Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1875 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

1 German War Fleet on the Coast of Spain. Compntations Based on the Transit of Yens—Startling Hesults. 41 Special Memage to the Senate on Lonlafana Affbtn*. The LoMki&KA Troubles In and Out of Congress. The President Signs the New Finance Bill, and Bakes Suggestions. Commencement of the TiltonBeecher Trial. Secret Session of the Illinois State Orange. Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc. rearatN. In sa engagement with the Government ICrcee In Taleneia on tbe 18th the Carlists were defeated with considerable loss. It was reported that Don Carlos was determined ■on a vigorous prosecution of the war, notwithstanding the restoration of the Monarch}'. A London dispatch of the 13th reports the loss of the steamer Cortes in the Bay of Biscay. Twenty-six persons were drowned. The Spanish Government has informed Germany that complete satisfaction will be given for the outrage on the brig Gustav immediately upon the receipt of full dispatches, from its representative at Berlin. Dispatches have been received at Madrid announcing that .several bands of Carlists haTe been badly defeated by the National troops in the Departments of Barcelona and Navarre. - The British cutter Lapwing was recently attacked by natives of Santa Cruz Island, her crew overpowered and massacred, and the vessel burned. A London dispatch of the 15th reports the loss at sea of the steamship; Alice, from CardifTfor Constantinople. Twenty persous —were-drowned:— — ■■■ ——————— A Berlin dispatch of the 16th says Germany would soon have fifty guns on the northern coast of Spain to sustain. any demand she may make for indemnity for the past and security for the future. The first and second Kiugs of Siam, father and son, have quarreled, and the latter has disbanded his forces and taken refuge in the English consulate at Bangkok. DO-VIESTIC. The public schools in« New Orleans reopened on the 11th with a large attendance. There was no trouble. A Helena (Mont.) dispatch of the 14th says the weather there was so cold the night befor e that the mercury In the thermometers froze solid. Proof whisky left out of doors also froze solid in half an hour. Four Chiuameu who left Helena at four o’clock on the afternoon of the 13th were found the next morning about half a mile from town, frozen to death. The whisky they had with them, in small kegs, was frozen solid. Lewis Jarvis and Elbert Jackson were hanged in New York on the 15th for the murder, in June, IST3, of Samuel Jones. Jackson made a full confession. The hanging of Jarvis was a bungling and horrible affair, the rope breaking the first time, and the second time slipping out of the latchstring. The poor wretch then'exclaimed, “For God’s sake, make it sure this time,” and the Sheriff's assistants seized the rope and hauled him up by hand, when he was strangled to death. The representatives of the express companies having made strenuous objection to the transmission of merchandise in thejnails, the Superintendent of the United States Railway Postal Service has compiled statistics showing that the , burden of which the express companies complain forms less than 3 per cent, of the weight of the whole mail-matter, and but 45-100 of 1 per cant.-of the number of pieces. The investigation also shows the fact that newspapers constitute 79 per cent, of the mail-mat-ter originating in the postofikes of large cities. The English astronomers at Greenwich have given t© the public the results of their first tentative computations from the data obtained through observations of the recent transit of Venus. Remarking upon these results, an American astronomer states the sun’s distance from the earth to he 55,443,736 mi1e*—6,926,374 ifiiles less ,Jhan the distance aa computed by Encke by observations of the last transit He says thaTat this rate of progress the earth will fall into the sun in about 1,440 years. But as the earth’s motion will be greatly accelerated through the increased influence of the sun's attraction as the two bodies approach each other, the catastrophe may, and in fact must, inevitably occur much sooner, unless the sun’s force should be proportionately decreased or its volume reduced. Indignation meetings have been held in Boston, St. Louis, Cincinnati and other cities, East and West, to protest against the alleged - military interference in the organization of the Louisiana Legislature. Ob the 13th a little nine-year-old daughter of J. B. Morgan, of Urbana, Ohio, when returning home from school, was enticed into tiie woods by a man, who outraged her person in a most horrible manner, and it is thought made preparations to murder and burn his hapless victim, hut as he was seen by a hunter he abandoned this intention and sent the girl home. He was subsequently arrested at Marysville, was identified, gave his name as W. Alien, confessed to the horrible crime and was incarcerated in jaiL Early on the morning of the 17th a party of forty masked persons went to the jail, captured and bound him, gave him a few minutes to pray and hung him to a tree in front of the Court-House.

PERSONAL. The anti of Theodore Tilton against lienry JVsrd Beecher was fairly begun on tin- 11th, Mr. Morris, counsel for the prosecution, d<e Uverlng the opening speech. The National Council of Sovereigns of Industry opened its 'second annual session in Philadelphia on the 13th. Tne President’s report shows that the order is located in twenty States, with a membership of 100,000. King Kalakaua arrived in Chicago on the 13th, on his return from life East He met with a public reception. The Illinois State Grange met in secret session at Springfield on the 13th, According to the report of the Secretary there arc now I,s33Granges In the State, with an aggregate membership of a little over 115,000. Kx-Gov. Thomas E. Br&mlette, of Kentucky, died suddenly of heart disease, in Louisville, on the 13th. The cashier of the First National Bank of C&rbondale, Pa., was, at noon bn the 14th, bound and gagged by two men, who succeeded in making off with SIO,OOO in currency. POLITIC A L. The Republican members of. the Louisiana Legislrture have made a report concerning the proceedings in that body on the 4th, which in the main coincides with the official statement made by Gen. Sheridan. A Republican meeting’ was held in New Orleans on the evening of the 11th and was largely attended? Resolutions were adopted indorsing tbe telegrams of Gen. Sheridan, and stating that his representations were only defective in that they did not tell half the story of outrages to which Republicans in Louisiana had been subjected in years past The New Hampshire Republican. State Convention was held at Concord on the 13th, and nominated Person C. Cheney, of Manchester, for Governor and Charles F. Powers for Railroad Commissioner. The Legislature of Mississippi has adopted resolutions Indorsing the course of Gen. Sheridan In New Orleans.,, The Louisiana Legislature (Kellogg) on the Pith adopted a resolution to go immediately into the re-election of Lieut. Gov. Pinchback as United States Senator, in order to silence all doubt and questioning as to his title to a‘ seat in that body, and the vote stood: Senate, 18 to 5; House, 48 to 7. The Nevada Legislature has elected William Sharon (Republican) to the United Suites Senate. Charles H. Hardin, Governor-elect of Missouri, was inaugurated at Jefferson City on the 13th. The Louisiana Legislature, on the 13th, passed a resolution requesting Congress to immediately institute a thorough investigation into affalfs in Louisiana. Both houses of the Ohio Legislature have adopted resolutions condemning the interference of Federal troops in Louisiana affairs. At Norwich, Conn., on the 15th, by order of the Mayor, a national salute was tired in honor of the President because of his action on the Louisiana question. At the annual meeting of the Union League Club in New York on the evening of the 14th a short and spirited discussion of the. -Louisiana trouble followed, the tenor of which was an approval of the President’s course. A large meeting was held in Albany on the evening of the 14th to express indignation at the recent action of the soldiery in New Orleans. Charles A. Stevens has been elected to Congress from the Tenth Massachusetts District for the unexpired term of the late Alvah Crocker. A large meeting was held in Baltimore on the night of the 15th to protest against military interference in Louisiana. Reverdy Johnson was the eadingspeaker. The Virginia Legislature has adopted resolutions protesting against the recent conduct of Federal troops in Louisiana as a gross . and wanton usurpation of power. The Republican members of the Ohio House of Representatives have caused a protest to be entered on the journal of the House objecting to the subject matter of the lately-adopt-ed Louisiana resolutions, and protesting against the manuer of their adoption. The report of the sub-committee was received with satisfaction by the Democrats of New Orleans. The Republicans of that city, however, allege that misstatements predominate in the document. CONGRESSIONAL. In the Senate, on the 11th, after a spirited debate, a resolution was adopted requesting the Secretary of War, if not incompatible with the public interest, to transmit to the Senate the official report and’communications of Msj. Lewis Merrill, of jhe United States armyt relating to certain disorders in Louisiana, and the official report of Gen. Emory in regard to disorders in anv wav connected with the late election in that State ...A bill was introduced and referred to charter the Forty-first Parallel Railroad Company of the United States of - America, from Lake Erie to the Missouri River, aud to limit the rates of freight thereon.... Mr. Schurz called up the resolution introduced by him, instructing, the Judiciary Committee to inquire what legislation of Congress is necessary to secure to the people of Louisiana their rights of self-govern-ment under the Constitution, aud report with the least possible delay by bill or otherwise, and made a lengthy speech in which he argued that the recent action of the Federal soldiers in connection with the organization of the Louisiana Legislature was without warrant of Constitution or law and a dangerous precedent. He was brieflyanswered by Mr. Morton, who ‘took an opposite view of the case... Adjourned. In the House, on the 11th, Charles Albert was arraigned for contempt in refusing to answer certain questions before the Pacific Mail Investigating Committee, aud the witness said he would answer the questions on being ordered by the House so to d 0.... A resolution was offered aud referred, calling attention to and denouncing the interference of Federal soldiers with the Legislature of Louisiana at its recent organization, and demanding “ the immediate withdraw al of iho military force of the United States from the said State and the condign punishment of those guilty of this reckless usurpation"... .A bill supplementary to the bill to restore specie payments was introduced and referred.... The Consular aud Diplomatic Appropriation bill ($1,344,785) w as reported from th»-commit tee of the Whole and passed.... Adjourned. , In the Senate, on the 12th, the House bill declaratory of the nineteenth section of the act of 1874 to aweud the Customs Revenue laws and to repeal moieties was passed... Air. Howe, of Wisconsin, replied in a speech of considerable length to the remarks of Mr. Schurz relating" to affairs in Louisiana.. . Tbe report of the United States Attorney foj the Western District of Tennessee in regard to the troubles in that section last summer was received, ordered printed and laid on the table. In the House, on |he 12th, bills were passed—Senate-bill to reiove the limitation restricting the circulation of gold banks to SI,OOO. 000: granting to railroad companies the right of way through public lands, giving them 100 feet on each side of the central line of the road and the right to take from adjacent public lands the earth, stone, timber, etc., necessary for the construction of the road, and also-ground for stations, not to exceed twenty acres lor each station, to the extent of one station for every ten miles ot road, and providing that all such rights ol wav shall be subject to the* aathoritv of the States through which tbe roads may pass, and that the States'm which railroads may be built under the provision* of the bill shall nav£ authority at all time* to regulate and limit the charges of irons-* pertation. lit the Senate. on the 18th, the Presidynt’s meseage ob Louisiana affairs was received, read and ordered printed.... Mr. Schurz’ resolu-

tion in regard to Louisiana came up a* unfinished business, and Mr. Logan defended the course of the Administration and of Gen. Sheridan te JouWana m a lengthy speech.... A bill was introduced and referred for the relief of the Terre Haute A Indianapolis Railroad Company, successors of the Terre Haute <k Richmond Railroad C ompany, in the State of Indiana. In the nouse, on the 18th, a bill was introduced to promote commerce among the State* and to cheapen the transportation of perrons and property between the Atlantic seaboardand the Western abates... TheMdtan Appropria,* tton bill ($4,836,507) was debated fti Committee of 1 the Wh01e.... Adjourned. . lii the Senate, on the 14th, the bill to provide for a revision of the laws for the collection of customs duties was passed, with amendments reported from the Finance Committee.... Bill* were introduced—to. organize the Territory of Oklahama. andfor the better protection of the Indians therein; to empower the Southern Pacific Railway Company to change the line of tfieir road and to construct an additional branch railway ...Mr. Logau finished his speech on Mr. Schurz' Louisiana resolution, and Mr. Tfpton began a speech in reply ..A message was received from the President announcing his approval of the Finance bill, and suggesting, in order to carry out the provisions ol the bill, that the duty on tea and coffee be restored and that the 10 per cent, reduction ofTuriff on the articles specified in the law of June 6. 1872, be repealed. He- states that there is uo provision for preventing fluctuation in the value of paper currency with gold at a premium of over ltliper cent, above the currency in use, ana that it is almost certain that silver would be bought up for exportation a* last as it was put out, until change would become so scarce as to make the premium on it equal to the premium on gold, or sufficiently high to make it no longer profitable to buy for export, thereby causing a direct loss to the community at large and great embarrassment to trade, and suggests as a remedy for these difficulties that the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized to redeem legal-tender notes whenever presented in snms hot less than SIOO and multiples thereof at a premium lor gold of 10 per cent., loss interest at the rate of 2(4 per cent, per annum from the Ist of January. 1875. to date of putting this law into operation, and diminishing this premium at said rate until the final resumption, changing the rate of premium demanded from time to time as the interest amounts to one-quarter of one per cent. In the House, on the 14th, the Indian Appropriation bill j,\vas further debated in Committee of the Whole. ..A communication was received from the Sergcant-at-Armg stating that Judge McArthur, of the District Supreme Court, had issued a writ of habeas corpus in behalfol'lrwin, the recusant witness, and asking for instructions. A resolution was then adopted “that the Sergeam-at-Arins be directed to make careful return to the writ of habeas corpus that the prisoner is duly held by authority ot the House of Representatives to answer in proceedings against him for contempt”... .Adjourned. In the Senate, on the 15th, several bills for the relief of persons were passed.... Mr. Tipton concluded his remarks on Mr. Schurz' Louisiana resolution, and Messrs. Logan, Frelinghuysenand Saulsbury joined in the discussion. In the House, on the loth, G. F. Hoar, from the Select Committee on Outrages in the Southern States, presented the report of the subcommittee which had been to New Orleans, and stated at the same time that the committee had voted to proceed forthwith to the State of Louisiana •to continue the investigation. The report was ordered printed,' but was not read. It is to the effect that the election of 1872 was a fraudulent one, and that of 1874 was determined by the Returning Board, whose “arbitrary, unjust and illegal action alone prevented the return by the Board of a majority of Conservative members to the lower house. ’ The cOmntittee recite at length the facts relative to the attempted organization of the Legislature Jan. 4, and conclude as follows: “Your committee have not been able to agree upon any recommendation, but upon the situation in Louisiana as it appeared before us we are all agreed.” The report is signed by Charles Foster, William Walter Phelps and Clarkson N. Potter....ln the case of Irwin, the, ‘recusant resolution was adopted directing the Sergeant at-Arms to make careful return to the w rit of habeas corpus that the prisoner is duly held by authority of the House ol Represeutatlves to answer proceedings against him for contempt, and to take with him the body of Irwin before the court w hen making such return as required by law... .Adjourned to the 18th. In the Senate, on the 16th, a memorial •igued by over 200 citizens of Arkansas, formerly Union soldiers, indorsing Gen. Sheridan’s course iu New Orleans, and declaring the statements made by hint to be trite, was presented... .Mr. Schurz* Louisiana resolution was further debated by Messrs. Saulsbury, Coukling. Clayton, Norwood, Stevenson, Cooper and Sherman... .Adjourned. The House was not in session.