Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1874 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Affairs in Spain— Carlist Ganse Still Waning. A Catholic Congress To Be Held in London. ■ Public Debt Statement for the Month of October. v S>. _ v } - . • , | Returns From the November Elections— Opposition Gains. ' Serious Railroad Accident Near Grand Rapids, Mich. r —- BtO,, —Stc., Etc., Etc., Etc. FOREIGN. A London dispatch of the 2d announces the finding and splicing of the direct cable lost by Faraday some months ago. A London telegram of the 4th says the j French Government had issued orders expelling all Spaniards from the frontier towns to prevent their participation in the attacks onlrunby Don Carlos. The bombardment of the latter town began on the morning of the 4th. A Berlin dispatch of the 4tl> says a representative assembly had been decided upon for Alsace and Lorraine. A Berlin dispatch of the sth says that the relations between Russia and Spain had assumed a thoroughly cordial character, and It was expected that she would soon recognize the Spanish Republic. A Bayonne of the sth says the troops under Jovellar had defeated the Carlists at Albocear with considerable loss. Large bodies of insurgents had offered to surrender at Maestrazzo. Gen. Lonia had cm, barked with eight battalions for the relief of Iran. u

A London dispatch of the sth says the chief authorities of the church had decided to hold a great international Catholic Congress in London, with the object of maintaining the doctrine of papal infallibility, reasserting the Pope’s right to temporal as well as spiritual power, and declaring it to be the bouuden duty of all Christians to return to the allegiance of Rome, ft is stated that this proposed Congress is the result of direct instructions from the Vatican. According to a Parisian dispatch of the fitl. Italy was about to issue a note to the European powers calling attention to the dangers likely to accrue from the intrigues of the Vatican; declaring that the Government could no longer tolerate a permanent conspiracy in its cwn capital, and urging the powers to discontinue the custom of maintaining axnbassadors at the Holy See. A dispatch from Hendays of the 6th says the Oarlists were hurling petroleum shells into Iran. The Carlists claimed that they had repelled two sorties of the garrison, and had taken measures to intercept the forces ■coming to its relief. A Rome dispatch of the 7th reports the sudden illness of the Pope, Corea has promised to send to Japan the heads of all those who had insulted the Government The Schleswig-Holstein question is under discussion between Denmark and Germany. The Danish Ministry on the 7th requested the Rigsdag not to interpellate the Government in respect to the alleged expulsion of Danes from Schleswig, pending the discussion. DOMESTIC. The Secretary of the Treasury has directed the Assistant-Treasurer at New York to sell $500,000 in gold each Thursday during the month of November. The aggregate will be $2,000,000. —" The public debt statement for October is as follows; —•—-- Six per cent. bonus.. $1.1F2,t83.*250 Five per cent bonds 538.525.&W Total coin bonds $1,720.706,450 LawfEi money debt 14.STH.0lW Matured debt gt.746.0ti0 Legal-tender notes 36i.075.3ti7 Certificates of deposi t 52.535,000 Fractional currency 46.151.025 Coin certificates. fci.o7W.4tXi Interest 37,115,670 Total debt $2.^.072.772 Cash in TreasureCoin $90,069,241 Currency 16.396.770 Special deposits held tor the redemption of certificates of deposit, as provided by law 52.525.CW0 Total in Treasury :.. $186,011,011 Debt less cash in Treasury $2,139,001,761 Decrease daring October .- 691.434 Bonds issued to the Pacific ‘Railway Companies, interest payable in—s--_—_— lawful money, principal outstandtag....7777. :... —v--.- $64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid. 1,292.470 Interest paid by the United States 24.325.3txi Interest repaid by the Transportation of mails, etc. 5,497.253 Balance of interest paid by United * States 15.525.14;> Gov. Allen, of Ohio, has issued a proclamation appointing Thursday, Nov. 26, as Thanksgiving Day. . A band of vigilants hung two horse-thieves at Allentown, Mo„ a small town on the Iron Mountain Railroad, sixty miles below St. Louis, on the night of the 2d. The dispatch adds that a mob had beefi 1 formed to burn the town, in retaliation for the h-nching. Gov. Beveridge, of Illinois,.nas issued his proclamation setting apart Nov. 26 as Thanksgiving Day. Atty.-Gen. Benny reports the final settlement of the war claims of the State of Indiana with the General Government, amounting to over $3,000,000. The balance due the State is $112,267.56, for which the State has secured a warrant on the United States Treasurer. ‘ “ The boss coopers of New York city held a meeting on the sth, at which it was resolved to insist on all men leaving the Coopers’ Union before being employed in any cooperage In the city. It was reported that in a large number of factories the. opposition to society men was being successfully sustained. Gov. Davis, of Minnesota, has designated the 26th inat as a day of thanksgiving and Braver. . . - -

I An Omaha dispatch of the sth says: “An officer sent from Fort McPherson, Neb., a few days ago by Gen. Ord, to visit all sec tions of the gn sahopper district, reports that lie i finds no case* of actual starvation, but much ! suffering, some of which has been relieved from various sources. Relief must be given or hundreds will starve before Winter is half over. Within ten days many .will be "W‘out a pound of corn or flour. T) c present aid they are receiving Is but a drop in the bucket unless th<! Government aids them. The alternative is fearful to contemplate..”The passenger train due at Grand Rapids, Mich., on the morning of the 6th was wrecked near Moline al>out 9 o'clock. The accident was caused bv the breaking of an axle under the tender, which ’ threw the rear passenger coach and sleeper off the track and turned them over on their sides. One old gentleman was killed and al»out thirty more or less injured. By the destruction by tire of O.C. Pa rin ley’s li'cry stable in Peoria, 111., on the tith one hundred valuable horses were burned to death. Thursday, Nov. 2d, has been designated Inflow I)ix, of New York, as a day of thanksgiving. Several prominent merchants of Memphis, Tenn., have been arrested and bound over to the United States Circuit Court in the sum of f2,<Wdcnrh, charged with, violating tbe Kflforcemeat act' In discharging colored men from their employ for refusing to vote the Democratic ticket last August. The Governor of lowa has set apart Thursday, Nov. 26, as Thanksgiving Day.. it has recently transpired that three children —two girls aged fifteen and thirteen, and one hoy aged ten—of John Martin, residing near Fort Wayne, Ind., were stolen on the Ist of October, and have not since been heard from. No reason for the abductions is known. The parents have been nearly distracted overl their loss, but kept quiet in hopes of gaining j a clew to the whereabouts of the missing I children. Several arrests have been made in Louisiana for alleged violations of the Enforcement act. Much excitement existed In Northern Louisiana on the 9th caused by the previous arrest, by Lieut. Hodgson and Marshal Solve, of parties without warraut, as is alleged, and by force of United States bayonets. The Lieutenant and Marshal -were subsequently brought before Judge Trimble, at Vienna, charged with contempt of court in disobeying a writ of corpus, and fined SIOO each and sentenced to ten days’ imprisonment in the parish jail. D. M. Jewett, United States Commissioner, had been indicted and arrested upon a warrant, charged with kidnaping. He was bound over in the sum of SI,OOO.

PERSONAL. Mayor Spencer, of Atlanta, Ga., and other prominent citizens have been arrested for violation of the Enforcement Act. The Protestant Episcopal Convention, which had been for some time in session in New York city, adjourned on tile 3d, and will hold its next session in Boston, 1877. Previous to adjourning a pastoral letter was issued. The widow of Gen. Rawlins, formerly Sec: rotary of War, died at a hotel in San Francisco on. the 6th. The Eastern insurance companies which withdrew their agencies front Chicago a few weeks ago are returning and resuming business in the city. POLITICAL. Diggs, County Solicitor, and Morgan, TaxCollector, Republicans, were arrested at Selma, Ala., on the 2d, under the Enforcement act. They were charged bran Independent Republican candidate for Tax-Collector with conspiring to intimidate colored men from voting tlie Independent ticket The United- States Commissioner .bound both over to the District Court. The Democrats of Washington, D. C., turned out in force on the night of the 4th to celebrate the recent victories. Leading Democrats were serenaded, among others Senator Thurman and the editor of the Washington Sentinel, both of whom responded in congratulatory terms. A riot occurred at the polls in Eurihila, Ala., on the Sd, originating, it is said, in the attempt of a negro to whip another negro for; voting the Democratic ticket The assailant drew a pistol, and the result was three negroes were killed and four mortally, seven seriously and eight slightly wounded. One white;was mortally, one seriously and three slightly wounded. Five or six hundred, shots were tired. Two congratulatory Democratic meetings were held in New York city on the evening of the sth, at which speeches were made # by Govemor-elect Tilden, Senators Thurman, Bayard, Stockton, Senator-elect Eaton, and others. According to the official returns the Republican majority in lowa at the October election is 39,000. A New Orleans dispatch of the 6th inst. says the Committee of Seventy had adopted a resolution inviting “the people of Louisiana to meet at their respective places of worship o* Thursday, Nov. 19, to return thanks to Almighty God for their deliverance -from political bondage.” The Conservative Committee of Seventy at New Orleans telegraphed to President Grant on the Stli stating that the Conservatives had been entirely successful at the recent election in Louisiana ‘and that thousands of colored citizens had voted the Conservative ticket, and protesting against the further occupation of the State by military forces and requesting their withdrawal. They say that “with the return of our people to power we assure you that the civil law will become supreme, that its sacred obligations will be recognized both by the ruler and the ruled, and that there will be ample protection guaranteed to life,and liberty within our borders,” A New York dispatch of the-Sth says there were 193 deaths from diphtheria in that city during the previous two weyks, and. that a scientific investigation was likely to be made into the causes of the prevalence of that disease, with a view to sweeping measures of prevention. TPIE STATE ELECTIONS. The latest news received up to the morning of the 9tb from the recent State elections indicated the following'results: ILLINOIS. The Opposition have probably gained six Congressmen. The following are elected: First District, B. G. Caulfield, Dent., gain; Second, C. H, Harrison. Dent., gain (doubtful); Third, C. B.Farwell. Rep., re-elected; Fourth, Stephen A. * Hurlbut, Rep., re-elected: Fifth, Horatio C. Burchard, Rep., re-elected; Sixth, Thomas J. Henderson, Rep.; Seventh, Alexander Campbell, Ind. (probably) { Eighth, Greenbury L. Fort, Rep., re-elected; Ninth,

Richard H. Whiting, Rep.; Tenth, John C. Bagbv, Ind- (probahlvi; Eleventh, Scott Wikc, Dent.; Twelfth. William M. Springer, Dciii.; Thirteenth, Adlai']s. Stevenson, 'Dem., gain; Fourteenth, Joseph—G.. Cannon, Hep., re-elected; Fifteenth, John R. Eden, Dem., re-elected; Sixteenth, William A. J. Sparks, iK'in., gain (probably); Seventeenth, William R.- Morrison, Di m., ye-clecte.d; Eighteenth, William llartzcll, Dem., gain; Nineteenth, William B. Anderson, Ind. (probably). Mr. Ridgwuv, Rep., is probably elected State Treasurer, aha Etter, Opp., State School Superintendent The legislature will he composed as follows: Senate —Republicans, 24; Democrats, 26; Independents,4. House— Republicans,66; Democrats,6s; Independents, OO WISCONSIN. The State Legislature is probably Republican in both branches. T,be Congressional delegation is probably as follows: First District, Clras. G. Williams, Rep., re-elected; Second, Luctettß. Caswell, Rep.: Third, Henryk. Magqon, Rep.; Fourth, William Pitt Lynde, Reform; Fifth, Samuel D. Bureliard, Reform; Sixth,! Alansou M. Kimball, Rep.; Seventh, Jeremiah M. Rusk. Rep., re-elected; Eighth, Alexander S. Me Dill. Rep., re-elected. MICHIGAN. —r- —: —- •The new Constitution overwhelmingly defeated. The woman suffrage amendment also defeated, but it received a larger vote than was generally expected.’ Fagley, Rep., for Governor, Is elected by-a majority of about .2,000. Balance of State ticket Republican. The Republicans have a majority in the Legislature on joint ballot. Congressmen elected: First District, A. 8. Williams, Dem., gain; Second, Henry Waldron, Rep., 're-elected; Third, George Willard, Rep:, re-elected; Fourth, Allen Potter, Dene, gai i f; “FiTtTi, William B. Willijitus, Hep., re-elected; Sixth, George H. Durand, Dem., gain; Seventh, OmarD.Gongef, Rep., re-elected; Eighth, N. B. Bradley, Rep., re-elected; Ninth, Jay A. Huhbell, Rep., re-elected. KANSAS. Osborne, Rep.,. re-elected Governor by about 12,000 majorltv. Congressional delegation: First District, Wm. A. ghjllips, Rep., re-elect-ed; Second, John K. Goodin, Ref., gain; Third, Win. R. Brown, Rep. Legislature Republican. ' i MISSOURI. Hardin, Dem., elected Governor by about 35,000 majority. Legislature Democratic by a large majority. The following Congressmen are probably, elected; First District, E. C. Kelir, Dem., gain: Second, Erastus Wells, Dem., re-elected; Third, William H. Stone, l)em., re-elected; Fourth, Robert A. Hatcher, Dem-, re-elected; Fifth, Richard P. Bland, Dem., re-elected; Sixth, Ghas. H. Morgan, Dein.,gain; Seventh, John F. Phillips, Dem.; Eighth, Benjamin J. Franklin, *Dem.; Ninth, David Rea, Dem., gain; Tenth, R. A. Deßolt, Dem., gain; Eleventh, John B. Clark, Jr., Dem., re-elected; Twelfth, John M. Glover, Dem., re-elected; Thirteenth, Aylett H. Buckner, Dem., re-elected. > ’ MASSACHUSETTS. Win. Gaston, Dem.; elt-eUnl Governor over Talbot by about 7,000 plurality. Balance State officers Republican. Congressmen elected: First District, James Buffington, Rep., reelected; Second, Benjamin W. Harris, Rep., re-elected; Third, Henry L. Pierce, Rep., reelected; Fourth, Rufus S. Frost, Rep.: Fifth, Nathaniel P. Banks, Inch, gain; Sixth, Charles P. Thompson, Deni., gain (over Butler); Seventh, John K. Tarbox, Dem., gain; Eighth, Wiiliam W. Warren, Dem, gain; Ninth, George F. Hoar, Rep., re-elected; Tenth, Julius H. Seelye, Ind., gain; Eleventh, Chester W,Chapin, Dem., gain. The Legislature, which is largely opposed to prohibition, will stand: Senate, Rep. 24; Dem. 10; House, Rep. 151; Dem. 85. —;: — 1 —— v

NEW TORN. Tilden, Dent., for Governor, has a majority of from 30,000 to 40,000. State Assembly . Democratic by about twenty majority. The Congressional delegation will probably stand as follows: ’First District. H. B. Metcalf, Dent., gain; Second, John G. Schumaker, Dent., re-elected; Third, Simeon B. Chittenden; Rep.; Fourth, Archibald M. Bliss, Dent., gain; Fifth, Edwin R. Meade, Dent.; Sixth, Samuel S. Cox, Dem., re-elected; Seventh, Smith Ely, Jr.,*rDem.; Eighth, Elijah Ward, Dem., gain; Ninth, Fernando Wood, Dem., re-elected; Tenth, Abram S. Hewitt, Dent., gain; Eleventh, Benjamin A. Willis, Dem., gain; Twelfth, N. Holmes Odell, Dem.; Thirteenth, John G. Whitehouse, Deni., re-elected.; Fourteenth, George M. Beebe, Dent.; Fifteenth, John H. Bagley, Jr., Detn., gain; Sixteenth, Chas. H. Adams, Rep., gain; l Seventeenth, Martin I. Townsend, Rep.; Eighteenth, Andrew Williams, Rep,; Nineteenth, William A. Wheeler, Rep.; Twentieth, Henry H. Ilatliorn, Rep.; Twenty-first, Samuel F.Miller, Rep.; Twentysecond, Qeo. A. Bagiev, Rep.; Twenty-third, Scott Lord, Dem., gain; Twenty-fourth, William H. Baker, Rep.; Twenty-fifth, Elias W. Leavenworth, Rep.; Twenty-sixth, Clinton D. MacDougall, Rep., re-elected; Twenty-sev-enth, David A. Pierpout, Dem., gain; Twentyeighth, Thomas C. Platt, Rep., re-elected; Twenty-ninth, Chas. C’. B. Walker, Dem., gain. Thirtieth, John M. Davy, Rep.; Thirtyfirst, George G, Hoskins, Rep., re-elected; Thirty-second, Asher P. Nichols, Dam., gain; Thirty-third, Walter L. Sessions, Rep., reelected. PENNSYLVANIA. ' Democratic on the State ticket by front 3,000 to 9,000 majority. Legislature Democratic on joint ballot. Congressmen elected: First District, Chapman Freeman, Rep.; Second,Chas. O'Neill, Rep., 're-elected; Third, Samuel J. Randall, Dent., re-elected; Fourth, William D. Kelley, Rep., re-elected; Fifth, John Robbins, Dem., gain; Sixth, Wash. Townsend, Rep., re-elected; Seventh, Alan Wood, Jr., Rep.; Eighth, iliester Clytner, Dem., reelected; Ninth, A. Herr Smith, Rep., reelected; Tenth, William Mutchler, Dem., gain; Eleventh. Frank D. Collins, Dem.; Twelfth, Winthrop Ketehum, Rep.; Thirteenth. James B. Reilly, Dem., gain; Fourteenth, John B. Packer, Rep.,’ re-elected; Fifteenth, Joseph Powell, Dent.; Sixteenth, Sobieski Ross., Rep., re-elected; Seventeenth, John Reilly. Dem.; Eighteenth, William & Stenger, Dem., gain; Nineteenth, Levi Maish, Dem., gain; Twentieth, Louis A. Mackey, Dent., gaiir; Twenfy-tirst, Jacob Turney, Detn., gain; Twenty-second, James H. Hopkins, Dent., gain; Twenty-third, Alexander G. Cochran, Dem., gain; Twenty-fourth, Joint W. Wallace, Rep:; Twenty-fifth, George A. Jenks, Dem., gain; Twenty-sixth, James Sheaklev, Dent., gain; Twenty-seventh, Albert G. fegbert, Dent., gain. NEW J ERSEY. •Judge Bedle, Dem., is elected Governor by about 12,000 majority, Legislature Democratic by 11 majority. The Congressmen elected art.-: First District, Clement H. Sinniekson. Rep.; Second. Samuel A,Dobbins, Rep.,, re-elected; Third, Miles Ross, Deni., gain; Fourth, Robert Hamilton. Dem., -reelected; Fifth, Wm. W. Phelps, Rep., reelected; Sixth, Frederick 11. Teese, Deni., gain; Seventh, Aug. A. Hardenburg,Dem. •VIRGINIA. Congressmen elected: First District, B. B. Douglas, Dent., gain; Second, James H. Platt, Jr.. Rep., re-elected; Third, Gilbert C. Walker. Gem., gain : Fourth, William H. H. Mowed, Rep., Ve-elected; Fifth, George C. Cabell. Item., gain; Sixth, John R. Tucker Dem.: Seventh, John T. Harris, Item., reelected; Eighth, Epca Hunton. Item., re- ■ elected; Ninth, William Terry, Item. TENXEStHE. ..State Democratic b£,-W,OOO to 50,000 majority. Legislature largejy Democratic. Congressmen elected: First District. Win. Me- j Fariand, Deni., gain; Second, Jacob M. Thornburg, Rep., re-elected: Third, George G. Dibreil, Detn., gain: Fourth, John W. Head, Dem., gain'; Fifth, John M. Bright, Dem., re-elected; Sixth. John F. House, Dem., gain; Seventh, Washington C. Whittherne, Dem.. re-elected; Eighth. John D. C. Atkins. Item., re-elected; Ninth, William P. Caldwell. Dem., gain; Tenth, H. CaseyYoung, Deth., gain. KBNTICKT. All the ten Congressional districts probably Democratic. Democratic gains on the vote throughout the State. ' LOUISIANA. The Conservative State Central Committee regard the election of Moncure, their State Treasurer, as certain. Many colored people voted ■ the Conservative ticket. The Demoefiats probably gain five Congressmen. MINNESOTA. Legislature Opposition on joint ballot Con-

gressmen elected: Mark 11. Dunnc'l, Rep., in the First District, re-elected; H. B. Strait, Rep., re-elected, in the Beeond; Win. 8. King Rep., in the Third. Republican majority in the State on Chief Justice about 5,000. MAR VI-A NO. The, six Congressmen all Democratic—a gain of two. — ARKANSAS. The Democrats elect the four Congressmen c —a guln of three. GEORGI A. * The entire Congressional delegation, nine in number, Democratic—a gain of two. RHODE ISLAND. The Republican* elect both Congressmen in tliis State. 1 t • SOUTH CAROLINA. D. H. Chamberlain, Rep., elected Governor by from 10,000 to 2HJXX) majority. The five Congressmen are all Republican.” ALABAMA." The Democrats elect six Congressmen certainly—a gain of two. Many cotored voTers supported the Conservative ticket. Legislature Democratic. Democratic majority on State ticket from 10,(XX) to 12,000. DELAWARE. Returns incomplete, hut all three counties probably Democratic. Janies Williams, Dem. (gain), elected to Congress. —- VERMONT. Dennison, Ind., in the Second District, is elected over Pqland, Rep., by a large majority. TEXAS. Returns from the principal towns show a large Democratic majority in every district. The Congressional delegation of six is Democratic. , FLORIDA. Both districts probably elect Republicans -"to—CtmgressrLegislature —Demm-r.rtit—by-twenty majority. ARIZONA. The election of Stevens, Ind., to Congress by about 200 majority is generally conceded. NEVADA. Woodburn, Rep,, is probably elected to Congress. Bradley, Dem., for Governor, probably elected by about 1,000 majority. Legislature probably Republican. WASHINGTON TERRITORY. O. Jacobs, Rep., is elected Delegate to Congress by about 500 majority. There will be an Opposition majority of over sixty in the next lower House of Congress. The Benate will remain Republican by about nine majority.