Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1875 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Esghwd Recognizes the New King of Spain. The French Cabinet Tender Their Resignations. TerriMe Fire Disaster in Gottenburg, Sweden. Port at Prince, Hayti, Nearly Deatroyed by Fire. Hr fegehtioi for the Admresioa as Piachback Tabled n tht Senate. The President Calls an Extra Session * of the Senate for March &. Election of 0. S. Senators in Minnesota tad West Virginia. Adjcnnunrnt of ahe Notional Grange, Patrons of Husbandry. Interesting New* From All Quarters.

FOREIGN. The French Cabinet recently tendered their resignations in consequence of the opposition in the Assembly to the constitutional bills, which were made a Government measure. The President, finding no French statesman willing to undertake the formation of a new Cabinet during the pendency of these bills, requested the old Cabinet to continue until some one could be found. A telegram from Singapore reports a revolt of Chinese prisoners in the jail there which was not repressed until sixty-seven persons had been killed, including sixteen wardens. Great Britain has recognized the new King of Spain. Archbishop Cullen, of Dublin, in a pastoral letter condemns the mission in Great Britain of Moody and Sankey (revival preachers of Chicago), who, he says, “ promise salvation by foolish sensationalism, without requiring repentance.” The British steamer George Balters, for Gibraltar, is supposed to have foundered at sea and twenty-one persons—her entire crew —to have been drowned. John Mitchel has been returned to the British Parliament from Tipperary without opposition. Dr. Kenealy, the counsel for the Tiehborne claimant, has been elected to Parliament from Btoke-on-Tren* by 2,000 majority. The Cuban insurgents have recently defeated a Spanish column near Man&c&s. The Bpanish loss was 150. The English Parliament on the 18th adopted a resolution declaring John Mitchel, the newly-elected member from Tipperary, ineligible on the ground that he is a convicted felon. A match factory at Gottenburg, Sweden, crowded with working people, took fire on the 19th. The flames spread with such rapidity that the employes m the upper stories were cut off from escape, and many perished in the flames or were killed by jumping from the windows. Fifty-one lives are reported lost. A fire occurred in Port au Prince, Uayti, on the night of the 11th, which swept over two-thirds of the city, involving a loss property valued at $2,000,000, and rendering TOO families homeless. The fire is thought to have originated from the explosion of a barrel of kerosene. A Madrid telegram of the 20th says that .'Spain had agreed to pay $84,000 indemnity for the Virginius affair. The Grrmania newspaper, printed at Berlin, having published the recent encyclical letter «f the Pope to the Prussian Bishops, has been confiscated and the proprietors prosecuted. An explosion occurred in the safety-fuse works at Redraths, Cornwall, England, on the 20th. Five girls were killed. John Mitchel on the 21st issued an address to the.olectors of Tipperary, presenting him • «elf again as a candidate for Parliament. A London dispatch of the morning of the 2Sd says that a fleet of British men-of-war had bombarded and captured Fort Mombaxique, on the island of Mombaz, off the east coast of Africa Two slave-ships were captured, with 300 slaves on board.

'doukstic. A Washington dispatch o( the 15th states that the Secretary of War "had directed that the recent general orderproviding for furnishing supplies to grasshopper sufferers in the West -should be carried out with the utmost dispatch. A Kew York dispatch of the 15th says the Faeifie Mail Directors had approved the action of Bufns Hatch in ordering the institution of suits against those parties alleged to have received subsidy money. About thirty persons will be involved. The Missouri State Woman’s Suffrage Association held a largely-attended meeting in 8t- Louis oo the evening of the 10th. • The Kansas Legislature has passed a bill to loan destitute counties in the State $95,000 for six years, without interest A young laboring man committed suicide In Washington on the 17th by Jumping from the dome of the Capitol. He failed to clear the building and fell on the roof near the entrance to the dome and was Instantly killed. The distance of the fall was oyer 150 feet * A railroad war has broken out between the, Baltimore A Ohio and the Pennsylvania Companies, and os the 17th the former company had made a great reduction in passenger fare between the East and West, the fare Cram Chicago to New York being reduced from twenty-two to fifteen .dollars and to Washington from nineteen to ten dollars. The Illinois State Board of Agriculture has located the State Fair for the next two year* /StOftfiwa.

Miss Doyle, a young lsdydf Indianapolis, was fatally burned on the 18th while pouring eOal-oil over a sluggish lire. At West Jefferson, Ohio, on the 1 7th, a small child of William Strgtton upset a coal-oil lamp. Mrs. 8. picked op the lamp, when It exploded in her hand, throwing a flame of Are over her which consumed her clothes and caused almost instant death. The President issued a proclamation on the 18th convening the Senate in extraordinary session «o the sth of March, to act upon such communications as may be made to it on the part of the Executive. Eighty-three different bills granting pensi on* tp individuals were passed'by the National House of Representatives at the evening session Of thd 18th. Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Mellott, of McCbnnellstiurg, Pa., went away from home on a visit on the 16th, leaving three children locked in the house. On their return a few hours afterward they found the bones of the children in the ruins of the house, which had burned Sown during their absence. A verdict has been given in New York against the New York A New- Haven Rail row d Company for over $15,000 in favor of a passenger who was robbed of that amount. The decision affirmed that a railroad company must protect its patrons. Near Mingo Junction, Ohio, on the morning of the 19th, a train on the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railroad ran over a broken rafl and one baggage-car, two passenger coaches, two sleeping-cars and one special car were thrown over the embankment and burned. The baggage was destroyed, No one was killed, but several persons were injwed, among them J. N. McCullough, First Vico'd’resident of the P., Ft. WAC. Railroad Company, who had three ribs broken and was cut about the head. Recent accounts say there were three feet of snow on the level at Fort Snllv. As trains ■come in from the Northwest dismal tales of accidents and death by storm and cold are brought from all sections. Reports recently received from the gold mines of the Black Hills are of an encouraging nature. An accident occurred on the Chicago, Rock Island A Pacific Railroad on the 20th, near Sheffield, eaused by a broken rail. A passenger coach and a Pullman car werq thrown into a culvert and several persons were injured, one passenger—F. L. Browning, of Annawan, Ill.—being fatally crushed under the sleeping-car, from which he had previously jumped.

PERSONAL. The National Grange adjourned on the 16th, after instructing the Executive Committee to make arrangements for holding the next session at Chicago, providing the expense to the Grange does not exceed the expense o meeting in St. Louis. Among other resolutions adopted was on# indorsing and recommending the resolutions adopted by the Atlanta Agricultural Congress last May, which resolutions ask for the construction by the National Government of a system of waterways so that unrestricted channels of trade shall be opened, and not only brought the entire length of the Mississippi but connecting that great river with the Atlantic Ocean by way of the lakes by the Ohio, Kanawha and James, and by the Tennessee and Savannah Rivers. Hon. M. L. Duulap, the well-known agricultural and horticultural writer over the signature of “ Rural,” died recently at his home in Champaign, lU., aged about sixty years. * In the Beecher trial, on the 16th, Mr. Tilton left the witness-stand temporarily to give place to a woman named Catherine Cary, formerly a nurse in the plaintiff’s family, who had been subpoenaed by the prosecution and, was in waiting to give her evidence. Slur testified to having seen Mr. Beecher go into Mrs. Tilton's bedroom on several occasions, and to having seen the latter sitting on the lap of the former in the back parlor. After this evidence was given Mr. Tilton resumed the witness stand. On the 17th, just at the close of the proceedings for the day, one of the jurors was taken suddenly sick and was sent home iu charge of two court officers. Vyse & Co., straw goods dealers of New York city, have failed, with liabilities reported at #1,000,000.

The examination of Mr. Tilton was concluded on the 18th, and four other witnesses were called to the stand —Geo. A. Bell, cxDeaeon of Plymouth Church; Joseph H. Richards, a brother of Mrs. Tilton; MrBraislier and Mr. Robinson, Mr. Moultou’s business partner,. Mrs. F. D. Moulton was on the witness stand on the 19th. The testimony of these witnesses mainly corroborated and in some respects added to the testimony of Messrs. Moulton aud TUton, whose evidence was a reiteration iu detail of their previously-published statements. The wife of Senator-elect McDonald, of Indiana, died suddenly a few days ago. Thev had been married only a few months. On the 18th a negro was admitted into the seniorelass of the Boys’ High School in New Orleans. Twenty out of twenty-two in the class left the school immediately. No disturbance.

POLITICAL. The Connecticut Democratic State Convention met at Hartford on the 10th, and renominated by acclamation the old ticket, headed by Gov. Charles R. Ingersoll. The resolutions adopted favor hard money and oppose Federal Executive interference in the States of Louisiana and Arkausas and the increase of Federal taxation at a time when the industry of the country is so greatly depressed. The Democratic members of Congress from the South and Southwest have issued an address to the people of the South, which concludes with ah appeal to them “for continued forbearance and hopeful reliance upon the virtue and the sense of justice of the American people for the ultimate vindication of our rights, the protection of our liberties, and the safety of our republican form of government.” Allen T. Caperton (Democrat) was elected United States Senator by the West Virginia Legislature on the 17th. The final vote stood: Caperton, 68; Berkshire, 14. The Minnesota Legislature on the 19th elected S. J. R. McMillan (Republican, and Chief-Justice of the State Supreme Court) to succeed Mr. Ramsey in the United States Senate. The vote was: McMillan, Lochren (Bem.), 8L Congressman William S. King, of Minnesota, has written a lengthy letter to the Legislature of bis State in relation to the joint resolution passed by that body calling on him to appear before the Congressional Committee and explain his connection with the Pacific Mail subsidy business or to resign as Representative. He characterizes the'resolutions as “ very extraordinary in so far as they correctly Illustrate your lack of knowledge of

the common - proprieties.and decencies of offlclal'posltion, your painful disregard of truth In \our official action, and your false anil hy|M« ritleal pretense- of virtuous -' ner g»rd for the honor of the State of .Minnesota." He pronounces false the charge that lie had accepted money as a considerition for his services in behalf of the Subsidy bill, and emphatically asserts, as he says he stated under oath two years ago, that be never accepted uor received a dollar in . consideration of such service, and that not one dollar of the money received by him was ever intended or applied to influence a vote on such bill. — At a caucus held in Washington on the 20th, attended by leading Republicans and the Congressional delegation from Louisiana, it was agreed to leave 'but the question of the election of 1872, and to recognize Kellogg as Governor as long as the Government shall continue, to sustain him as such; the four Conservatives unseated in the Legislature on the 4th Of January to be admitted, and a new organieanon of the Legislaturetolie secured.

CONGRESSIONAL. In the Senate, on the 15th, in the absence of Vice-President Wilson. Mr. Anthonyyof Rhode Island. Was chosen President pro teni.... A report of the Conference Committee on the bill to amend the National Bank act was agreed t 0.... The House Civil-Rights bill was reported from the .1 udiciary Committee without amendment... A bill' wits introduced and referred to secure depositors in the Fneedmen's Savings and Trust Company from ultimate 1055.... The bill to‘provide a government lor the District ot Columbia was taken tip and laid on the table—34 to 23—to take np the resolution for the admission of Pinchback as Senator from Louisiana, which resolution was advocated by Mr. Morton....A message was received from the House announcing the death of Representative Hooper, and it was resoJved to attend the funeral on_the ltith, and an adjournment was had out of respect to the memory of the deceased. In the House, on the 15th, several bills of a private character were introduced and referred, as was. also a bill to. amend the charter of the Freedmen's Bureau and continue the same ... The Terns Indemnity Bond bill was passed, as was also the Senate bill to allow Thomas W. Fitch, Engineer in the navy, to accept the wedding present sent to his wife by Khedive of Egypt ... .Announcement was made of the death of Representative Hooper, of Massachusetts, and a committee Of seven was appointed to superintend the funeral ceremonies in the hall of the Honse on the ltith, and out of respect for the deceased the House then adjourned. In the Senate, on the 16ih, Mr. Sargent continued his argument, begun the day before, on the Pinchback resolution... .The Judiciary Committee matte a report as to the meaning and extent of the so-called “ Press-gag law,’’ expressing an opinion that the said act is not obnoxious to anv crittcisms, and that it confers no power either to bring a person charged with libel into the District of Columbia orpsend him out of it ....The Senators attended the funeral of Mr. Hooper. In the House, on the 16th, several bills of a private character were passed... .The An nual Post-route bill was reported and passed, and the Sundry Civil and River and Harbor Appropriation bills were reported from committees ....A bill was introduced to return to the Government of Japan one-lqjlf oi the indemnity fund paid by the Government under the convention of 1864, and to dispose ot the balance of the fund....A bill was reported from the Committee on Elections proposing an amendment to the Constitution in reference to the election of President and Vice-President, similar in its provisions to the proposed amendment of Senator Morton.. .The funeral services of the late Mr. Hooper took place at two o’clock, the galleries of the House beiug crowded.. In the Senate, on the 17th, a bill was introduced, and referred establishing rules and articles for the government of the army.. The vote by which the bill to grant a site for the Peabody School in St. Augusta, Fla., was passed was rescinded—3l to 25.... The Pinchback resolution was taken up and debated, the discussion extending into the night, the Senate not having adjourned up to 1:15 ou the morniug of the 18th. In the House, on the 17th, the Tariff bill was considered and amended in Committee of the Wh01e.... An evening session was held at which a number of bills w**re reported from the Judiciary Committee and passed... A lengthy debate followed on a bill to establish certain telegraph lines in the several States and Territories as post roads and to regulate the transmission of commercial and other intelligence by telegraph. In the Senate, on the 18th, the session of the day before was continued, and the PTnchbnck resolution was under consideration up to four o'clock p. m., when a motion to lay the resolution on the table was carried—39 t022....The Indian Appropriation bill was then taken np ants several unimportant amendments were agreed to ... .Adjourned after a coutiuuous session oi nearly twenty-nine hours. In the House, on The 18th, the Revenue bill was further considered in Committee of the Whole, and several proposed amendments were disposed 0f.... The bill for the improvement of the Mississippi River was taken up and several amendments were offered and rejected, aud one was adopted to strike out that portion of the bill directing the Secretary ot War to construct the work in case of the "default of Mr. Eads, and the bill was then passed... The hill agreed upon in the Republican caucus, relating to Southern affairs, giving the President power to suspend the habeas corpus in certain cases, etc., was reported from the Select Committee on Alabama Affairs and recommitted... An evening session was held for the consideration of Pension bills only. In the Senate, on the 19th, a resolution of the Legislature of Missouri was presented and referred in favor of establishing a branch mint at St, Lotus... .In a discussion on the House Bounty bill Mr. Sargent said he understood it woffld take SISO.OOO.UOO ' from the Treasury. Mr. Logan said it would not take #A),000 from the Treasury, aud gave notice that he would uress the bill to a vote the following week ..The House bill for the improvement of the mouth of the Mississippi River was referred -.-.-. Several amendments were made to the Indian Appropriation bill. In the House, on the 19th, several bills, memorials, etc., were introduced, the most im-portant-of which yvas a bill from the Pacific Railroad Committee to amend the act incorporating the Texas Pacific Railroad Company, which was ordered printed aud recommitted....A bill was passed authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Missouri River near Sioux City. 10wa... .The Army Appropriation bill 1*2T.T01,500) was considered in Committee of .the Whulivreported to the House and passed without discussion.... Mr. Poland, from the Select Committee on Arkansas Affairs, reported a resolution that the report committee be accepted, and that, in the judgment of the House, no interference with the existing Government of that State bv anv department of the Government is advisable. lie gave notice that he would call it up as early as possible the ensuing week. In the Senate, on the 20th, a resolution was agreed to providing for a committee of fice Senators to examine into the several branches of the civil service, during the recess, with a view to the reorganization of the several departments thereof. ...The joint resolution which passed the Honse last winter, relating to civil-service appointments. was passed, and provides that when disabled United States soldiers, their wives, or the widows or orphans of deceased soldiers shall pass the examination at the standard fixed by the rules they shall have precedence for appointment to vacancies ...A bill was introduced and referred to allow pre-emptors to pre-empt an additional amount to aggregate 100 acres of public, ceded or Indian irnst lands.... The Indian Appropriation bill was considered aud several amendments were concurred in.... Messages were received from the Honse announcing the deaths of Messrs. Rice, Hersev. Crocker and Hooper, and after, eulogies and the adptiou *>f the customary resolutions the Senate adjourned ont of respect to their memory. In the Hopse, on the 20th, the Tax bill was discussed in Com mitt** a>f the Whole, and '» motion to strike out section restoring the 10 per cents redaction on manufactured goods was lost—yeas Hi. nays 103 j . A report,was made from the Committee on Public Lands in favor of authorizing the Wisconsio.Jpentral Railroad Company to straighten its line.... The petition of the National Grange and the resolmio'hs of tlje South Carolina Legislature in favorof aid to the Texas Pacific Railroad Company were presented and re-. ferred .. Etflogies were pronounced upon the late deceitscd members, Messrs. Rice, Crocker. Uersey liftTHooper.... Adjourned. . “3lv family is covered by my hat,” is the latest way for an unmarried man to announce his single-blessedness.