Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1874 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

The Cariists Defeated After Four Days’ Fighting. clm • Breaking Up of Their Army in the North of Spain. Fearflal Explosion in London—Several Live* Lost. Germany Demands the Cessation of French AM to the Cariists. The PuMic Debt Statement for September. Beecher Procires the lidirtaeit of Tilton ud InltM for Libel. Mist Catherine E. Beecher vs. Henry C. Bowen. Francis D. Moulton Indicted for Libelinf Miss Procter. Compromise Between the Conservatives and Bepnblicans of Louisiana. Other Interest ins News Items. FOREIGN. A Vienna dispatch of the 28th says Austria vrill aeit year send another expedition to the Arctic regions to ascertain whether the land discovered by the expedition, and named Frant Joseph's Land, is an island or a portion of the continent. Dispatches received from Madrid on the 20th say there had been continuous fighting in the Province of Navarre for four days previous to the 25th. On that day twenty two .bjttafions of Cariists attacked Gen. Morlones’ army at Bersain. A sanguinary conflict ensued, resulting in the repulse of the Cariists along the' whole line. Their losses were very heavy and they had been compelled to ask medical assistance of the Republicans. It was reported that Russia was about to .open negotiations with a view to the recognition of the Spanish Republic. A Berne (Switzerland) dispatch of the 29th says that all the European Governments represented in the Postal Congress, except Prance, had instructed their delegates to sign the convention upon condition that it receives the support and ratification of the United States. France reserves the right to hereafter examine the conditions before signing. The London Times of the Ist in a leading Article contradicts the statement recently current that the tfueen had paid the debts of the Prince of Wales.- A London dispatch of the same date announces the breaking of the direct cable, and the return of the vessels engaged in laying it. Advices from the North of Spain to London journals of the Ist indicate the breaking up of the Carlist army. Several of the insurgent leaders had already surrendered, and it was reported that others had been shot by order of Don Carlos for demanding a cessation of hostilities. Early on the morning of the 2d a barge lying in tire Regent Canal and laden with powder exploded near the London Zoological Gardens, killing and wounding a number of persons and shattering houses and bridges for two miles away. A number of valuable Animals in the garden were also killed. The bodies of five persons had been recovered up to the date of the dispatch. * A late arrival from Japan brings the intelligence that the recent typhoon caused great destruction at Nagasaki. Several steamers and over 1,000 junks were wrecked, 0,000 houses destroyed, and over 300 lives lost at Nagasaki, Kobe and Sagaken. A Rome dispatch of the Sd says the King of Italy had issued a decree dissolving the Chamber of Deputies aud ordering a new election. ' - Germany, according to a recent Madrid letter, had sent a note to the French Government demanding the placing of a French army on the Spanish frontier to prevent the sending of aid to the Cariists, or otherwise Germany would station an army there. The Ministers of Great Britain and France presented their credentials to President Serrano, of Spain, on the 4th. It was noticeable that both Ministers addressed Serrano personally and did not refer to the Spanish Republic. " ' f : ‘ - DOMESTIC. A census just completed by the local authorities in Minnesota gives ,552,000 as the present population of the State, and rates the taxable value of all property within its borders at s2ll,ooo,ooo—an average of a fraction over $393 per capita. A national convention is to be held at Louisville, Ky., Oct. 21, to consider the question of ihe removal of the national capital from Washington to the Mississippi Valley. TheJßusingt©n ■& Missouri River Railroad in Nebraska has given $5,000 to the Nebraska Relief and Aid Society, and the Union Pacific has given the same amount. The nloney will be used to supply food, fuel and clothing to frontier farmers whose props were destroyed bv grasshoppers. '4a collision occurred on the Utica & Chenango Valley Railroad on the 29th ult.. near Oxford, N. Y-, between a gravel and a passenger train, the former of which was standing on the main track and loading at the time of the accident. E. Childs, mail agent, was caught in the ruins of his ear and his body was burned. A fireman and a lady passenger were fatally injured, and several other persons were slightly bruised- The mail car amfccontents were burned up. A stopped' watcSTssaid to have caused the disaster.The international rifle match at Creedmoor, N. Y., between the American and Irish teams came off on the 26th and resulted in a victory for the former, they winning the match |»y three points only. According to the New York Tribune the

earnings of the Chicago, Milwaukee A .St. Paul Railroad fortlic third week iu September show a decrease of 47 pef cent, 'compared with tho.'O for the same tinn in 1873. It alsu. statesthat the official* of the !*t. Paul RailIroad say that the decrease in the earnings of 1 the NoythweMerp Railroad Is .somewhat I greater.' . - * g. The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has given | a decision, vacating so much or the order of the court excepting the Prairie du Chien Division of the Chicago, Milwaukee A St. Paul Railroad from the operations of the Potter law. - - A Washington dispatch of the 80th ult, s»\s reports received at the Agricultural Department show that the wheat crop will nearly average that of last year. None of the large corn-producing States reach an average. There will be a fair crop of,oats, potatoes and hay, but less than hsjf a crop of tobacco. Orders were issued at Washington on the SOUi ult. for four companies of cavalry to proceed to Western Alabama on account of the alleged disturbed condition of that section. A collision occurred on the “Allegheny Valley Railroad, near New Bethlehem, Pa., oh the 30th ult.,between a mail train and a freight train. Tile engineer and fireman of the mail train and a passenger named Henry Doyle were killed, an express messenger was fatally and a newsboy and a passenger were seriously injured. The baggage-car, containing the baggage, mail and express, was burned. The accident was caused by the telegraph operator .at New Bethlehem failing to hold the passenger train for orders, as directed. Considerable excitement has been reeently caused in Chicago and at the East over the threatened withdrawal from that city of the insurance companies represented in the National Board of Underwriters. Several companies ceased issuing policies on risks in Chicago on the Ist These companies allege that the facilities for extinguishing fires in the city are entirely inadequate, while the exposure to fire is so great that companies cannot afford to do business there. Certain demands have been made on the eity authorities, a compliance with which it is thought will materially lessen the danger of extensive conflagrations. A Madison (Wis.) special of the 80th ult. says both the Nortlrwesteru and the Milwaukee A St. Paul Railroads were about to comply with the Potter law, their agents having received the new schedule of rates for passengers and freights in accordance with the provisions of that law.

The public debt statement Oct. 1 makes the following showing: Six per cent, blinds $ 1 .'207.24,600 Five per cent, bonds 517.U2.V2U0 Total coin bonds $1,724,229,800 Lawful money debt $14,678,000 Matured debt' 6.457.710 Legal-tender notes 382.D75.407 Certificates of deposit 50.350,(XX) Fractional currency 4u.731.018 Coin certificates 36.415.600 Interest 32.ttf11.t77 Total debt 52.289.018,712 Cash in Treasury— Gain $77,409,677 Currency , 16,115,840 Special deposits held lor the redemption of certificates of deposit, as provided by law. 56.350.000 Total In Treasury .... . .... $149,875,517 Debt less cash in Treasury $2,139,743,195 Decrease during September ......-.j 435,417,= Bonds issued to the Pacific Railway Companies, interest payable in lawful money, principal outstanding $64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid. 909,352 Inkiest paid by the United States.. 24.325,896 Interest repaid by the transportation of mails, etc A 469.979 Balance of interest paid by United States 13,855,418 The Secretary of the Treasury has given notice that the principal and accrued interest of the following 5-20 bonds Of ISO 2 will be paid at the Treasury on aud after the Ist of January, 1575, and that the interest on said bonds will cease on that day. Coupon bouds: SSO Nos, 1,811 to 4,200, botli inclusive: SIOO, Nos; 1,967 to 6,200, inclusive; S3OO, Nos. 1,187 to 5,000, inclusive; SI,OOO, Nos. 4,871 to 14,900, inclusive—s9,ooo,ooo. Registered bonds: SSO, Nos. I.SOI to 1,820, both inclusive; SIOO, Nos. 15,901 to 14,150, inclusive; ssoo, No§. 7,951 to 8,070, inclusive; SI,OOO, Nos. 32,951 to 88,350, inclusive; $5,000, Nos. 10,151 to 10,260, inclusive; SIO,OOO, Nos. 12,501 to 13,200 inclusive — $1,000,000. Total, $10,000,000. Atty.-Gen. Williams has sent a circular to the United States Marshals in the Southern States suggesting to them the appointment of some prudent and fearless person as Deputy Marshal in remote parts in each district, to act at once in .the arrest of parties committing outrages in the vicinity, so that it may not be necessary in such cases to send for the United States Marshal before troops can be used for the purpose of arresting those guilty of violating the laws oUthe United States. The Wisconsin Supreme Court has decided that parents, and not teachers, have the right to determine what studies their children shall pursue in school. A New Orleans dispatch of the 2d says Gov. Kellogg had. upon the recommendation of the Advisory Board, removed Thomas H. Wynne, Assistant .Supervisor of the Second Ward, and William Davis, Clerk of the Second Ward, charged with obstructing registration, and appointed other persons to those positions—the first practical results of the conference agreement. A recent Washington dispatch says our Government is still pressing upon Spain indemnity for the Yirginius affair. The annual report of the Commissioner of Pensions will show 33,640 pension certificates issued the past fiscal year, of which, however, i only 9,783 were original certificates. The Comptroller of the Currency ha?lssued a circular calling upon the National Banks for reports of their condition at the close of business Friday, Oct. 2. The State Executive Committee of the Democratic and Conservative party of Alabama | hpve issued an address to the people of the | l nited States, denying the truth of the I charges made-by Minister Spencer, Congress* B : men White, Hayes and Pelham, and J. J. ; Martin as to outrages in that State, and ‘ alleging their untruth, and that such [ charges were made for the purpose of ini fiueuciqg the elections in the North and West ! and to procure Federal troops to be sent toj control the election in Alabama, i The Railway Commissioners of the North-’ I western States, recently in session at Madison, j Wis.,adopted a form for reports, so that the rail- ’ road statistics of Illinois. lowa, Minnesota i and Wisconsin will be collated and published ! in a uniform series of tables. The next meet—- ; ing will be held at Springfield on the 9ih qf : December, when the consideration of the subject jof legislation and classification will.be resumed. * A Charleston (S. C.) .dispatch states' that 10,0)X> voters of the city, black aiid white, assembled in mass-meeting on the night of the 3d, to demand from Gov. Moses the removal of the Board of, Election Commissioners, alleging that they are unscrupulous partisans.

I‘A committed was appointed to present to the Governor a petition for the removal of the ‘Commissioner.. I'HttWltt. Mias Catherine F... Beecher having published a statement relative to the ljreehcri eoutrrtMrftsy, in-which she makes certain aei eusutions against Henry.C. Buyout,qf the New ’ York / ivl'-jyrul&rtt, among other ftfings chargj ing him with being the.real originator of the ■ great scandal, Mr. Bowen has responded by j denying in fo7(7the _ ifllegaßbns bTsfisa Beecher : and emphatically declaring that he was not | the originator of tlie charges against Henry i Waul Beecher, and that the latter gentleman j never charged him f Bowen) with improper ; conduct. The banking-house of Townsend '& Co., of New Haven, Conn., has failed for $3,000,000. Its affairs are in the hands of a receiver. The greatest sufferers are among the laboring classes. The Grand Jury ot Kings County, N. Y. have found a criminal indictment against Francis D. Moulton for libeling Miss Edna Dean Proctor. Bail was fixed at $20,000, which was subsequently reduced to $3,000. Two prominent business houses in New York—Williamson, Griffith & Co., sugar refiners, and J allies Bi&hou A Co., importers and manufacturers of india-rubber—failed on the 29th ult. It was not thought other houses would lie involved in the ruin. The National Grange will meet at Charleston, S.C., on the 18th of November. The National congregational Connell convened at New Haven, Conn., on the 30th nit. Gov. Kellogg, of Louisiana, has issued an address to the people of the United States, in which he declares his willingness to have all his official acts subjected to a rigid and critical examination, Ife claims a-great reduction in State expenses and taxation for the current year as compared with the two preceding years. The marriage of Lieut. Thomas W. Fiteli, U. S. N., to Miss Maria E. Sherman, daughter of Gen. Sherman, occurred at Washington on the Ist. The marriage service was performed in St. Aloysius’ Church by Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, assisted by the resident clergy of the Catholic faith. The attendance of invited guests was very large, and the wedding presents numerous and costly. Mr. Elmer Washburn, formerly Police Superintendent of Chicago, has been appointed Chief of the Secret Service of the Government, Wre Wlrtroly, resigned.

Henry Ward Beecher attended the regular weekly prayer-meeting of Plymouth Church on the evening of the 2d, and met with an enthusiastic reception outlie part of his friends. The church building was crowded, many failing to obtain admission. Charles Sumner’s estate has been appraised and is valued at $1:14,758. Commodore Melanethon B. Woolsey, of the United States Navy, died at Pensacola, Fla., on the 2d, of yellow fever. He was fifty-six years of age. On the 3d Henry Ward Beecher appeared before the Grand Jury, in session at Brooklyn, and seeured thedndictmeut of TheQdore Tilton and Francis D. Moulton for malicious libel and slander. This action caused great excitement in Brooklyn. It is said that when Mivlieeeher gave his testimony he was in the highest degree emphatic, and declared that the allegations of Tilton and Moulton with reference to himself, Mrs. Tilton and another lady were “ atrocious falsehoods.” Samuel D. Morris, counsel for Mr. Tilton, says that Mr. Beecher has at last done What he was asked to do by Mr. Tilton in the opening of the controversy. In a letter to the press published on the 4th Mr. Tilton solemnly charges against Beecher, and demands immediate trial. lie declares that this tardy action by Mr. Beecher and his friends iu prosecuting him for libel can be attributed only to the fact that the verdict of the committee fails to command popular credence. Mr. Beecher preached to a large congregation in Plymouth Church on the 4th. y

POHTIfAL. The New York Liberal State Convention, in session at Albany on the ‘29th lilt., declared it unwise to make nominations for State officers. The Conservative and Republican Committees in New Orleans have effected a compromise by which it is agreed that the registration shall be committed to an Advisory Board to be composed of two Democrats, two Republicans and an umpire. Tin- Nevada Democrats have nominated L. R. Bradley for Governor, Jewett Adams for Lieutenant-Governor, and A. C. Ellis for Congress. The platform adopted opposes massed capital, subsidies, and a third term; condemns the back-salary grab; opposes Chinese immigration ; favors laws for regulating fares and freights; indorses the Eight-hour law; arraigns the Administration for its abus#" of power; demands the repeal of the bullion tax, and condemns the acts of violence recently perpetrated in the South. Congressional nominations on tlie 29th ult.: Republican—fifth Ohio District,. Reynolds M. Little.. Democratic—First Missouri, Edward C. Kehr; Second do, Erastus Wells, renominated; Third do, William 11. Stone, renominated. The .. Republicans of the Thirty-first New York District have renominated Lyman K. Bass for Congress. The Grand -Hotel, at Saratoga, N. Y., was burned o.n the Ist Loss over #300,000. Congressional nominations on the Ist; Democratic—First Tennessee District, William McFarland; Third Michigan, Fidus Livermore; Fourteenth New York, George M. Beebe. Republican—Fifth Tennessee, 11. H. Harrison, renominated; Twenty-seventh New York, T. C, Platt, renominated; Second Texas, F. W. Sumner; Sixth New Jersey, Marcus L. Ward, renominated. Reform—Eighth Wisconsin, G. W. Cate. Democratic-Liberal-Thirty -third New York, A. F. Allen, The Supreme Court of ludiana has decided constitutional the law providing for a special 'election of Judges and Attorneys of the judicial districts into which the State was divided by the Legislature in 18T3, Tlio following Congressional nominations wore made on the 2d; Democratic and Independent—Ninth Illinois District, L. F. Ross. Liberal—First Michigan, A. $: Williams. -The Nevada Independents have nominated a State ticket, composed of sevep Democrats, four Republicans and three Independents. For Governor, L, R. Bradley; LieutenantGovernor, A. J. Hatch; Congressman, A'. C. Ellis. ' _______ —Happy thought—That of the fashionable school-teacher who, when asked by a pppil, “ Who is the present King of Switzerland?” said: “This is not the hour, you know, when talking is permitted. Ask ine at the next session anil then I will tell you"—and then rushed for the book-case, —The silk factories of New Jersey employ 7.000 girls. ‘