Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1874 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Proclamation Summoning the Carliste to Surrender. Observations of the Transit of Venus Generally Successful. The Proetor-Moullon Libel Suit Compromfued. The Boy Pomeroy Found Guilty of Murder in the First Degree. Meeting of the lowa State Grange -Growth of the Order. Cool and Daring Express Robbery ',n Missouri. —~r= The Fighting at VlclUtburg, Itllsa.— Number or Killed. Etc.., Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc. FOKBICN. Paris dispatches of the Sth say the Roth's- ~ -cbilds had advanced 88,000,000 reals to the Bpanish Government, and the bankers ofMadrid 150,000,000 reals more. Rumors prevailed that Don Carlos was negotiating with ex-Queen Isabella. ■— At St. Petersburg, Russia, on the night of the 7th, the tide raised nine feet above the high-water mark, partially inundating the lower portion of the city. Over 1,000 persons of the poorer classes were driven from their houses. Dispatches from India received at Greenwich Observatory on the oth announce that the observation of the transit of Venus in that country had been entirely successful. Over 100 photographs had been taken. Successful observations at Cairo, Suez and Thebes had also been made. At Shanghai the weather was overcast and the sun obscured. A llendaye dispatch of the oth says Gen, Loma had issued a proclamation summoning the Carlists to surrender within eight days, and threatening to devastate the country occupied by them in case of further resistance. Telegrams received in London on the 10th say that observations in regard to the o f Venus failed in Ormsk, Oreusburg, Kasai, I'ralsk, Astraclian, Kertch and Tiflis, but were entirely successful at Yokonama. In the trial of Count von Arnim at Berlin the fact was developed on the 11th that his secretary had been instructed bv Bismarck to act as 4 spy open Ins conduct. The steamship Pelican, from Cardiff for Cork, was recently lost with all ou board. The passengers and crew numbered forty-six. Another cremation ceremony has been successfully performed in Dresden in the same oven in which the body of the wife of Sir Charles Dilke was lately consumed. No clergyman could be found to perform the burial ccremonj and a brief and impressive speech was delivered by a layman. The eremation is said to have been perfectly successful, with nothing to offend the senses. The insurrection in the Argentine Republic is over, and the Government has issued a proclamation granting amnesty to all political offenders.

. _■: - , 1>0:»IBNT1C. : The ’longshoremenV strike in New York is ended, the stevedores having come to an amicable understanding with’both men and shipowners. Further troubles are reported in the mining.regions of Pennsylvania, growing out of the needy condition of large numbers of unemployed miners. Lawlessness and crime are the order of the day in many localities. After weeks of consultations and conferences between the iron manufacturers and puddlers of Pittsburgh the latter inaugurated a strike on the sth, and over 100,000 workmen are thrown out of employment. A train on the Kansas Pacific Railway was stopped by obstructions on the track at Mancie, Mo., on the Sth, and five armed men entered, the express car, uncoupled it from the train and compelled the engineer to haul it away from the other cars, when they robbed ihe safe of Wells, Fargo A Co. of about $30,000. The passenger car was not entered nor were the passengers disturbed. Some" firing was indulged in, but no one was hurt. Reports reached New Orleans on the night of the 6th that large bodies of armed fieg'roes were on their way to Vicksburg to take possissiomof the Court Rouse. On the 7th Gen. Emory received a dispatch that a riot and fighting began on that day. An Associated Press dispatch of the same date says an alarm was sounded at nine o'clock in .the morning thatthe negroes were marching on the town. The citizens gathered en masse, armed immediately, and advanced to "meet the negroes on the Baldwin Ferry road. They were encountered on Grove street, just outside of the city, about 1300 strong. The commander of the citizens warned the negroes to disperse, but they refused, and immediately firing commenced on both sides. The negroes retreated about a mile, and again made a stand in an old breastwork and house, but were soon routed. The loss in this engagement was one citizen, Oliver Brown, killed, and about twelve or fifteen negroes killed, several wounded, and about twenty prisoners. On the Hall's Ferry road about 250 negroes were found and rooted after a short engagement, with several killed and wounded. The attack was made for the purpose of reinstating the negro Sheriff CroSby. It was reported that the negroes Were burning cotton-gins and dwellings in the neighborhood. In the Criminal Court of the District" of'Co*, lumbia on the 9th a letter was presented from the Attorney-General, saying, in substance, that the Government did not consider it advisable, in view of the fact that the Grand Jury which had indicted Harrington and others (defendants in the safe-conspiracy trial) had been declared illegal, to proceed with thp new trial at present. The Court directed a nolle prooequi to be entired, and ail the de* fendants were discharged. The news relating to the Vicksburg troubles received on the 10th was to the effect that the

excitement was subsiding and business generally had been resumed The Governor’s proclamation denouncing the alleged riotous pro ceedilj£ IM calling on all good citizens to aid in UphqWlng the laws of the State,limned on thq Tth.yas responded to by a proclamation by the Mayor of Vicksburg, who claimed that there had up to that timebeen no riotous assemblage in that city; that the meeting of the unarmed taxpayers who requested the resignation of irresponsible officials who had Jailed to execute bonds was quiet and orderly, etc. ’ The lowa State Grange met at Dcs Moines on the Sth. About 200 delegates were present. The annual address puts the number of subordinate Granges iu the State at 2.ooo—an increase over last year of One hundred and nine smallerhave been consolidated. On the the Treasurer reported the receipts vear at $33,393.82; expenditures for y W $31,507.71; balance on hand, The State Agent reported tht b ~f lljH office for the vear it 'pj lc saving to the Grange by tlie 8t 4 t<j Agency is over $27,000. The Comr 4 ity ee ou j) le p.ailroad Tariff Law reported, that it was not the law they wanted and pad proved impracticable. rJThe actual i’.aint*cr of negroes killed in the fight at on the 7th is reported at I.V), fort_v .f jgbt 0 f whom were buried iu 1 oue iield 04, the 9th. \ Washington dispatch of the 11th says the lidministration r approves of the course of Gov. Ames, of Mississippi, ill'endeavoring tt> suppress the disorders existing iir that without.calling-for the assistance of the Federal Government, although the opinion ts expressed that, had lie acted fnorc promptly and gone in person to the scene of action, much bloodshed would have been averted. An earthquake shock was distinctly felt in the upper part of New York city, along the Hudson River, and in Connecticut on the night of the 10th. / Charlestown, W. Va., was the scene of a destructive conflagration on the night of the 10th, by which $200,000 worth of property was consumed. ... • jL The Southern Claims Commission has favorably passed upon about 1,000 claims, and a total amount awarded of about $750,000. John Neville, aged eight years, residing with his parents in West Hoboken, N. J., was kidnaped on the evening of the 10th while playing with a companion. They were met by a man driving a buggy who asked them to take a ride. Neville consented. A large number of citizens of Vicksburg have issued an address, giving a statement of tlic troubles there, ill which they charge a vast amount of official corruption, and defend the action of the citizens in the recent warfare, Claiming that they were obliged to take up arms iu self-defense. They say that “ Our people iu the tryiug circumstances in which they have been placed might well have doue more, and could not have done less, for the protection of themselves, their families, and their property.” QThe constitution of the lowa State Grange has been so amended as to reduce future membership to 100 delegates, and to provide for districting the State in proportion to the number of subordinate Granges. - , PERsON.It. The funeral of the late Mayor Ilavemeyer of New Y’ork city took place ou the sth. King Kalakaua and his suite left San Francisco for Washington ou'the morning of the sth in special palace cars. The New Yolk Court of Appeals lias decided in the case of Mr. Tilton against Mr. Beecher that the defendant has a right to have the bill of particulars asked for iu tlie court below. The Proctor-Moulton libel suit has been compromised, Moulton paying the costs amounting to about $5,000. Miss Proctor solemnly avers that there was no truth in the charges’ made against her as to her relations with Mr. Beecher, and Mr. Moulton admits that he spoke merely from hearsay. • Ezra Cornell, the founder of Cornell College, died on tlie oth at Ithaca, N. Y. In the lowa Episcopal Convention at Davenport, on the Dili, Rev. H. C. Potter, of Grace Church, New York, was elected Bishop on. the fourth ballot. He declined the appointment, and on the - 10th the Rev. W. It Huntington, of Worcester, Mass., was chosen on the third ballot by a small majority. His election was subsequently made unanimous. Gov. Ames,' of Mississippi, lias issued his proclamation convening the Legislature in extra session on the 17th to consider the Vi*ksbi k troubles. The trial of Jesse Pomeroy, the boy-mur-derer, was concluded in Boston on the 10th. The jury brought in a, verdict of murder in the first degree, with a recommendation that he be imprisoned for life. 1 Miss Julia A. Garretson lias been elected State Lecturer of the Grange in lowa, in place of Mr. Wilkinson, resigned. The trial of the suit of Tilton against Beecher has been postponed until tlie first Monday iu January. The attorneys for Tilton have, appealed from an order of Judge MeCue granting a bill of particulars in the Tilton-Beecher ease. The appeal is to the General Term, and is on the ground that the Brooklyn City Court shall not limit the prosecution ou the trial to proof of any particular day. King Kalakaua reached Washington on tlie 12th. aud his arrival was the occasion of considerable informal display. He was suffering much from a severe cold ou the loth, and i| was thought his formal reception, intended to come oft' on the 14th, would have to be deferred. • 1 POLITICAL. A Madison (Wis.) dispatch of the 7th says the Supreme Court had denied the writ of mandamus sought by MeDiil's counsel to compel the State Board of Canvassers to award McDill the Congressional certificate from the Eighth District. Gov. Woodson, of Missouri, has ordered an election 6n Jan. 20 for delegates to the Constitutional Convention. The Grand Jury at Frankfort,, Ky., on the 10th found an indictment against Thomas C. Jones, Clerk of the Court of Appeals, charging him with usurping an office established by the Constitution, ly being ineligible from the fact that he accepted a challenge to tight a duel. Jones gave bond in the sum of $29,000.

CONGRESSIONAL. The second session of the Forty-third Congress opened at noon on the *'li Y-ice-President Wilson presided in the Senate and Speaker Biaice/iu the H >use An order was Mgftcff Join the Senate fixing the hour of meeting at twelve o'clock daiiy until otherwise pro' vided... .Certificates' were presented of the election of George F. Edmunds, of Vermont, ■and William W. Eaton, ol Connecticut, as Senators for the term beginning March 4. 1815 \ j * committee was appointed to notify the Prv-i- j dent of the assembling of Congress.'. ..The’Pre-s- i ident’g Message was read in .both houses,. ..The joint Select Committee on the District of Colnmbia presented a bill placing the District under control of three Regents, appointed bv the President.... Bills were introduced-to revise

the law for the collection of cr.> tomf duties; for he relief of pre-qmpfon. iu it * die..trtci.i* of Kansas and Nebtrj,ki- anurouriatim'"Ur,,,od Mai vil/,settlers an ; lie V; eaaurv. In mtrtmuut _ CoinpIn the House four new members— Messrs. Schell and Chittenden (1 f New York. Carpenter of South Carolina, and Ftnrk of Ohio—were sworn i» 4. ..-.A hill was read to repeal | nc - mown as thu “Press-gag law ... ine President’s Message was react., ana or “® ri ’'j primed ...The Legislative, Kxecu* • Judicial Appropriation bill calling for f a!. dt; the Navy Appropriation bill calling , ft* VvOtk.: the Army Appropriation bill call•nS '-ft $*7,701,500; the Indian Appropriation “ . calling for $4,881,507, and the Fbrtifl'Tation Appropriation bill calling for SBSO,"<JO were reported from the ‘Committee on Appropriations aud mane the special order for Dec. 15. Dec. 16. Dec. 17, llec. Is and Dec. 22 1 iwpoctivctv... A bill was passed appropriating SSO 000 to purchase scales for tlAnse of the Postoffice Department.... A bill was Introduced exempting from the operation of the law requiring prepayment of postagmaases where the subscriplions were taken pnur to January. 1875.... Adjourned. In the Senate, on the Bth, hills were introduced—to reduce the salary rtf the President of the United States after this term to $35,000 per annum; for the constructionof United States Governnient telegraph lines between Washington, D. ( ..ami Boston; amendatory of Sec. tool the National C’.iirencv- act nf —Infrf—and—Seer —9 of the act olJulpiS, 1866.. A memorial was received from various publishers asking for u change of the Postal laws,.. .Adjourned In the House, on the Bth,n report from the Special Committee on the Arkansas troubles of the testimony taken during the vacation was presented and ordered printed.... Bills were iners aud fixing ike,jai.es;, to .prohibit Senators, Representatives and Delegates in Congress from acting as counsel or otherwise in suits or proceedings against the United States. ..Among the bids introduced were the following: For the extinguishment «f the Indian title to the Black Hills Reservation. Dakota: to substitute United States notes for issues of National Banks; lor an additional Representative from Nebraska: for free backing; to regulate elections iu certain Southern States; to amend the act to enforce the right of citizens to vote; repealing the increase of the President’s salary. _ In the Senate, on the Oth, several memorials were presented, among them one from the citizens of Kansas for an extension of time to homestead and pre-emption settlers ou public lands who have been afflicted by" the" locust plague... A list of standing committees was submitted and agreed to. Messrs. Davis, of the Committee on Claims, and Dennis, of the Committee on Agriculture, exchanging places ...Among the bills introduced were: Authorizing the Secretary- of War to ascertain the expenses incurred by Kansas in resisting the Indian invasion of 1874 ; relating to pensions, and providing for the payment of arrears of pen#ions .... Adjourned. In the House, on the 9th, the bill in reference to the railroad bridge at Omaha was postponed until the second Tuesday in February .... Various parts of the President’s -Message were relented.to appropriate committees... The bill to continue the Board of Audit, to examine and audit the unfunded or floatings debt of the District of Columbia, was amended and passed ... Adjourned. In the Senate, on tlie 10th, a joint resolution was agreed to, appointing the Hon. George Bancroft a memberof the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institute, iu place of Gen. W. T. Sherman, resigned. The House bill appropriating $30,000 for the purchase of scales for Postofflces was amended and passed.. .The House resolution to bind 100 copies of the Revised Statutes, without index, was passed... Executive session, and adjournment.till the 14th. In tlie House, on the 10th, a bill was Introduced and referred directing the Freedmen'e Bank Commissioners to declare an immediate dividend and to 1 institute suit against the Trustees, officers and agents of the company. with a view of holding them persottafly liable. ..The Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill ($1,344,785) was made the special order for the 33d....The Senate amendment, to the bill appropriating $30,000 for scales required in carrying out the lSw for the prepayment of newspapers was concurred iu, and the bid passed... .The Speaker announced the following appointments to fill vacancies on committees: On Arkansas Affairs, Scudder, ofNew Y'ork; Judiciary, Finck. of Ohio; Civil-Service Reform. Chittenden,-.of New York; Centennial, Schell, of New York; Invalid Peuaud Labor, also on Expenditures in the Naval diaanruncnt, Carpenter, of South Carolina.,.. Ad journed. Senate not in session on the llt'n. In the House, bills were passed—allowing the homestead and pre-emption settlers in lowa. Minne-’ sota. Nebraska and Kansas, whose crops were destroyed by grasshoppers iu 1874. to leave and be absent from their lands till May. 1876, without prejudice to their rights; Senate bill for the appointment of George Bancroft to fill the vacancy 111 the Board of Regents of the Sinilhgoniun Institute A resolution was adopted directing the arrest of Richard B. Irwin, now in New York city, agent of the Pacific Mail Company, for contempt in having failed to obey the summons of the Committee of Ways and MeantL who sough 1 his testimony in the ilithe close of the last session of Congress. Air. Irwin had promised to be on hand by the 15th Adjourned.