Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1875 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Another Resolution in SpainEnd of the Republic. Dot Alphonso, Son of Ex-Queen Isabella, Proclaimed King. Onditiom of the Public Debt January 1. Atty.*Gen. Williams Sustains the. Louisiana Returning Board. Sudden Death of Gerrit Smith in New York City. .A«oibf.r Ucdsioß ii He Tiltoißeeclier Siit-The Bill of Pwtiwlin Re fused. <&m. Sheridan Goes to New Orleans Under Confidential Instructions. Other Interesting News Items. FOKEIGN. Madrid dispatches of the 31st ult. announce the collapse of the Spanish Republic and • that Alphonso had been proclaimed King of Spain by the army and navy, and that the people had gladly acquiesced in the movement The King had announced his Cabinet, and had telegraphed to the Pope asking his blessing and promising like his ancestors to defend the of the Holy See. Gen. Campos had entered Valencia at the head of the troopa that were sent to oppose him when he pronounced for Alphonso. The new Ministry had telegraphed to Cuba directing the Cap-tain-General to proclaim to the army there the accession of King Alphonso. Dispatches of the Ist say that Gen. Dorregaray had laid down his arms and that other prominent Carlist leaders were about to give in their adhesion to King Alphonso, and the Spanish Ambassador at Paris had resigned and the Duke de Montpehsier and the Orleans Princes had congratulated Don Alphonso upon his accession to the Spanish throne. Mrs. J. Lothrop Motley, the wife of the American historian, died in London on the Ist. A London dispatch of the morning of the Ist says that 60,000 colliers in South Wales . had struck work in consequence of a reduction in wages. *' The death of the English Duke of Montrose is announced, and also the decease of the eminent Communist M. Ledru Rollin. In consequence of a very heavy fall of snow ■ on the SUlh and 31et ult. all the railroads iu Austria were blockaded and travel was sus--pended. ----- A Constantinople dispatch of the 31st ult. says 25,000 persons have perished from starvation in the city of Adana alone. A London dispat ch of the 2d says that King Alphonso would speedily be recognized by European powers. He had granted amnesty to all Carlists, and had been tendered the support oLCastelar, Martos, Admiral Topete and other well-known Republicans. The blessing —of the Poj>e asked for by the King had been sent through the Papal Nuncio in Madrid. The Swiss, Austrian and Belgian Governments, according to the London Tinies of the 2d, had adopted stringent measures against the importation of American potatoes “infected with Colorado beetle.” Garibaldi has declined the national grant for his relief, because of the conditibiUljU Italian finances. ’.DOMESTIC. In the investigation in New York on the 28th before the sub-committee of the House Ways and Means Committee, concerning the subsidy business of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, evidence was produced showing that Wk. 8. King, Postmaster of the .House of Representatives, had, in May last, drawn from a New York bank $115,000 of the funds deposited, by Irwin, on a cheek signed by the latter. According to the report of the State Treas urer and State Anditor of Minnesota the receipts of the year have been $1.112.512.52, and the expenditures $1,148,059.90. Balance in the Treasury $183,151.04, against $215,398.35 at the end of the year 1873. A report on the 28th that Gen. Emory had been superseded by Gen. Terry wds not confirmed on the 29th and is probably incorrect. Gen. Sheridan left Chicago on the evening of the 27th for New; Orleans, under instructions to hold kimself in readiness, in the event of an uprising against the Kellogg Government, to assume immediate commend of the Government foraes and carry ouf. instructions .con-fidentially-ent him. 4. The opera-house and other buildings in Ottawa, DI., were destroyed by fire on the morning of ibe 29th. Loss nearly SIOO,OOO. In the Pacific Mail investigation in New York on the 30th ult. the Secretary of the Brooklyn Trust Company testified that John G. Schumaker, Congressman for the Second Near York District, had received in payments and credit the sum of $275,000 of the amount disbursed by the agents of the Pacific Mail ■ Company. Rufus Hatch stated before the eommittee that he wished to introduce cer- ; tain witnesses to show that Irwin’s intention i in coming back from Europe was to break up : the Pacific Mail Company. John Goodman was hanged at Ottawa. Ohio, on the 30th ult,, for the murder in April last of Mr. and Mrs. Joha Haywood, an aged couple living on a farm Wear Columbus Grove. A party of Indians, belonging to Spotted Tail’s band, have reported a gang of twenty- • one miners encamped in the Black Hills. They weft not molested, but the fact of their intrusion reported to Indian Agent Howard. The internal revenue receipts fpr the month of December were $8,984,630. For the fiscal year to Dec. 31, $52,273,430. Great excitement was caused at Vinita, I. T., on the Ist by a report that 200 well-armed Hoss, or Piu, Indians were Starching on that

place with a viqw of attacking the town. The cause of the disturbance is said to have grown out of party feeling, the Ross party not favoring a Territorial government, while the Downing, or opposition, party were in favor of the Territorial organisation. Nearly all the white people had left Vinita on tire Ist 'While walking on the streets in New Ori leans on the night of the 31st ult. in company w ith a friend, Fabius McKay Jhinn (colored), Assistant United States Appraiser, was shot in the side and almost instantly killed. Conservatives say the sboobng was accidental. Tub public debt statement Jan. 1 is as folIowa; —•"?'" . Slf per cent, bonds... .. $1,1 57,085.100 Five per cent, bonds 5>56.525.20* Total coin bonds . $1,713.616.300 T»wnirnT»ficyTebf“ 77^777... 14,678.000 Matured debt ... 19.122,390 Legal-tender notes 882.072.317 Certificates of deposit 41,280.000 Fractional currency.... 7 46.390.598 Coin cvrttfiOTes?. 7.7 23.540.600 Interest 39.724.477 Total debt. $2,280,348,682 Cash in Treasure— Coin $82,587,449 Currency::.... 18.952,982 Special deposits held for “the redemption of certificates es •deposit, as provided by law ...: 41,200,000 Total in Treasury $137,740,381 Debt less cash in Trea5ury52,142,598,302 Increase during December 3,659,967 Decrease since June 30, 1874 489.939 Bonds issued to the Pacific Railway Companies, interest"*payable in lawful money, principal outstanding . rr77T.~... — 164,623,512 Interest accrued and not yer pa id. 1.939.705 Interest paid by the United States. 34.325,396 Ifltcrert repaid by the transportation of mails, etc 5,601,888 Balance of interest paid'by United States 18,723,558 Bubpouias were served on the 2d on witnesses in the Til ton-Beecher suit, and a panel ofsoo jurors drawn. In the Pacific Mail iavestigatlon, on the..3d, Henry Clews, a Director, testified that no knowledge came to the Board of Directors, as a Board, of the mouey spent to procure the subsidy until after it became a law, and when they did learn the fact It was a matter of surprise to them. A. L. Phelps testified that Stockwell told him that money was being spent in Washington. Stockwell also said he supposed Irwin would have to be sent out of the country if an investigation, into the matter should be instituted. Phelps thought this was in September, 1872. PERSONAL. Gerrit Smith, the philanthropist, died in New York' on the 28th, from a combinedattack of apoplexy arid paralysis. Mr. Smith was seventy-seven-years-old. Gov. Beveridge, of Illinois, received information on the 28tb that G. W. L. Smith, who was kidnaped in Massac County, 111., some months ago, and taken to Tennessee, where, it was alleged, he had committed a murder, had been released. The general term of the City Court of Brooklyn, Judges Neilson and Reynolds on the bench, have given a decision reversing the order of Judge McCue which required Mr. Tilton to furnish Mr. Beecher a bill of particulars 1’ 1 fit .the. former.. agaiuaLthe lattey. The Freemasons Bi New York gave King Kalakaua a reception on the night of the 30th ult. A large number wer<*present. Ex-Gov. Warmoth had a preliminary examination. 011 th e 30th on'the charge of murder • for killing D. C. Byerly, in New Orleans, and was discharged from custody. A Wash ingtou , telegram of the Ist says Vice-President Wilson had arrived in that city and intended to preside over the Senate during the, remainder of-.the session. The funeral of the late Gerrit Smith occurred at his home in Teterboro, N. Y., on the 31st. Gen. Morgan L. Smith, of Bloomington, 111., died recently at a hotel in Brooklyn, N. Y. His remains were taken to Washington, D. C. After settling up the affairs of the late James Fisk his estate is left in debt to the amount of $178,7xX). Rumors of the resignation of Gen. Spinner and other officers of the Treasury Department are denied by Washington dispatches of the 3d. At the time of his death Gerrit Smith was worth $1,250,000. His charities during his life were of an equal amount. —— Capt. E. B. Ward, a prominent and wealthy citi zen of Detroit, died of. apoplexy in that city on the 2d, aged sixty-four. His estate is estimated al $10,000,000. POLITICAL.

In a dispatch dated New Orleans, Dec. 25, I ‘‘The wrong just perpetrated by . the Returning Board against the people of ! Louisiana is a more crowning infamy than ; the action of the Lynch Returning Board." ! He adds that “ resistance to the national authority, represented by a large portion of the j army and naval fleet sustaining the usurpaI tion and stifling the voice of the people,»has , never been meditated.” In the C abiuet meeting in IV ashihgton on the 29th Atty.-Gen. IVilliams emphatically reiterated his opinion that there was a necessity for the Government to sustain the re- : port 'of the Louisiana Election Returning | Board at all hazards, and that its decision is right in law and in fact. “ The Mississippi Democratic State Contention has been postponed from Jan. S xo April 7. The Congressional subcommittee to inves,tigate Louisiana affairs held its first sessdou in New Orleans on the 30th. The Vicksburg committee reached that place of the 30th. Samuel J. Tilden was inaugurated as Governor of New York on the Ist, in the presence of a large concourse of citizens. The Connecticut Republican State Convention is to be held on the 20th inst. New Orleans dispatches of the 3d say two I Republican members of the Louisiana Legis- ; lature had been kidnaped by the Conservatives to prevent their being present at the i organisation of that body on the 4th7 Gov. Kellogg had submitted a letter to the Congressional Investigating Committee proposing that they decide the question of the dis- i puted election of 1872. and offering to submit ! to whatever verdict they might render. * I