Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1875 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Reported Serious Defeat of Uphonso’s Forces. He Issues < Decree tolling for W,OOO Recruits. PreaNkMrt’e Message an Arkan« sas Afftrfrs. Aa Order Relating to the Relief es Grasshopper Sufferers. William S. King Found In Canada and Subpoenaed. Tlmilew Orleans Congressional Committee Concludes Its Investigation. ■Other Interesting News Items. FOREIGN. , r An “ official” diepatch from Madrid, of the Sth, admits that the Alphoneiets had received «aerious check in their advance on_ Estella and that military operations had been suspended. The Carlists claimed to have won a •decided victory, declaring that Alphonso lost 7,000 in killed and wounded and several pieces of artillery. The Carlist chieftain Menderi had been arrested and shot for treason, by order es Don Carlos. The Bishop of Strasburg having issued a pastoral letter to his clergy in which he alleges that the church is persecuted, the German authorities have seized the copies and forbidden the promulgation of the document. Twenty-three German Catholic Bishops have issued a protest in behalf of the entire Roman Catholic Episcopate of Germany against any such Interference in the Papal election as is implied in Bismarck’s late circular dispatch. Telegrains of a late date from Shanghae and other portions of China indicate that a civil war was imminent in that country. King Alphonso has issued a royal decree calling for 70,000 men to recruit his army. Fifteen thousand of these are to be sent to Cuba. Later advices from China are to the effect that the widow of the late Emperor did not commit suicide, as had been previously reported. _ - ; . DOMES33C. President Grant has signed the act to amend the Customs and Internal Revenue laws, and for other purposes, known as the Little Tariff >BL A Washington Associated, Press dispatch of he 7th says Atty.-Gen. Williams had been before the Select Committee on Alabama Affairs and had been interrogated as to his Bending troops into that State last fall, and it appeared that he had had no correspondence with the Governor of the State on the subject, but acted on information from other sources The following is the message of President Grant on Arkansas affairs: To the Senate of the United States: Herewith 1 have the honor to send, in accordnee with the resolution of the Senate of the 3d i net., all information in my possession not heretofore furnished relating to' affaire in the State of Arkansas. 1 wiH venture to express the opinion that all the testimony shows that, in the electron of 1872, Joseph Brooks was lawfully elected Governor of that State; that he has been unlawfully deprived of the possession of his office since that time; that in 1874 the Constitution of the State was by violence, intimidation and revolutionary proceedings overthrown and -a new Constitution adopted and a new State Government established. These proceedings, if permitted to stand, practically ignore all the rights of minorities in all States. Also, what is there to prevent each of the States recently readmitted to Federal relations on certain conditions from changing their Constitutions and violating their pledges if this action in Arkansas is acquiesced jnr I respectfully submit whether a precedent so dangerous to the stability of State Government, if not of the National Government also, should be recognired by Congress. I earnestly ask that Congress will take definite action in this matter, to relieve the Executive from acting upon Questions which should be decided by the legislative branch of the Government. U. S. Grant. Executive Mansion, Feb. 8, 1875. On the morning of the 7th the eastern.bound express train on the Missouri Pacific .Railroad, at a point one and one-half miles .•from Osage River bridge, 115 miles from St. Louis, encountered a broken rail, and the smoking-car, one passenger •coach and a sleeper jumped the track and® slid partly down the embankment The sleeping-car and the passenger coach were badly wrecked, and twenty j>eraous were more or less seriously injured, one gjftit, was thought fatally. • The first train was run through the Hoosac Tunnel, in Massachusetts, on the 9th. It was composed of three gravel-cars and one box-car filled with 100 passengers. The passage was made in thirty-five minutes. The' track was not yet in a condition fit for runsing regular trains. Mandi Gras celebrations occurred on the ”9th at Louisville, ; Ky., Memphis, Tenn.. Little Ro2k, Ark., Terre Haute, Ind., and Fort Madisoi)>Jowa. The Indiana State Board of Agriculture have decided to hold an.exposition at Indianapolis this year, to begin, Sept 9 and continue twenty days. The National Grange has adopted a resolutiondeclaring the existing Patent laws oppressive, and requesting Lz tigress to grant no mere extensions and to axiend the Patent laws bo as to alk w any perece to use or manpafacture any patented article vn the payment •of a seasonable loyalty. The .choice of the next place for the meeting of the National ittrange is left .with the Exeeualre Committee. A loan has been agreed upon to each Si 'ate Grange of $2.5U10r each subordinate Gr ange in .the State. > 1 Tie new Revenue bin reported to the Nation. U House of Representatives from the Ways’and Means Committee, on the 10th. provid ea tor an increase In the tax on distilled liquors, fixing the name at one dollar per proof gallon, and making the tax on all brandy, gin, ram, and on all compounds anil preparations of which distilled spirits Is a cXmipitaent part of chief value, embracing alf forms of distilled spirits Im.

ported from foreign countries, s2.so’per proof gallon. a A Little Rock (Ark.) telegram of the 10th •BJ’s the report of the Arkansas Investigating Committee and the subsequent message of the President had created considerable, excitement there, and business was very mu< b depressed on account of the unsettled condition of affairs at Washington. Thirty-four States and three Territories were represented in the National Grange at Its recent session in Charleston, 8. C. The Bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church have fixed upon Monday, Marek 1, aa a day of testing and prayer, and issued an address to the American people pleading for the enjoyment of everycivil and political right. The Commissioner of the General Land Office has replied to a request to permit the Union Pacific Railroad Company to select lands containing eoal and iron in lieu of the agricultural lawds, which latter the company proposed to release in favor Of actual settlers, to the effect that the company receives all its coal and iron lands without any diminution on account of the claim of any settler, and to allow it, in addition, to surrender agricultural lands and lake the reserved coal lands, of greatly increased value, would be an enlargement of the grant and an express violation of the act under which the claim was presented. A general order from the War Department with reference to carrying out the provisions of the act of Congress approved Feb. 10, 1875, to provide for the relief of persons suffering from the ravages of grasshoppers upon the Western 'frontiers says: It is ordered bv the President that the commanders of the Departments of tho Platte, the Missouri and Dakota shall cause to be made, as soon au,practicable. an enrollment of the inhabitants of th* States and Territories within these department* who have been rendered destitute by the ravages aforesaid, which enrollment will, so far as practicable, group families together, giving the name of each person entitled to relief; children under twelve years of age to be rated separately. Applicants for supplies should make statements ou blanks furnished them of their resources convertible with safety to their families into a supply of food, and the names of such person h as may be found to have resources so convertible sha’ll not be placed on the roll until such resources are exhausted.' The Supreme Court of Massachusetts has rendered a decision in the case of Jesse H. Pomeroy, the Boston boy-murderer, overruling the exceptions and ordering judgment on the verdict. He will therefore be sentenced to death. A new freight tariff has been adopted by the Eastern railway companies, and the following is the tariff agreed upon from Chicago: To Philadelphia and Baltimore—First* class, $1.35; second, $1.00; third, 75 cents; fourth, 35 cents; grain, 35 cents; flour, 70 cents; bulk meats, 40 cents. New York— First-class, $1.50; second, $1.10;- third, 85 cents; fourth, 40 cents; grain, 40 cents; flour, 80 cents; bulk meats, 45 cents. The Western lines have adopted the following tariff on freight east of Chicago, consigned to points west of the Mississippi River: From St. Louis, Louisiana, Hannibal, Quincy, Burlington and Davenport to Kansas City, Omaha, Council Bluffs, and other points on the Missouri River: First-class, 72 cents; second, 49; third, 38; B, $46. -—; < The National Grange has adopted a resolution in—favor of the Centennial Exposition and one in favor of the Texas Pacific Railroad. The improvement of the mouth of the Mississippi River was urged, and Congress was asked to repeal all laws taxing tobacco and to use its influence toward an adoption of the same policy by other Governments. PERSONAL. j, A Washington dispatch of the Gth states that William 8. King had been found "by a messenger of the Sergeant at-Arms of the House, near Compton, Canada, and subpoenaed to appear before the Committee on Ways and Means and testify as to his connection with the Pacific Mail subsidy business. J.-L. Routt, of Hlinois, Second Assistant Postmaster General, has been appointed and confirmed as Governor of Colorado, cut E. M. McCook, resigned. Whiting, who received $60,000 of the Pacific Mail Steamship subsidy, has been discovered in Hamilton, Canada, and a subpoena served on him by telegraph. The funeral of the late Senator Buckingingham, Of Connecticut, took place at Norwich on the 9th, and was largely attended. Wm. W. Eaton, Senator-elect from Counecticut, has been appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Buckingham, the terra ending March 4. Ex-U. S. Senator John M. Thayer, of Nebraska, has been nominated by the President for Governor of Wyoming. The Executive Committee of the National Grange has been enlarged to five members by the election of Dudley S. Chase, of New Hampshire, and John T. Jones, of Arkansas, to serve three years. The other members are D. W. Aikin,)of South Carolina, re-elected for three years,'"‘Wm. Sanders, of Washington, who holds over for one year, and E. B. Shankland, of lowa, who holds over for two years. A report of the committee on the address of Master Adams, indorsing his recommendation that subordinate Granges be fostered by the National Grange and that manufactures in the South be encouraged, was adopted by the National Grange on the 12th. - Representative Beck, of Kentucky, had his wrjst broken by a fall on the ice at Washington on the evening of the 11th. Hon. Samuel Hooper, Member of Congress rom the Fourth Massachusetts District, died n Washington on the 13th, of pneumonia. POLITICAL. The Congressional Committee on Louisiana Affairs concluded their investigation on rue 6th, and adjourned to meet in Washington. A Conservative proposition for a coranromise of the Louisiana diffiulties, submitted to the Congressional Investigating Commit, tee, has been rejecu-u by that body. The propoeal was to the effect that the election of 1872 should not be included in the adjustment: the election of the Treasurer and members of the Legislature in 1874 to be submitted. asd the lieuse organized on the ba sis of the committee’s award; the Kellogg Government not to be disturbed so long as it is sustained by the President, and the Senators' returned by the arbitration to be seated. C. W. Jones (Dem.) has been elected United States Senator by the Florida Legislature. The vote on the final ballot was: Jottos. 40; Bisbee (Rep.), 25; rest scattering. Jofffcs had the unanimous support of the Democrats and Independent Republicans. The Grand Jury at Little Rock, Ark., made S report on the 12th to the effect that, in pursuance of the instructions of Gov. Garland, the Prosecuting-Attorney had summoned before that body parties complaining of a reign,! of terror in the Stale, and that about forty complaining witnesses had 1

been examined and the jury Was not j abk, ufter diligent questioning, to find a single instance in which any man had been deprived of hia right to vote or any other right,' but, on tha contrary, unusual quiet pre. vailed. ' The Legislature of West Virginia have resolved to remove the capital of the State to Wheeling. CONGRESSIONAL. In the Senate, on the Bth, the House, bill tor the relief of John W. Marsh (the SewingMachine Patent bill) was rejected—23 to 1* . A memorial of citizens waft presented and referred praying an amendment to the Constitution to uOolJeh the Offices of President and Vice-Presi-dent. and resting the powers now belonging to them in a council of seven members to be chosen ny the Uouoe of Bepresentatives, to which body they shall be responsible.... A message was receiv.-d from the President in regard' to uQkirfi in Arkansas . . .Mr. Morton, from the Committee <m Privileges and Elections. Huhmittea a report in the case of P. B. 8. Pinchhack, and a resolution declaring him entitled to a seat aa Senator from Louisiana from March 4. 1H73. Objection was raised that the report not being signed by a majority of the whole committee was not a majority report, but the Chair decidedthat -five members being present it tiie lime action war determined on, and four of the five signing the report, it became a report of t lie committee, which report was ordered printed, and notice was given of a minority report. In the House, on the Bth, among the bills introduced were the following: To increase the public revenue and decrease the interest on the public debt; providing for tax on incomes above S2,<MX); appropriating 31,000,000 for deepening the channel of the Missouri River from Sioux <Jity to its motjthrlor the improvement of. certain rivers and harbors.. The bill giving bounties to the heirs of soldiers who served less than one year in the army was passed—l9l to 23. ...Amotion to suspend the rnles and adopt a resolution declaring that, in the judgment of the House, the election of a President for a third term is against the traditions of the Republic, is in violation of the example of Washington—now sacred as law itself—and would be hazardous alike for the liberties of the people and free institutions of the country, was lost—s 7to 102.... An adverse report was made on the application for extension of the Wilson sewing mashine patent*. In the Senate, on the 9th, the House bill to reduce and fix the Adjutant-General's Department of the army was passed.... But little business was transacted, an oirly adjournment being had out of respect to the late Senator Buckingham, whose funeral took place to-day. In the House, on the 9th, after the passage of some unimportant bills and resolutions, an unsuccessful effort was made to have the committee's report in the case of Delegate Cannon, of Utah, considered... .The Indian Appropriation bill was considered in Committee of the Whole, and agreed to except the Choctaw and Chickasaw amendment,—This amendment was then rejected by the House — veas 88, nave 137—and the bill was passed—l 62 to 62. In the Senate, on the 10th, after the transaction of some other business relating; to the Dtetrict of Columbia, several bills making appro priations and providing sites for public buildings in Covington, Ky., St. Augustine, Fla., Topeka. Kan., and Harrisburg, Pa., were considered and passed... .The Steamboat bill was recommitted to the Committee ou Commerce. In the House, on the 10th, a bill was in troduced supplementary to the acts concerning im migration, relatiug to the coolie trade, providing that when immigrants 'have entered into a contract or agreement for a term of service within the United States such immigration shall not be deemed voluntary, and making it a penal offense for American citizens to be engaged in such trade .... A new. tariff bill was reported from the Committee dn Ways and Means and referred to Committee of the Whole... .The Postoffice Appropriation bill ($37,524,361) was considered in Committee of the Whole, and several proposed amendments were disposed 0f... .The evening session was held for debate only. In the Senate, on the 11th, a minority report was presented from the Committee on Wectrons, signed bv Messrs. Hamilton and Saulsbury. against the admission of Mr. Piachback as Senator from Louisiana.... The House bill authorizing the President to appoint a commission to attend the International Penitentiary Congress to be held iu Rome next year was passed The Senate bill granting the right of way to the Salt Lake & Walia Walla Railroad and Transportation Company, and for other purposes, was discussed and rejected—yeas 15, nays 23... .The bill to provide a government for the District of Columbia was taken up, and the amendment to have the Commissioners elected'.by the voters of the District instead of being appointed by the President was rejected—2B to 28. In the House, on the 11th, the Postoffice Appropriation bill was reported from Committee of the Whole, with ah amendment providing for the free transmission of public documents and seeds from the Agricultural Department through the mails, which amendment was re-jected-yeas 93. nays 125. An amendment canceling the Pacific Mail contract of 1872 was agreed to, and the bill was passed... .The Tariff bill was considered in Committee of the Whole, and a lengthy debate ensued, Mr. Dawes advocating and Mr. Wood opposing the measure. In the Senate, on the 12th, during a discussion on the Portland, Dallas & Salt Lake Railroad bill, it was stated that the Committee on Railroads had before them, during the present session, six or seven bills providing for subsidies, aud after careful consideration had concluded not to report any of them favorably to the Senate. The bill under consideration was’refused a third reading by a vote of twenty-six nays to two yeas .... The District of Columbia bill was further considered, and an amendment that two of the pro? posed Commissioners should be appointed by tfie President and one be elected by the voters of the District was rejected—yeas 13, nays 38. In the House, on the 12th, the Revenue bill was further considered in Committee of the Whole. Messrs. Roberts and Kelley,of Pennsylvania. making speeches on the same.... Several private bills were then disposed 0f... .A bill for the relief of certain loyal creditors whose moneys were confiscated by the Confederate Congress in Louisiana, providing for the distribution of $203,334 pro rata, was reported by the committee. Much opposition to the bill was manifested, aud a final vote was not taken. In the Senate, on the 13th, Mr. Eaton was sworn in as the successor of the late Mr. Buckingham, of Connecticut. ...A memorial was “presented from the Pacific Mail Steamship Company against the repeal of the subsidy granted that company, and a resolution was agreed to the Judiciary Committee to inquire and report whether the Government is legallybound to now carry into effect anv contract made under the act of June 1. 1872. respecting additional mail service between San Francisco, China and Japan.... The District of Columbia Gov-ernment-bill was further considered in Committee, of the Whole and reported- to the Senate, when the resolution to have two of the Commissioners elected by the votess of the District and one appointed by the President was renewed and further amended and again rejected. Iu the House, on the 13th, the bills to provide for the relief of certain loyal creditors whose moneys were confiscated by the Confederate Congress aud making compensation for supplies taken by Union soldiers during the Morgan raid were defeated ...The Pension and Military Academy Appropiation bills were passed, as was also the bill for the equalization of bounties—l 77 to 39—which provides lor the payment to every non-eommissioned officer, musician, artificer, wagoner aud private soldier, sailor and marine, including those borneon the rolisas slaves, who were mustered into the service anti Were subsisted, clothed and paid by the Government and were honorably discharged. Sb.SPs, per month for the' term of his service between the 12th of April. 1861. and Kh of May. 1865, with a deduction off all bounties i heretofore paid by the United States and. States — substitutes andsuch as were prisoners of war at ■ the time of enlistment, aud also such as were - sliscliarged as minors or at theirownraquest from other cause than disability, being-- ; excluded. , A heft the soldier is dead, the toanty is to be ■ paid to the widow, if not remarried, er to minor > child or children. ■ M exdell Phillips can, by calling on 1 Mons. De La Bastie, gain sonie valuable information. After six years of experiment the Frenchman has drived the problem of making malleable glass, which can be beaten or bent like copper and can be used for cooking utensils. One lost art is therefore restored. — —The annual statement of the Rhode Island savings institutions, thirty-seven in nuruber,* shows the total ameunt of. deposits to be S4B 771,501, a gain of $2,000,000 past vear. Toe number of depositors a gain of 5,286.