Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1875 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Son Carlos Answers the Kings Proclamation, And Announces that He Will Continue the War. Public Debt Stotenieut, Feb. 1, Congress—The House Passes a Hew Civil-Rights Bill «- . The Canadian Reciprocity Treaty Rejected by the Senate, Meeting of the National Grange at Charleston, S. C. Hen. Align* Cameron Elected United State* Senator from Wisconsin. Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc. FOREIGN. A Berlin dispatch of the Ist Bays the Federal Council had empowered Prince Bismarck to conclude an extradition treaty with the United States. A London dispatch of the 3d says private dispatches from China state thatthe Empress, overcome with grief at the death of her husband, had committed suicide. A child three years old had been proclaimed Emperor, with the Empress Mother as Regent. A Madrid dispatch of the 3d announces that Gen. Morioncs had succeeded in relieving Panapeluna. It was reported that the Pope had written to Don Carlos advising him to reconsider his determination to continue the wtr, as the dignity of the church had been vindicated and the right of the clergy recognized by King Alplionso. The Carlisle had been defeated in an engagement at Oteiea, and Gen. Agana, the Carlist leader, made prisoner. - The Marquis of Hartington was elected leader of the Liberal party in the British Parliament on the 3d. TheJvhedive has lately annexed the country of .Darfour to Egypt. "v “Madrid telegrams of the 6th say that Don Curios had issued a counter proclamation to thatos6uld by King Alphohso. He does not pro tea. against the assumption of the monarchy by his cousin, but says his protests shall be uttered in irresistibly eloquent toues from the mouths of his cannon. On the 7th there was fighting between the two armies in the vicinity of Estalla, which resulted in the repulse of eight of the Carlist battalions. On the evening of the 36th ult. a Mexican mob attacked a Protestant church in Acapulco. During the melee one American and- four Mexicans were killed. Tsae Tien, son of Prince Chien, has been proclaimed Emperor of China. The English Parliament reassembled on the sth. The session was opened by a speech from the throne. . DOMESTIC. The following is a statement of the condition of the public debt Feb. 1: Six per can!, bonds $1,157,065,100 Five per cent, bonds 562,025,300 Total ecm bonds $1,719,110,800 Lawful money debt .- 14,678.000 Matured debt' - 11,848,260 Legal-tender noses 382,072,147 Certificates«f deposit 45,405,000 Fractional .currency 45,037,075 Coin oertifioaU's?: 34,1*55.300 Interest 28,906,235 Total debt............ $2,969.209.306 Cast, in Tressarv — Coin $69,465,084 Carressy .. 10,843,050 Special deposits held for the redemption ofctrtificates of deposit, as provided fey law 45,405,000 Total in Treasury $125,218,185 Debt lees cash in Treasury $2,143,996,172 Increase daring January, 1.397.870 Bonds issued to the Pacific Railway Computes, interest payable in lawful saoneY.-,principal outaundIng. , $64,623,512 Interest uterned and. not yet^aid... 323.117 Interest pood by the United States.. 26.264.102 Interest repaid hv the transportation of mails, etc 5,602.165 Balance of interest paid by United States..,.— 30,661,936 At Mentp&te, on,the Ist, while a messenger of the Southern Express Company was engaged in Aalnoriqig a package of money marked W. EL Parker Co. at the reputed office of thui- firm, in the presence of two white men aafi th*»r negroes, a rope wins thrown around jus neek and a bug over his heed, and he ims quite severely beaten, after wk-ch the gang succeeded in carrying off the messenger’s saekel, containing a latge numbered money packag6e. Tfcs Senate, la executhre session on the 34, rejected the Canadian reciprocity .treaty, without division,The Granite aihf Creaeant mills at Fall River, Mass., closed op the Ist, and the Merchants* on the 3d, owing to dissatisfaction about hrages. The we avers resolved that „ 1,000 of tSheir number should go back to England at half-fare, to be advanced to each. Hie workmec expressed a willingness to subni t their diSesenees to arbitrate an. The Nafconal Grange of Lbe Patrons of Husbandry, seet at Charleston, S. C., on the 3d, Master Adams, of lowa, in the chair. All the officers and about sixty delegates were present In his address the Master congratulated (trie Order on the strength gained during (trie Vast year, only a few •States not having organized, and they were About doing so. Trie Treasurer’s report was scad, and standing committees were appointed. A public wee ting of welcome was held at night at which speeches were delivered by prominent citizens and delegates. Taylor gall, part of tie Episcopal college at Batgne, Wis., was burned early on the morning of the 4th. The college library and apparatus were enttgplj destroyed. Loss About itiQoo; insurance $39,000. A fire in Ote Shaker settlement, at New Eebanot, & X* .on the 6th did extensive dam-

age. At one time the village was threatened with destruction. . ¥ PERSONAL. B. GlO*nlfield has taken his scat in Cun' gress aseuccessor to the late J. B. Riee,»f UiJ First Uttuois District. ( ' Judge Nellson on the Ist decided thajt Mr. Tilton was a competent witness in his suit against Mr. Beecher, but that he should not disclose confidential communications from his wife. Mr. Tilton then proceeded to give his testimony before the jury. Gen. Sheridan left New Orleans for Vicksburg on the evening of the 3d. "The People’s Savings Institution of St. Louis has suspenSeSj the Cashier having absconded with q, large amount of money belonging to the bank. King Kalakaim and suite and the United States Minister-at Hawaii, Mr. Pierce, sailed from San Francisco on the 3d on the United States steamer Pensacola, far Honolulu. Senator and ex-Gov. William A.,.Buckingham, of Connecticut, died at his home inNorwich on the night of the 4tli, aged seventy years. Samuel F. Hersev, of Maine, member of the present Congress and member-elect of the next, died ,on the 4th’, at Bangor, aged sixty-two years. The Rev. James De Kriven. I). D., Warden of Racine College, Wis., has been elected Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Illinois, The jury in the libel suit of Wm. H. Kemble against the New York Nun lias failed to agree. Gen. Sheridan returned to New Orleans on the 7th. POLITICAL. J A number of representatives of colored men, in Washington, from several of the Southern States, have recently issued an address, signed*by Frederick Douglass, John M. Langston, A. M. Giabs (Ark.), Philip Joseph (Ala.), and Geo. W. Price (N. C.), as committee, in which they appeal to Congress to take action in their behalf by “enacting and providing for the enforcement of appropriate laws for the better protection of persons, property and political rights’’ in the South. The address claims that a wretched state of affairs in the South will grow out of the neglect of Congress to pass such laws before the adjournment of the present session. „ A Harrisburg telegram of the 2d states that in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives the evening before, during-a discussion in a contested election ease, “issue being joined on parliamentary points, Mr. Wolf, Republican, came in conflict with the Speaker-, who finally ordered Wolf under arrest, when the Republican members rusned to the defense of their colleague and wrested him from the hands of the Sergeant-attArms. In the midst of the commotion the Speaker adjourned the House. During the melee pistols were drawn.”' lion. Angus Cameron, of La Crosse, was elected '.United States Senator by the Wisconsin Legislature on the 3d, by a coalition ol the Democrats and bolting Republicans. The final ballot was: Cameron, 68; Carpenter, 59; Hazelton, 8; Clark, 1. Mr. Qameron is said to be an Anti-Monopoly Republican, and a Milwaukee-dispatch says lie was nominated by the Democratic caucus conditionally upon his acceptance of a platform which includes hard money, tariff for revenue only and the supremacy of the civil authority in time of peace. The Michigan Republican State Convention to nominate two Justices of the Supreme Court and two Regents of the State University has been called to meet at Jackson on the 3d of March. In a caucus of the Conservative members of the Lutrisiana Legislature on the night of the stli a proposition was debated and finally adopted—4sß to 27 —favoring a proposed compromise that the Conservatives should be allowed a majority of about ten in the House, and that the past action of the Kellogg Government should not be inquired into. After the vote Speaker Wiltz, it is stated, tendered his resignation, and Gov. -McEuery, who was present by courtesy, said by this action of the caucus it was evident to him that It was time to lower the Democratic banner, and he therefore wished to retire. At a mass meeting held on the evening of the oth, addressed by McEnery, Wiltz and others, resolutions were adopted denouncing the proposed compromise in strong terms, and de•vlaring that nothing less than the reinstall* itient 9f the legally-declared Legislature as it stood on the 4th of January , would be agreed to - . Judge Rogers, of the Cook County (Ill.) Circuit Court, has declared to be unconstitutional the la*v requiring ballots to be numbered so that every man's vote may be known. A bill to abolish capital punishment has been defeated in the Ohio House of Representatives by a.vote of 42 yeas to 44 nays.

CONGRESSIONAL. In the Senate, on the Ist, the joint resolution of the Indiana Legislature* in favor of the passage of a bill granting pensions to surviving soldiers and saiors of the war with Mexico was presented, and a letter was read from the Coinsioner of Pensions stating that the number of survivors of that war was estimated at 05.604. number of widows of soldiers and sailors at about 12.1X10 The House bill to amend the National Bank act was passed with an amendment ... .The Louisiana question was further debated. ■Messrs. West and: Jlorrill speaking in defense of ' the Admimstration. In the House, on the Ist, resolutions to change the rules so as to provide that the Speaker should cot entertain dilatory motions (.except to adjourn) daring ’he pendenev of a ■ question were offered, and referred to the Committee on Rules ...A motion to suspend the rules and allow the Committee on Rules to report was twice made zed rejected, for want ol a two-thirds affirmative vete, the first being veas 179. nays 86. and the .second, yeas 173. uavs 89... A motion was adopted—U7U to 49 to-suspend the rules and pass the hill directing the President to supply food and disused army clothing to all destitute and helpless grasshopper sufferers on the Western troutier.... A recess was tak*n till 10 a. m. on the 2d. thus continuing Monday's session over to Tuesday. In the Senate, on the 2d, a memorial was presented by Jaates Brocks, of Aij-ansas. claiming to be the lawful Governor of that State, and that the present Government of the Swr.e was an usurpation, maintained hy armed force ...A bill was introduced and referred to authorial* the construction of a pontoon bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Dubuque, lowa .. After the transaction of some unimportant busii ess and an ex»*utive session the Senate adjount d. In the Bou«e, on the 2d, after two io-etV-ctual attmipts to get a two-thirds vote in favor of.Lhe suspencgcMi of the rules Cur the purpose <3 effecting a change * B the rules a motion was adops^Q—HJl UJ- ftOrto suspend the rules and allow the Committee on*RuJes tarenort any new rnle ot change rule: that during Its consideration tht -Speaker..hould entertain ao dilatory motion. .u*4 that dWfussion thereon should he limited to ««c hour. A rule was then reported and. alter a lengthy debate and the dirjxv sition of Ms'eral preleased amendment*, the rule was finally agreed to=»f 71 toß7—aud is as follow's; "Whenever * question is pending before the ; Houae the Speaker shaßoot entertain anv motion ! to adjourn, and do mode*, to fix the day to which ! the Hoase shall adjourn; hat the previous question on engrossment and triird reading ol any bill or joint resolution shali not be ordered during the first dav of ita consideration unless two-, thirds of the members present shall second the

. Tr-~Z ~ v ~ r \ demand:, {Prodded. Ttwt this rule shall not apply to llouae. resolution* offered, in the morning Uour of Monday; and provided further. That it shall not apply to but proposition to appropriate "tuiSney. eeftsft or «*her property of the United Stales except the regular annual appropriation bills''.. Messrs, Randall and Cox, who had previously atinoTniced the resignations of their places on the Committee on Rules and had Steen ruled Out of order, insisted on arch resignations, which were, alter debate, accepted . a bill was passed, under suspension of Uie rules, appropriating fu.Otxt for the expense of the Select Committee on Louisiana.... A motion w as male to take up the Senate Civil-Rights hill.yieldingwhich the House adjourned. In the Senate, on the 3d, a large number of possion bills were passed . A resolution was adopted requesting of t h>- President, if not incompatible -u ith the public interest. Information in ids possession, not previously transmitted to tlie Senate, respecting affairs in Arkansas. . . A resolution of citizens of Chicago in favor of a branch mint in that city was presented and referred-- House hill to provide for the relief of persons suffering from the ravages of grasshoppers was read and referred. fn the House, on the 3d, the Hennepin Canal bill was,postponed until the day after the Uhvil-Ri-ghtp bill should be passed, and the latter bill was cojuddered *duri;ig -the entire day and evening session, a;r,; inilai.tnT- lieme offered and debuted. Tin* M-nste'bill was offered as a subst.i tula for the House bill, and another substitute was also proposed. Messrs. Butler and McLean indulged in, acritnonious remarks toward each other in the course of the discussion, and other members engaged in personal controversy, No tice was given as a motion for the previous question at one o'clock on the Ith. In the Senate, on the 4th, the House hill to provide for the relief of persons suffering from thoravages of grasshoppers was passed.... The concurrent resolution to repeal the twehtysecond joint rule of the two houses of Congress was considered and a substitute was ottered, and referred to the Committee on Privileges and ' 'Elections', providing that “iio objection to the reception and counting of any electoral vote or votes from any State shall be valid unless such objection, is sustained by the affirmative vote of the two houses." In the House, on the 4th, the CivilRights bill was under discussion during the entire day, and in the course of the debate Mr Brown, of Kentucky, used some severe remarks which the Speaker interrupted as referring to a member of the House, but Mr. Brown said he was describing a character who was in his mind's eye. Continuing his remarks he used the expression: "If I was to desire to express all that was pusillanimous in war. inhuman in peace, forbidding in morals and infamous in politics I shout call ii • Butlerizing.’" Great sensation was caused by this remark, and the Speaker said the gentleman had not dealt in good faith with the Chair. Mr. Brown's language was reduced to writing, and alter debate a resolution was adopted—l6l to 79 —that Mr. Brown had been guilty of a violation of the privileges of the House and that he be publicly censured by the Speaker. He was then bro'u< r hl forward hv the Sergeant-aLArms and the public censure was administered, after which Mr. Brow n said he had intended no evasion or prevarication to the Speaker and no disrespect to the House.. . A unanimous report was made from the Committee ou Naval Affairs acquitting Stowell of the charges made against him of soliiuga naval cadetship, and the report was agreed t0....A recess was taken until ten a. m. on the sth. Tlie Senate adjourned on the sth, immediately after the reading of the journal, as a mark of respect to the memory of the .late Senator Buckingham, a committee having been appointed to attend his funeral. In the House, on the stli, after an exciting debate on the Civil-Rights bill, Mr. Butler concluding the discussion in a speech in behalf of the measure, a proposed amendment to strike out ol t lie House hill all in reference to schools was agreed to by a large majoritv. A motion to substitute the Senate tor the House bill was then re-jected-yeas 113, nays 148. The equal rights plank of the Democratic platform of 1872 was offered as a preamble to the bill, and leave was asked, and objected to, to add the fourth section of the game platform, declaring s<3Ug<m!rmpgfit~gM impartial bud l'rage. will guard the rights of all citizens more •ecurely thiin any central power.” The preamble was then adopted—2l9 to 20—and the bill as amended was then passed—yeas 162, nays 1W).... The Senate amendments to the Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill were concurred in, as also were some of the amendments to the Legislative Appropriation bill, others Keing nouconeurred in.... Adjourneji. In the Senate., on the 6tli, the bill to aegulate the counting of Presidential votes and the concurrent resolution to amend the twenty second joint rule were .reported from the Committee ou Privileges and Elections... .A memorial was presented from P. B. S. Pinchbeck, of Louisiana, asking action on his claim to admission as Senator... .The Senate bill to organize the Territory of Oklahama was reported from committee "and its further consideration was postponed until the second Monday in December next.... A conference committee was appointed on the Senate amendments to the bill amending the National Bank act.... The Civil-Rights bill passed by the House was received, read the second time'and referred to the Judiciary Committee. In the House, on the 6th, a bill was introduced and referred for the transmission ol correspondence by telegraph.. . Mr. Poland made a majority report from the Arkansas Investigating Committee recommending no action til the case, and a minority report, signed by Mr. Ward, of Illinois, was also presented favoring the restoration of Mr. Brooks as Governor and the overthrow of the present Constitution of that State.. ..A conference committee was appointed on the Legislative Appropriation bill ... The Henepiu Canal bill was taken up and debated, and a motion was made to lay it on the table. ' ■