gold in the Black Hills, is unqualifiedly false. Three persons who accompanied the Custer expedition declare they found diggings that would - pay no less than ten dollars per day per man. Upon further examination it has been discovered that the Milwaukee «V Prairie du Chien Railway is not exempted from the operation of the Potter law. The September returns to the Department of Agriculture indicate an .peerage condition of thfe wheat Crop of 98, against 95 last year. The acreage of the crop is 7 per cent, greater than last year, which'would bring the aggregate yield to nearly an average on last year’s acreage. North of the Ohio River most of the counties not visited by the chinchbug present superior crops. Ohio,' Michigan and Indiana are above average. Illinois 2 per -cent, below, by drought and chinches. West of the Mississippi drought, intense heat, hot winds, chinches and grasshoppers have reduced all the States below average .except Missouri. A terrible calamity has occurred at Fall River, Mass. One of the buildings of the Granite Mills at that place was burned on the morning of the 19th, the fire breaking out after the operatives in the mill—over 400 hi number—had commenced work. Many of J*. operatives lost their lives either by suffocation or jumping from the windows, and many others were injured. The loss by tile fire is over $300,000. Further- particulars of this horror are given'elsewhere. (hi the 19th the President replied to the dispatch of Gov! Brown, of Tennessee! saying that he waa gratified to know;that the State authorities were disposed to repress and pun-

Ish lawless acts, but the Constitution made it Ills duty to enforce the acts of Congress, and Congress had passed laws giving the United Btates concurrent jurisdiction in suc h cases, lie wQPilfl, gjjyp iJUe G.n, in,,! a more d< :.uUe answer when the report of the United states District Attorney for.the Western District ot Tennessee had been received. Late reports from the plains suy that the Indians are bpcoming very I*old ami troublesome. Col. Miles' 1 was ordered to protect a surveying party, some of whom were recently massacred. One large train had been captured by the Indians, after*k desperate tight, and the troops forced to fall back 100 miles to meet their supplies. .On the 15th .the redskins attacked the town of Prairievill.', Kan., and burnt a small store and a station-house j belonging to the Atchison, To[>eka A Santa i Fe Railroad. - I’KItHOV.tf,. On the 15th B. R. Curtis, the distinguished jurist, and formerly one of the Associate .1 us- | ticos of the Supreme Court, died at New port, j R. I. A New York dispatch of the lftth say- Hdna j Dean Proctor, the authoress, hud commenced | suit for libel against Francis 1). Moulton for ! the referepoe made to her in his recent reply i to the statement of Mr. Beecher. She claims sloo*ooo <1 a mages. The tliifty-sev-ntii Annual Diocesan Con- | vention of tlie Episcopal Diocese of Illinois, j in session at Chicago on the 10th, elected Rev. George 11. Seymour, Professor of 'Ecclesiastical History in the General Seminary, of New York, Bishop of the. diocese, to succeed the late Bishop Whitehrmsc. Senator Brownlow on the 19th addressed a letter to Gov. Brown, of Tennessee, thanking him for the energetic -steps he had taken to preserve the peace and punish the assassins who have so much outraged humanity ami discredited the State of Tennessee. POLITICAL. A dispatch from Speaker Blaine to the President, on the 14th, says the Republicans had carried Maine by a majority of from 9,000 to 12,000 votes; had carried cvejjy Congressional district; had chosen twenty-nine or thirty Senators to one by the Democrats, and elected three-fourths of the* House of Representatives. As nearly as could be estimated Burleigh had 1,000 majority in the First Disfi-iet; Frye 2,500 in tile. Second; Blaine "it,ooo jn the Third; Hersey 2,500 in the Fourth; Hale :5,000 in the Fifth. On the 14th J. E. Pearson was nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Eighth Ohio District. Tlie Supreme Court of Wisconsin, on the -15th;refldered a—decision- in the injunction suits brought by the Attorney-General against the Chicago, Milwaukee A St. Paul and the Chicago <fc Northwestern Railroads. The court maintains its original jurisdiction in eases brought by the State, but holds that it would not extenddo private suits; affirms the constitutionality of the Potter law; rejects the theory that this law was repealed by the act of March 12, prescribing that the railroads shall make reasonable rates; and, finally, grants the injunction asked for the State compelling these two railroads to comply with the provisions of the Potter law. The roads are given till Oct. 1 to make arrangements to this end. It is said Mr. Keep, President of the Northwestern, has stated that compliance with the law’will necessitate a reduction of expenses on all sides,- that fewer tjrains and ■second-class „ coaches will be run, that work wilt be suspended in the shops, and that the number of employes will be reduced. Mr. Mitchell, President of the Milwaukee A St. Paul, says that trains will be run on liis road as usual, and only cut off os it becomes obvious that they are unprofitable. The Arkansas State Republican Conventionmet at Little Rock on the 10th, and adjourned without making any nominations. The resolutions strongly denounce the Constitution recently framed, and declare that Uni-Consti-tutional Convention was a conspiracy of White League, Ku-Klux and leaders of the late rebels to overthrow the reconstructed Government; that all the troubles in the South are hut an attempt to revive the lost cause. Thirty-tlve delegates were appointed to the Chatanooga Convention of Southern Republicans which meets on the IStli of October. Congressional nominations on the 10th: Republican—R. 11. Whiting, Ninth Illinois District; E. 11. Roberts, Twenty-second New York, renominated; Henry S. Magoon, Third Wisconsin. Democratic—W. K. Morrison, Seventeenth Illinois, renominated; ,T.,T. Robinson, Second Michigan; Allen Potter. Fourth Michigan. Reform —David C. Fulton, Seventh ' Wisconsin. ~ - - - The York Democratic State Convention on the 17th, at Syracuse, nominated S. J. Tilden for Governor; William Dorsheimer for Lieutenant-Governor ; Adin Thayer for Canal Commissioner; Geo. W. Wagner )y>r Inspector of State Prisons; Theodore Miller for Judge of the Court of Appeals. The resolutions demand: Gold and silver and no currency inconvertible with coin; steady steps toward specie payment; honest payment of the public debt in coin'; revenue reform; federal taxation for revenue only; no Government partnership with protected monopolies: home rule and no centralization; equal and exact justice to all men; no gag laws-: uniform excise, but no sumptuary laws; no third term, etc. Congressional nominations off the 17th: Republican—John K. Green, First Ohio District; Job E. Stevenson, Second Ohio; W. 11. Rogers, First Arkansas; John M. Clayton, Second Arkansas; W. J. Hynes, Third Arkansas; Chas. H. Lander. Fourth Arkansas. Independent—J. F. Farnsworth, Fourth Illinois^* Bagby, Tenth Illinois. Democratic— Alexander Campbell, Seventh Illinois (the Independent nominee); M. D. Wilbur, Fifth Michigan: W. J. O'Brien, Third Mara land, renominated ; Thomas Swann, Fourth Maryland, j renominated-, C. H. Morgan, Sixth Missouri; A. H. Buckner, Thirteenth. Missouri, ronoini-' nated; Bagby, Tenth*lllinois (the Independent nominee). M. M. Haim, member of the Democratic National Committee for lowa, has issued an address calling upon the Democracy of the State to support the Anti-Monopoly State, Congressional and local tickets at the ensuipg election,' there having been no State Demo- : eratie Convention held during the.; present j year. , The Tennessee Republican State Coiiven- j tion assembled in Chattanooga' on the 16th, and nominated Horace Maynard for Governor by acclamation. Resolutions were adopted—favoring the Civil-Rights bill; recommending a State Constitutional Convention; favoring public schools and the improvement of Southern rivers, etc. The Democratic State Central Committee of Tennessee have issued an address condemning ail aets of violence, whether committed by whites or blacks. Of the Civil-Eights bill they say; “It seems to have been intended to brjng about ti»e unfortunate state of affairs which now exists in many of the Southern Btates, Tennessee among tlie number.”