Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1874 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Foundering of a Steamer at Sea—Sixty Lives Lost. Prominent Persons Deserting the Carlist Cause. Public Debt Statement for the Month of November. New Hampshire Prohibition State Convention. Death of Mayor Hnvemoyer, of New York City. Meeting of the Ohio LegislatureState Debt Statistics. Later Prom the Black Htlla—No Gold in Paying Quantities. Other Interesting News Items. FOREIGN. "J The editor of the Yattrland , a Berlin newspaper, has been sentenced to ten months’ imprisonment for asserting that Kullmann’s attempt on the life of Bismarck was a sham plot, conceited hy the police. It was officially announced at Madrid on the 30th nit that Gen. Baballs, the Marquis de Yillad&reo and other prominent persons had abandoned the cause of Don Carlos. The French National Assembly reassembled on the 30th ult. M. Buffet was re-elected President, on the Ist, by a vote of 34S to three scattering. The Left did not vote. Grigua Land, according to a London dispatch of the Ist, had been absorbed by the British authorities, thus completing the territorial connection between Cape Colony and Natal. A Hendaye dispatch of the Ist says the Carlists had laid siege to Berga. The steamer La Plata, chartered to repair the telegraph cable, foundered off Ushant on the 29th nit Sixty persons were drowned. Fourteen persons were rescued by a Glasgow steamer after floating for about two hours. Among the lost were the Captain and all the officers, and Mr. Pickets, the chief electrician. Dr. Kenealy, the counsel of the Tieliborne claimant, has been dismissed from the British bar. A London dispatch of the 2d says advices had just been received from the Gold Coast that the British authorities there had ordered that slavery be abolished in Ashantee. The message of President MacMnhon was presented to toe French Assembly on the Sd. The President announced his intention to occupy the post which he had been called to fill, to the last day, with unshaken firmness and scrupulous respect for law. A Madrid dispatch announces the pardon of the American, Dockeray, who hud been sentenced to death as a spy by the Cuban au thorities. A telegram from Carlist' sources says the Government troops in Valencia had been totally defeated by toe Carlists with a loss-of GOO killed and wounded and 450 prisoners. In the German Reichstag on the 4th Prince Bismarck announced that the Vatican legation had been abolished, and the sum appropriated for its maintenance was stricken from the budget. ' v —r-* A deputation of Catholic ladies from England have reached Munster to congratulate the Westphalian Countess who was recently fined for signing an alleged seditious address to the Bishop of Padeborn, sympathizing with him in his resistance to ecclesiastic laws. Madrid of the_ 4th mention a mutiny in one of the regiments ordered north; Thirty arrests had been made. The Carlist leader Sohano was captured on the 3d while traveling on a railway train to Cordova. On the 4th he was shot, having been adjudged guilty of assassination and robbery. BOUKSTIC. The Board of Managers of the National Temperance Society have resolved to hold a National Temperance Convention at some point in the West the coming year. Later accounts from Tuscumbia, Ala., place the number of lives lost by the tornado in that place at sixty, and the value of property destrpyed at $500,000. About sixty persons were also wounded. Four hundred people are houseless, and great destitution prevails. Tuscumbia is a town of, about 1,500 inhabitants, situated on the Memphis & Charleston Railroad, seventy-five miles west of Huntsville, and two miles from the Tennessee river , Gov. Garland, of Arkansas, in a dispatch of ' the 30th ult., in reply to a telegram from his counsel in Washington, says: “I am not concentrating troops to defy the President or Congress, as has been charged; nor for any other purpose. I am not concentrating troops at all, there being peace and quiet th roughout the State.” Walter Btrain, of Buffalo, N. Y., arrived at Des Moines, lowa, on the 28th ult, from the Black Hills, where he had been prospecting since August He made a thorough prospect, and reports some “ pocket” gold found, but not enough to pay. He declares that there is not a shadow of truth in the statements made as to the discoveries of gold in that countoy. Two of his comrades were shot by the Indians, of whom the hills are fulL The report of the Commissioner to prepare instructions to Postmasters concerning the prepayment of newspapers and periodical postage after Jan. 1, 1875, sustains the recommendations of Third Assistant Post-master-Gen. Barber as to a plan for carrying out the law in the most convenient aud simple manner. Instead of placing stamps on separate periodicals or papers, or on the packages containing them, according to weight, toe forms already printed show a current account with publishers, and after the printed matter is weighed the requisite amount of stamps is posted in toe form of a receipt given to the publisher or his agent at

the time of mailing, the credit and tlfc receipt having a corresponding number. The statement of the condition of the public debt Dee. 1 is as follows; Six peFoMt. bond*7.7.T.'."T7. . . ..1 rf1.157.f74.T01 Five per cent, bauds.... Total coin bonds.., JI.TIS.TW.WO Lawful inanev debt t . 14.ttTN.iMi Matured debt IN.IHi.fcJO Local-tender notes 3W2.076.afi7 Certificates of deposit 47.1**4)00 Fractional currency 47.SKVJIB8 Coin certificates. 85.045.400 Interest 33.ar.L11l Total debt. Cash in TreasuryCorn i JH3.043.762 Currency ~ . I6.tiitit.3i 1 Special deposits held for the redemption of certificates of deposit. 47,120.000 Total in Treasury.... $J4«,H«:1.0T3 Debt less cash in Treasury. ; $2,135,93N.3i4 Decrease during November 123.427 Decrease sffec June SO, 1874. --t—4.112.1107 Honda issued to the Pacific Railway Companies, interest payable in lawful monev. principal outstanding $64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid... 1,615.587 Interest paid bv the United States.. 21.325.386 Interest repaid by the transporta- ■ tion of mails, etc : 5,510.044 Balance of interest paid by United States; 18.815.352 meeting in New York on the Ist adopted a resolution in favor of the resumption of insurance tmsrncgrrir Chicago. The newly-elected city officials of New Orleans were installed on the 30th ult. The American Cheap Transportation Convention met at Richmond, Va., on the Ist. About seventy-five delegates were present, the Hon. Josialt Quincy, of Massachusetts, presiding. A report on transportation was read by F. B. Thurber, of New York, in which lie argued in favor of trans-continental railroads in preference to canals. Committees were appointed. The aununl report of the Register of the Treasury says the total tounage of the c ountry exhibits an apparent increase of 104,820 tons, 5,635 tons in registered tonnage and 98,991 tons in the enrolled and licensed tonnage. The New England Nail Manufacturers’ Association have reduced the priee of ten-penny nails from $4.00 to $3.75 per keg, wfth fifteen cents discount to the trade. The entire business portion of the village of Wilton, N. H., was destroyed by fire on the 2d, tlicrlosg aggregatingirbput $100,1300; The> first annual session of the Alabama State Grange met at Montgomery on the 2d, W. H. Chambers, IV. M., presiding. One hundred delegates were present. The American Association of Short-Horn Breeders met in annual conventional Springfield, 111., on the 2d. The managers of most of the Western railroads held a meeting in Chicago on the 2d, and resolved to entirely abolish tile freepass system from and after Jan. 1, 1875. A recent Montgomery (Ala.) dispatch reports a meeting of colored men, representing twenty cotton counties of Alabama, to concoct measures for a wholesale emigration to States where the colored men are in the majority. The emigration feeling is represented as very strong. » A Washington telegram of the 3d says it was known in diplomatic circles that Spain had paid to Great Britain, only a part of her indemnity on account of the Virgiiiius affair, leaving the remainder aud other questions to be hereafter adjusted. The Supreme Court of the United States has recently decided that toe Confederate Government of the Southern States had no existence except as a conspiracy to overthrow' lawful authority, and tlTaTaircontracts-grow-ing out of purchases from it are void as "contrary to public policy. The Postmaster-General has issued an order forbidding letter-carriers circulating NewYear’s addresses calculated to induce the public to make them gifts. The last, official document issued by the late Mr. Havemeyer, Mayor of New York city, was a communication to the President of the Commissioners of Charities «nud Corrections, protesting against ' the alleged partiality shown toward Mr. Tweed in liis prison confinement, and asking an inquiry into the same; - 4/ : Hiram Smith was hanged at Watertown, N. Y., ou tlie 4tli, for complicity in the murder of Charles Wenham, Jau. 6, 1873: In the Cheap Transportation' Convention at Richmond. Va.. on the 41b. arrsnhmnn was unanimously adopted recognizing, in addition to the lines of transportation recommended by the United States Senate Committee on Transportation, the proposed Rock IslanA-ijg Hennepin Canal, in Illinois, —connecting the Mississippi with the Illinois River ' and Canal and the ekam of water-ways to the seaboard,as'a project of great merit, and urging upon Congress the necessity of speedy construction of the Work. The name of the association was changed to “ The American Board of Transportation and Commerce,” and Hon. Jositth Quincy, of Massachusetts, was elected President for the ensuing year; P. B. Thurber, of Now York, Treasurer, and R. H. Ferguson, of Troy, X. Y., Secretary. The next annual meeting is to be held in Chicago.

PERSONAL. Mayor [Havemeyer, of New York, died of apoplexy on the 80th ult Alderman Vance took the oath of office of Mayor on tne afternoon of the same day. „ NrThe boy in the family of F. IV. Barboursville, W. Va., who was supposed to have been the missing Charlie Ross, was t found, upon investigation, to have escaped ; from a neighboring poor-house, i William O. Key, cousin of Frank Key, : author of the “ Star Spangled Banner,” eom- : milted suicide at the Kennert House, Baltii more, a few nights ago. Deceased has been ! for some time past iu the hotel business. The case of toe Rev. John S. Glendenniug. before the Jersey City Presbytery, was eou- . eluded on~the 2d, resulting iu a verdict of acquittal ou all the counts. ' * The Tweed habeas corpus case came up before Judge Barrett, New York city, on the 2d, and. after argument, was dismissed aud the prisoner was remanded to prison. The banking firm of Henry Clews A Co. New York, has been adjudged bankrupt. WilbuY F. Storey, of the Chicago Times’ was married on the 2d to Mrs. Eureka C. Pearson. The Grand Encampment of Knights Templar, in session at New Orleans on the 3rd, elected Sir James H. Hopkins, of Pittsburgh. Grand Master; Sir Vincent L. Hurlbut, Chicago, Deputy Grand Master; Sir Walter L. j Bragg, Montgomery, Ala.. Grand Generalis- | simo; Sir Edward T. Schultz, Baltimore, ! Grand Captain-General; Sir Benton H. Lang- ! ley, Winona, Minn., Grand Senior Warden; Sir Charles R. Woodruff, Louisville, Grand Junior Warden. A New Orleans dispatch of the 3d says Judge Durell had forwarded his resignation to tbe President. , Rev. George D. Gillespie, of Ann Arbor, has

been chosen Bishop of the newly-created Western Dioccsgiif Michigan. J. H. Pickorclli of Illinois, has been elected President of the Short-Horn Association recently in session at Springfield, 111.; Secretary, 8. F. Lockridge. and Treasurer, Claude Matthews, both of Indiana. The next convention is to be held at Toronto, Canada, Dec. 3,1875. The trial of David A. Gage, ex-treasurer of tlie city of Chicago, for misuse of the city funds, terminated at Waukegan on the 4th in a verdict of " not guilty." POLITICAL. The New Hampshire Republican State Convention for the nomination of candidates for Governor and Railroad Commissioner is to tie held at Concord on the 12th of January. The Ohio Legislature met in adjourned sessiojqgUUoluminis on the Ist. The annual message of Gov. Allen was read in each house. The total local indebtedness of the’ State is $21,886,007.36; reimbursable debt, $7,988,205.80; total, $29,874,212.66. The irreducible debt is $4,132,191:86. The aggregate debts in Ohio, State, loeal and trust fund, $33,997,204.52. The taxes levied in 1873, • collectable in 1874, aggregate $26,474,459. The taxes levied in 1874, collectable in 1875, aggregate $27,614.729. The taxable valuation ID shown by the grand duplicate of 1874, is: Real estate in cities, towns and villages, $354.849,197: real estate notin cities towns and villages, $097.408,537; -personal property, $.528,121,588. Total, $1,580,879,324, which is an increase over the grand duplicate of 1873 of $13,104,865. The New Hampshire Prohibition State Convention met at Concord on the 2d and nominated Nathaniel White, of Concord, for Governor; David Heald, of Milford, for Railroad Commissioner, and the following for Congress: First District., the Rev, A. C. Hardy; Second District, J. M. Fletcher; Third District, Edward 11. Weston. The resolutions adopted affirm that the traffic in intoxicating drinks is a wrong of such magnitude that its suppression is imperatively demanded by both National and State legislation, enforced by vigilant Executives; favor a speedy return to specie payment; urge upon the friends of prohibition to avoid alliance or coalition with either of the old political parties, and heartily honor “ the noble Christian women who have made a crusade against the terrible trade whieli is carrying constant grief and eliuine to their households,” The returns from the Michigan Statfi election show the vote for State Treasurer to be as follows: William B. McCreery, Republican, 110,486; Sterling, Democrat, 98,049; Prohibition and Reform candidates, 4,119; making MeCreery’s majority over all 8,318. The remainder of the Republican State ticket w ill show about 7,000 majority. ' The Virginia Legislature met on the 2d. The Governor’s annual message was read. Several members of the Brooks party in the Arkansas controversy arrived in Washington on the night of the 3d for the purpose of presenting.their case to Congress and urging a decision as to the validity of the new Constitution; In the contested election case between Mr. MeDill and Judge Cate for the seat in Congress from the Eighth Wisconsin District, the State Board of Canvassers has decided in favor of Judge Cate, declaring him elected bytwo majority.