Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1874 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Count Von Arnim Under Arrest at Berlin. Carlists Giving Themselves I p and Asking For Pardon. Applications From Southern States for United States Troops. The Louisiana Difficulties To Be Solved by a Recount of Votes. Interesting Grange Statistics—The National Grange. Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc. FOREIGN. The Catholic Vicar of Posen, Germany, basing disobeyed 11,1 order to leave the country within twelve hours, has been forcibly ejected. “Barry Cornwall,” 4 the English author, died on the sth. The Sultan of Moroceo-has issued a decree prohibiting the export of cereals for three -.years.- »-■ 1 ?■-. At Northampton, England, on the 6th, after the declaration of the vote by which Bradlaugh was defeated for Parliament, a mob of his supporters inaugurated a riot which the police were unable to quell. The military were at last called out, and in the struggle w hich followed many qwrsons were _ A Madrii dispaUli .of tlie TUi-says the Carlists had been again defeated at Igualada with a severe less in killed and wounded. A report that Don Carlos had been seriously wounded at Durango is pronounced untrue. A special to the London Post of the 7th declares that anarchy reigned in The Turcomans were plundering tribes friendly to Russia, and her armed intervention was thought to be inevitable. Count Von Arnim, late German Ambassa dor to Paris, was recently arrested at the instance of Bismarck, who charged that he had concealed important State documents and was about to publish them. A London dispatch of the Sth says the affair had taken a very serious turn, and that the Emperor had ordered that no stone be left unturned to recover the missing papers. The Count had denied that there was any intention of publishing State secrets, and intimates that the documents were removed from the archives of the em-. bassy without his knowledge. A Rome dispatch of the same date says the missing documents relate to the establishment of a new Government in France and to German iuter- ’ Terence with Spanish affairs. A Madrid dispatch of the Sth says that Spain had disbanded 16,600 soldiers, the period for which they enlisted hiving expired. A Madrid dispatch of the 10th says -many Carlists were coming into Barcelona and Tarragona and asking for amnesty. Nineteen natives of Navarre in the Carl'st army had been shot for insubordination. An explosion had recently occurred at Aspatia, in the building used for the manufacture of cartridges for the CariisTs, wlffch caused the instant death of eighteen persons. The London Tima of the 10th had advices from Vienna to the effect that the SchleswigHolstein question would be referred to the arbitration of the Queen. Count Vdn Arnim, on account of the serious condition of his health. has been removed to a sanitarium near Berlin. DOMESTIC. A Washington dispatch of the sth says the Commissioners to settle the affairs of the Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company had w ritten to a correspondent to the effect that it was impossible to say when a dividend would be paid. They had only $45,066 of the s6oo,Otto required for' a dividend of 20 per cent. It had been determined to close the thirtythree branches 1 at the end of this month. A number of Texas steers, which arrived in New York on the evening of the 4th, while passing through the lower part of the,city, became infuriated by the noises and lights, and eight of them broke from the drovers, rushing in various directions. Before the steers were shot nearly fifty people were injured by them, some seriously. , A recent dispatch from the United States Marshal at Montgomery, Ala., announces the arrest of several persons charged with complicity in the murder of one W. P. Billings in August last. he New York Tima the- sth publishes- A , dispatch from New Orleans stating that, upon the arrival of the United States' troops at Coushatta, some fifteen White Leaguers who were engaged in the recent murders at that place left town and fled to Arkansas and Texas. A letter was received at the Postoffice Department in Washington on the sth from a special agent sent to investigate the murder of a colored route agent in Alabama, a little over a month ago, which says: ” The reign of terror existing in this country at present far exceeds anything of the kind I have ever seen. Armed bodies of men are riding over the country, and colored people are afraid to go into the fields? to save their crops from waste and ruin.” This letter is dated “In the Woods, near Livingston, Sumter County, Ala., Sept. 29.” The Conservative State Central Committee of Louisiana has issued an address to the people in which they claim that the White Leagues were organized as an offset to Black Leagues, composed of colored men, which at one time, they say, were numerous ’‘throughput the State. - - i -- ‘ ~ There will be a total eclipse of the moon On the night of the 24th inst, visible in ’this cotin try. The eclipse will begin a little before midnight and end about three o’clock on the morning Of the 25th, the total occursing about one o’clock. Washington dispatches of the 7th state that applications for troops were constantly reaching the War Department from Alabama, Tennessee and Louisiana. Gen. Sheridan had

been requested to spare a regiment from his command and the Thirteenth Infantry had been ordered to re]»ort to the Department of the South. The Secretary of War says if he were required to comply with all the applications received it would be necessary to largely tHUfeasc the force - of the army. ~ C. C, Warren, of Princeton, 111., has obtained judgment for SI,OOO against the Chicago, Burlington At Quincy Railroad for extortionate passenger and freight .Thargesr,;. • The Grand Jury at Salt City, Utah; have indicted one of their own number, Thomas E. Ricks, for polygamy. He is cha rged-wi t-h ha ving-ti ve w i vex, three of -wlioni were married to him *incelS6A- His own da tighter is one of the principal witne-xt.es. The Attorney-General of Wisconsin lias stipulated with the general solicitor of tlie Chicago A Northwestern Railway’ Company to unitedly ask the United States Supreme Court to take up the railroad case appealed from the United States District--Court at Madison, and set it down for trial on the TOth day of December next. Gov. Kellogg, in a reply to a recent address of the Conservative State— Committee, -assertshis anxiety to secure a full registration and a fair election, and declares his willingness to do all in his power to that end. Postmaster-Gen. Jewell has expressed a determination to do away with Claim agents in the transaction of department business with railroad or other corporations or individuals. He prefemiealing with parties directly interested.

At Buffalo, recently, the United States detectives arrested Thomas Ballard, alias John Davis, one of the most expert counterfeiters and engravers in the country; also Elizabeth Ballard and Ann Adams, accomplices. In their possession was found $16,060 in counterfeit money of various denominations, together with press, dies, plates, etc. A New Orleans special of theJTth _says Frank Morey, Congressman from thcrFifth District, had sent a communication to 8. B. Packard, Chairman of the Republican State _Central Committee, stating thatintiinidation, organized and thorough, prevailed in the parish of Union to such an extent that not more than SOOof the colored voters would register. He stated further that a similar state of things existed in some of the other parishes. The commission charged with the duty of investigating the, facts in regard tQ4.be killingpf live Osage Indians by the Kansas iiiilit.ia finds that tlie attack was unprovoked and utterly unjustifiable, and recommends that the United States Government should see that the Osages are reimbursed for loss of property captured by the attacking party. New Orleans advices of the 10th state that the supporters of Gov. McEnery had accepted the proposition of Gov. Kellogg to test the question of the Louisiana State Government by a canvass of the actual returns, and all parties to abide by tlie result. These returns could be produced and authenticated at any time. A telegram of tlie 9th from the Assistant United:States Attorney at Denison, Tex., says eleven Ku-Khix prisoners had just been brought to that place from Montague by a Deputy Marshal and his assistants?--PERSONAL. David Valentine & Co., of New York, silk importers, have failed, with liabilities of $500,660. Kupfcr & Silverman, dealers in woolen goods, suspended on the sth, and Clews & Co., bankers, had also stopped payment, but expected to resume shortly. The failure; of 11. B. Patterson, broker was announced in New York on the 6th. There were also rumors on Wall street of trouble in all departments of trade, and tlie utmost use was made of them to depress stocks, and with good success. • President Grant arrived at St. Louis on the night of the sth. On the Ist day of October* according to an official bulletin issued by the Secretary of tlie National Grange, there were in the several States 26,788 subordinate Granges. Duping. the preceding month 469 new Granges had been - institutedr The next session of—Hie National Grange will be held in Charleston, 8. C., on the first Wednesday in Februarv. 1575. The Rev. Dr. T. M. Eddy, formerly of Chicago, and Missionary Secretary of tlie Methodist Episcopal Church, died in New York on the 7th, aged fifty-one years. ThesGrand Jury of St. Paul, Minn., have found twenty-six indictments against Mr Charles Mellrath, late State Auditor of Minnesota, for alleged malfeasance in office. At a recent meeting of the Chicago Presbytery Prof. David Swing presented a letter in which, after avowing hiniself “ a Presbyterian in thvsense in which the vast majority of clergymen wearing that name are Presbyterians," he declared himself independent and asked the presbytery to drop his name from its roll. The request was' granted by a vote of 18 to 11, and resolutions were adopted to the effect that this action was taken with great reluctance and declaring warm personal regard for Mr. Swing. The President has appointed Charles G. Hammond, of Chicago, a member of the Board of Indian Commissioners. The committee of the Presbytery of Jersey City, N. J., have presented charges and specifications against the Rev. John S. Gler.denning, of seduction, breach of promise, etc. It is said the father of Charley Ross, the abducted -Philadelphia boy—whose whereabout s have - not yet been—ascertained, uotwithstanding the large rewards and great efforts put firth for his recovery—has become crazed with grief and because of slanderous reports which have been published concerning himself and family. POLITICAL. Congressional nominations on the sth: People's Party-*-First Illinois District, B. G. Caulfield: Second District C. H. Harrison; Third DistrictrJ. V. LeMoyue. Democratic—Fourth Arkansas, Thomas M. Gunter; Twelfth Ohio, William E. Fink. M. J. Townsend has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Seventeenth New York District. The State Republican Convention of Massachusetts met at Worcester on the 7th. Gov. Talbot was renominated on the first ballot, receiving 755 of the 1.042 votes cast. Horatio G. Knight wa's th A choice for Lieutenant Governor, Oliver Warner j for Secretary of the Commonwealth, Charles R. Train for Attorney-General, Charles Endicott Auditor, and Oharies Adams, Jr., for Treasurer. The resolutions adopted declare in favor of a sound currency and such legislation by Congress as shall place the currency on a par with gold; express gratitude to the Ph-sident for his promptness in suppressing the New Orleans outbreak: declare that the Republican party has proved itself Under all circumstances the party of progress and .reform, etc. The election in Georgia on the Tth for members of the State Legislature passed bff quietly.

But little opposition, except in a fpw counties, was made to the Dcm<K-n(tle candidates. The Deni6cratlc majority on Joint ballot will be altOUt-W'. ■».. ..ri Congressional nomlnejioiis- on the 7th; 'Democratic—First Michigan District, A. 8. ’'Winianis;”BUebli<r -- Keiitucky, John Young Brown, rehominated; Fourteenth Illinois, J. IL Pickrell. Republican—Fifth Wisconsin, John Uoi-hrany. Republican'and Independ*‘yltrTcnth Missouri, Ira B. Hyde. The Democrats of tlie Twenty-eighth New York Congressional District have nominated Edward 8. Esty (Liberal) for Congress. The Conservatives, of South Carolina, at their recent State Convention, resolved to support the candidates—for Governor ami Lieutenant-Governor nominated by the Independcfir Itepuhlican party. They also declared their platform to be honesty and economy in tlie administration’ of the State Government. ~. ' Jolin Means is tlie Republican candidate for Congress-tn the Tenth Kentucky District. Ail .-lection was held in Delaware on the Bth for Inspectors and Assessors to conduct'the election iii November. The Democrats carried the day by an aggregate majority of about 450. . ♦ The Tammany Democrat* of Naw York city have nominated Win. 11. Wickham for Mayor.