Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1874 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

The Carlists Ataidon the Siege --,7- of Iran. • Unsuccessful Attempt to Mirier the Cut of Russia. Robbery «r nn Expren« Train om the CL W. Railway. The Tiltea-Beecher end ProcterMoulton Srits. >■ hriMutiar ty f. V. Smill Baxter's Lieitttaottowr, h the IWt of Arkusu. He Ctalas To Be New the Rightful Governor of She State. Arnry, Postoffice -and Other Departmental Reports. Thousand Needy Peef»le in Kansas rnd Nebraatas. liaterestirm News From All Quarters.

PORKION. A Berlin dispatch of the 9th says the ft* st attempt of the Prussian Government to heve priests elected by the congregations kail taken place at landsberg. It had resulted in utter failure, enly eleven persons having voted. An application had beentnade to the Ecclesiastical Court for the deposition of the Bishop of Paderborn. A Paris dispatch of the 9th mentions the marriage of tue Prince Imperial with the Russian Grand Duchess Marie as a pro! able event. The Archbishop of Tours, Mons. Fruchand, died on the 9th. A Trieste dispatch of the 10th says the Turkish authorities had captured thirty of the leaders in the recent outrages perpetrated on Montenegrin Christians in Podgoritca. A Paris telegram of the 11th says a niovement had been made in the Department of the Seine for free schools and computecry edu- ~ cation. . ' ’' Madrid dispatches of the 12th any tec Carlists had lost heavily at Irun but . Lad succeeded in carrying off their guns. Gen. Laserna had entered the city and . arrested a number of incendiaries and would'try them by drum-head court-martial. The Carlists before leaving their positions had burned the houses of .Republican ~— A Berlin dispatch of the 12th arnoutiees the re-arrestof Count von Arnim. Snow fell in the southern counties of England on the Ilth and the weather was unusually cold. St. Petersburg telegrams of the IStZi say the Government bad decided to introduce free schools and compel the children to all nd them. A socialist conspiracy had been discovered in Moscow. An unsuccessful attempt had been made to murder the Czar, and numerous arrests had been made. London was wild with excitement on the morning of the 13th over a report of Queen Victoria’s death. It happily proved untrue. Hendaye dispatches of the 13th say the Republican troops were in hot pursuit of the retreating Carlisle, and were burning the houses of Car list sympathizers. Over "SOO had already been destroyed and the occupants —driven to the surrounding mountains, which ware covered with snow. It was reported that the Carlists held Andoain in a good defensive position, and meant to fight again. As the express train on the Great Western Railway was leaving Port Credit, a station a few miles from Toronto, on the evening of the If’th. five masked men boarded her, unfastened the bell-cord, bound and gagged the baggagemaster, and then entered the apartments of the American Express Company, whose mes. aangvr they gagged, blindfolded and handcuffed. They then took the keys of the safe from him, and secured from $30,000 to s*o,ooo, Information recently received in diplojiiatic circles in Washington confirms the report that Spain has paid her indemnity to England growing out of the Virginius affair Berlin dispatches «f the 14th say the second •Brest of Von Arnim had caused a painful impression throughout Germany, and that the moderate newspapers had insisted upon an explanation by the Government. Several cf the missing documems had been found said forwarded to the Government, ■. . DOMESTIC. A daughter of T. C. Batten, of Milton Junetioe., was burned to death the other evening by a can exploiting while she was budding e fire with kerosene oil. Mr. Buten, white attempting to extinguish the flames, had his right hand so badly burned that fears were entertained that he woiild lose it The Chicago Journal of tfce Bth says LieutGen. Sheridan had returned to his headquarters from Fart Bill and the Indian country. He report* that the Indians who had been on the war-path were pretty thoroughly subdued, having surrendered their arms and ponies to the Government troops. He anticipated no further difficulty in that quarter. Prof. A_ B. Smith, ex-PresiAent of the Arkansas -Yalley Collegiate Institute, publishes in the St Lotus papers of the 10th a statement te which he says there are fully 40,000 people in Kansas and Nebraska whb are either now or will shortly be in Absolute want of the necessaries-of life. There waa recently received at New York from Cologne, France, a mail which should have been forwarded Oct IS, 1872, since wftieh time it had been snaccounUbly misplacaC in French offices. >-, Several of the Eastern manufacturers ft fancy cassimeres hare agreed to stop 35 per cent of their machinery for three months, becausa of the present low price of their productions. A telegram of the 10th states that 200 men had been discharged from the Brooklyn NavyYard and that a further reduf’tiPß of the JQW would soon he made.

A dispatch received at 8L Lou)# on the' 10th from Gen. Pope,' r through Gen. Sheridan, announces that Big' Horn, a ChcyeWnv chief, with ’ twenty warriors, forty-eight women, twepty-niue children and over 900 horses, surrendered uncondlstonally toCol.Hall, at the Chcycnnv Agency, on Nov. 4. Hie warriors were heN in confinement. A dispatch from New Orleaw 1 on the St* says: "Avery sharp letter to the War Departmeathas heen written byTVesident Ort*w, of the Western Union Telegraph Compwry, demanding why, in a time of peace, feb-ir wire* were cut, and the matter has been referred to Gen. Emory for a report.” In Terre Boq,ne Parish. La., on the Sth, a negro Sheriff who was elected o* the mtnpromhm ticket , was attacked by seven othJr negroes Simms rar from Che party three s< uares, and being pursued, tnrned upon them and tirof, killing | one and wounding ar other. Simms immediately surrendered himself and wis sent to jail. Judge Trimbh on the Ut> at the instance c.f citizens, remitted the fine and revoked the order of imprison;* l nt against Lieut. Hodgson. Selye was stS’i in prison. Five S?. MartinsviLe prisoners, charged with violating the Enforcement act, hate given bondr for their appearance before the United States Circuit Court.

The "Bee-'Keepers 1 Assock.fioh of North America met inbourth annua’, session in Pitts, burgh on the 11 th. h i A counterfeitiive.-dollarnete on the Trade National Bank of Chicago made its appearaace in Philadelphia on the 11th. The Chicago dailies of the 12th state that tfie Baltiinore-ifc Ohio and the Grank Trunk Kailroads had refused fc> join the fa* ous Saratoga agreement, whereby the Eastern fines hoped to control the freight tariT between the West and the East. The Ti-Hium says that the announcement that the c.bovenamed roads “ had not joined the coribination was greeted with much satisfaction by the managers of the Western of whom, with a single exception, look very unfavorably upon the compact." An Omaha dispatch of the It th sr.ys Gen. Ord had received notice that the CommissaryGeneral had decided that the supplies were barely sufficient f<r the subsisted eof the army, therefore no rations could be issued to the sufferers from the grasshoppers in Nebraska. CoL Dudley, United Slates army, lead completed the inspection of tliejjrasshopper district, and had furnished an elaborate report of facts Many settlers would-be destitute of food in a few days; the buffaloes had gone, the domestic animals were mere skeletons, and the resources of the Nebraska Aid Society would be entirely inadequate. According to t, Salt Lake dispatch of the 11th snow-storms had completely blocked the roads in the several mining di triets. The winter business prospects were discouraging. The Secretary of the Interior has reversed the decision of Commissioner ummond, of the General. Land Office, oiilhe_23d_of„Jffnu ary, ISM. refusing to consider ar account in favor of Nebraska for 5 per cent, of the value of public lands lying within h r limits, ineluded wlthinthe reservalionwmade by treaties with Indians Thw account *wilL be, there: fore, at ohoe prepared and forwarded ,to the Treasury Department. This decision will cont rol the p; riding claims from several other States. At Moutroae, Pa., on the 12th Daniel O’Mara and Patrick Irving were hanged for the murder of O’Mara's mother and sister in September of last year. At Westchester, Pa., on the same day, William E. I'dderzook wer executed by hanging for the murder in June, 182Uof.Winfield S. Goat his partner in a G onsyiracy to defraud insurance companies. A convention of the temperance women of Massachusetts met at BoSton cu the 12th. Further failures of business firms are reported in -X-.iw York .city. It is said that at least 10,000 men and women in New York city are out of employment, and that whole families are without the neeessa- | ries of life Hundreds are daily gathering at ; the doors of the St. John's Guild clamoring for i food, and the treasury of tho Guild is com- ! pletely exhausted. ■ A dispatch from Camp Supply, in the In- | dian Territory, dated Nov. 7, tells the story ! of a light cn McClellan Creek the previous day between twenty-eight men of the Eighth Cavalry, under Capt..lL J. Farnsworth, and 100 Cheyennes. The United States troops lost one kiU d and four wounded, and the Indians lost fifteen killed. It is stated in Washington that Postmaster- ! Geu. Jewell niphaticaliy disclaims intend- ' ing to recomr-iend any increase in the present , rales of postage. On the contrary, he thinks I letter postage should be reduced whenever it ' shall be found possible to materially diminish ' the expenditures for carrying mails without t depriving the public of existing facilities. The appendix to Treasurer Spins r’s report ;>hows:

L , RECEIPTS. j Receipts for the fiscal years 76!. 799.530 88 ' Including loans 43t.272..VJ5 46 ■ Customs 163 in.3.B:>> 69 I Internal revenue 102 409.784 90 i Lands 1.852.428 93 I Miscellaneous, 4tL942,4irr84 ■ Repayments, etc...from War DeI p.vr’unem 4.710.805 37 j Repayments, etc,from Navy De- | partmeut 74144.758 61 ■ Repayments, etc., .from Interior . , Department. 2,162975 05 jgp'ENDIT CUES. The expenditures vtere5742,247,173 35 Including the *oUection of cusi toms...: 23,061,804 93 Internal revenue 5.795e.(C>4 14 : lnterior'Departmeu’,.7.“,.. 37.893,851.8t> i Interior Department .civil 4,876-673 46 ■ War Department 47.024,732 59 ! Navy Department .. 88.277.346 06 . Treasury Department4B,46s4'sß 01 I Diplomatic.^...., 1.471.415 ‘7 ; Quarterly salaries 607,102 18 ‘judiciary 3.460.808 08 ’ Public debt 531.3te.683 13

The balance in the Treasury June 30 wus $150,731,533.63, against .$131,178,137.31 June 3Q, .1873. The net receipts of the Postoftte*. Department were $11,560,-16. * A Washington dispatch of the 15th says there km in the Treasury «t th at time, arising from -seizures of cotton and qj. her captured and abandoned property, SH\II4,OOO. Claims of this class filed aggregated $13,500,000. and there were, besides, a large number of claims for captures alleged to have been illegally made, aggregating four times the amount remaining in .the Treasury. Recent information from lexas says thirty days of tine weather, last month, added 60,000 bales to the catton crop of the State, worth $3,000,000. ' ’

A few days ago the remains of a man named Schilling were discovered in the furnaoe of a Cincinnati tannery. A day or two subsequently the young aon of Andreas Egner eonfessed that his father, one Rufer and lumself first murdered the poor man by pound teg feim on the head with an oaken stick, and tiben finished the undertaking by punch, tag him with pitchforks. To hide the . evidence of w*Mt they had done they threw the body fa to the engine funoape. All were arrested, and the boy 334

Rufer confessed their share in the deed- On the 14th Mrs. Rufer became Insane and tried to murder her little child, Egner, the elder, etunlily denies, his complicity, and says both the others are crazy. A delegation mine-owners in Illinois called on Gov. Beveridge on the 14th and represented that a general strike was imminent among the miners all through *the southern part of the State. In some sections where strikes were already in ]>rogress attempts had .been made to fire the mines. PKKNONAL. Tuesday, Nov. §7 was eightieth birthday of William Cullen Bryant, the venerable and Illustrious American poet and journalist, and was duly commemorated in New York ! and Chicago by a large number of his friends ' and the friends cf literature. A memorial vase costing £5,000 was presented Mr. Bryant on this occasion. At a large meeting held in Florence. Mas?., ou the evening of the ICth, gold medals, appriately inscribed, were presented by the citia’nsof Milißiver Valley to George Cheney, Collins Graves, Jerome Hillman Mid Myron u)ay, the heroes of the Williamswirg 1 reservoir disaster six montirs ago. In the Brooklyn court on the 14th a stay of proceedings was granted in the TiltonBeecher suit until argument should be heard on thc irppcnt for grsrting a btJt oLpartiCTiTars to Mr. Beecher. A plea of_t‘ ned guilty" was entered in the liltel ..suitgof Miss Procter against Mr. Moulton.

A recent New Yorii dispatoh says the Jnternational Typographical Union, which has undertaken the work of providing a statue or other suitable memorial ever the grave of Iforaee-Greeley, makes an eppeal for further contributions. The committee have sufficient funds, probably, for a portrait-bust. In the meantime the committee have assumed the care of Greeley's grave, which has been reported recently as in a neglected condition. The'trial for bribery of ex-Senatbr Pomeroy, of Kansas, nas been continued and will go over to next April. The Hon. John W. Head, Member of Con-gress-elect from the fourth District of Tennessee, died at Gallatin on thetffh. A Washington 'dispatch of the 12th says Philip Wadsworth had been appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for the First District of Illinois, rtc. J. J. Hoyt, whose nomination had been withdrawn. 11 has lt<sen dertiied that the Tilton-Beecher suit will not be tried before Hie first Monday in Decemlwr. The Grand Jury of the Criminal Court <tf Cook County, lU. have found an indictmert against Wilbur F. Storey, editor of the Chicago Toweti, for ■‘ •ah unlawful, w-illful and malicious libel” against Mr. N. K. Fairbaifk, of whom it was recently asserted in the Times thatiie hud abstracted money from the relief fund. jy;

POLITICAL. The v<gte in. Massachusetts for Governor is as follows: Gaston, Dem., 95,901; Talbot, Rep., 89,243.; Andrews, Labor Reform, 131. Gaston's plurehty, (>,655. :...Th.esvate—the recent election for- Alon--gressman in the Second Vermont District was as follows: DtniSoti, Ind., 8,280* Poland, Rep., 4,111; Mel ane, Dem., 1,535. Gen. Hurlbuts majority for Congress in the Fourth Hlinois District over Farnsworth is 1,128. The official returns in the Second Illinois District give Harrison, Dem., seven maoritv. _ 2_-- —-- At the municipal election in Providence, R. 1., on the 11th Thomas A. Doyle, Republican, was re-elected Mayor. The City Council is largely Republican, The prohibition .question was brought into the election, but nine out .of the ten Aldermen are regarded es antiprohibition. The Arkansas -Legislature met at Little Rock on the 10th under the new Constitution. In his message on the 11th Gov. Baxter congratulated the people on regaining control of their own aXairs, and trusts that the'victory will be used wisely and well; that no proscription will be indulged in toward any elnss. He refers with pride to the new Constitution, and urges many reforms. He says the -State has noidejof repudiating any of her just debts, and recommends some provision looking to; ward a funding of the outstanding indebted ness. The New Hampshire Democratic State Convention for the nomination of a candidate for Governor is to be held at Concord on the sth of next January. The latest returns up to the 12th ifrom the Minnesota election leiive the political complexion of the State Senate doubtful and give the Republicans four majority in the House, and three or five, as the official canvass- should determine, on joint, ballot. A Des Moiftes dispatch of the 12th says the official canvass of the votes for lowa State oilieers had just baeai concluded. For Secretary of State. Josiah T. Young, Republican, received 107,255, and David Morgan, AntiMonopoly, 79,054. Republican majority. .28,202. Gov. A. 11. Garland and the other new State officers of Arkansas were inaugurated on the 12th. The Election Returning Board of Louisiana met iu New. Orleans the 12th. Gov. Kellogg addressed a communication to the Beard stating that he presumed it. was intended that all political parties should be represented on the Returning Board, mid that inasmuch its the Opposition party ehilmed that they were, not so represented he mauld suggest that such representation be allowed. The Democratic Conservative State, Committee had appointed sittings of the Board and witness the canvass and completion of the returns.

I It was thought at Madison on the 13th that MeDill, the Republican candidate for Congressman in the Eighth Wisconsin District, : would prove to be elected by e small majority. The Hon. C. B. Farwell has i>een awarded a certificate of eteStion as mt rnber of Congress from the Third Illinois Distant, objections j made by his opponent in tke late election John V. LeMoyne, to the returns from precincts in which he claims illegal votes were cast being pvermled. Mr. Farwell's official majority is placed at 186. At Little Rock, Ark., on the 13th, V. V. Smith, elected Lieutenant-Govwcrfor on the ticket with Baxter in 1872, issued a proclamation declaring himself Governor of the State, Baxter having abdicated in favor of Garland. He claims that the new Constttuiiou uixler which Garland was elected and installed into office was illegally and informally framed and adopted. He appealed to President Grant to aid him in securing control of the Executive office of the State. On the afternoon of the Itth a warrant waa issued, on the complain* of Gor. Garland, for the arrest of LieuL-Gov. Smith, his Secretary of State, Wheeler, and the editor of the Republican, on tire charge of treason. Tfe parties complained of had not been sou nd up to the 16th. The State coutitutioua] atnendmeuta sub.

initted to the people of New York at the recent election were adopted bv large majorities.