Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1875 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

A Mexican Town Destroyed by an Earthquake. Death of John Mitchel, the Irish Patriot. Tk« New Hampshire State ElectionOfficial Returns. The Beecher Trial— Continuation of Evidence for the Defense. Flood Disasters on the Susquehanna and Delaware Rivers. sffe Destructive Tornado in Georgia and South Carolina. Terrible Powder Eiplwloa Near Cleveland, onto. Intereslins News From All Quarters.

FOREIGN. A London dispatch of the 15th says that Immense crowds are attending the revival meetings in that city of Messrs. Moody and S&nkey, the Chicago evangelists. On that night there were 30,000 people present, and thousands were turned away. Duke D’Andifret Pasquier has been elected President of the French Assembly. Twenty-two young men of Cuban birth, residents of Cienfuegos, were recently arrested in their homes in that city by volunteers and *hot outside the walls, without even the form t)f a trial. Gen. Cabrera, a Cailist chieftau of consider able prominence, has issued an address announcing his recognition of Alphouso as King of Spain. A Carlist proclamation has also appeared denouncing Cabrera as a traitor. On the night of the lltb ult. an earthquake of more than usual severity occurred in Northern Mexicor The little town of San Cristobal was almost entirely destroyed and aeventy dead bodies were taken from the ruins. P An English surveying party, commanded by a British Lieutenant and consisting of sixty-three Sepoys and coolies, have been massacred by the natives of Assam. In obedience to the demand of King Alphonso, Don Alphonso, brother of Dou Carlos, has been extradited from Germany. Difficulties have arisen between the Indian Government and the King of Burmah in relation to boundaries and the latter’s claim to sovereignty over several independent States. The King has occupied the disputed territory and refuses to withdraw, and British troops are moving upon British Burmah. In the German lower house, on the ISth, the main clauses of the bill withdrawing State grants from the recalcitrant Catholic Bishops were adopted by overwhelming majorities. . V The Spanisli Government has Requested Austria not to permit Don Alphonso to reside in Austrian territory. The German frigate Ariadne' has been ordered to Swatow to support the demand upon Spain for indemnity for the plundering of a German bark. A Paris dispatch of the -Oth represents that the Government of King Alphonso had adopted an arbitrary policy toward the press. The Iberia had been suspended and all telegraphic •dispatches were detained and examined. A Madrid telegram of the 21st says Gen. ■Campos had defeated the Carlists before Olot And entered the town. Over 900 Carlists had been captured. John Mitchel died on the 20th at his residence in Tipperary. Off the 21st the Irishmen in London met in Hyde Park to the number of 30,000, and adopted resolutions demanding the release of the Fenian prisoners, condemning the coercive laws in Ireland, and condoling with the family of John Mitchel

DOMESTIC. The Secretary of State, on the 15th, communicated to the Senate the correspondence between the United States and Spanish Governments relative to the claim for indesnnity for the execution at Santiago de Cuba of Americans who were on board the Virginias. This correspondence shows that the British claim was originally £SOO for each white and £3OO for each colored man, beihg a total of £7,700, which was finally reduced to £0,700. The original claim of the United States was $2,500 for each of the crew slain, regardless of color, and aj,larger sum for each officer killed. The claim was strenuously pressed until Spain agreed to pay SBO,OOO in gold, unconditionally, the money to be distributed bv the United Btates-without any accountability to Spain for sums not claimed by individuals, as whs stipulated is the ease of Great Britain. Gen. Sherman has recently stated that expeditions to the Black Hills couni-y will be prevented from entering that region, or if any get in they will be driven out as soon as the weather will permit A Washington dispatch of the IStk says the Government will endeavor to extinguish the Indian title at the earliest practicable moment, hut until that is ■done all persons will be prokibited froo goissg there, and those now there will be required to remove. The anti-liquor crusade was begun asain in Chicago on the evening of the 14th, several ladies visiting a billiard and liquor saloon and engaging in singing and prayer. The proprietor iraa appealed to to abandon the traffic. The crusaders were treated with respect proprietor and a large number of spectators present, but no conversion is reported. An'explosion occurred at the Austin Powder Company’s mills, five miles south of Cleveland, on the 16th, and the works, composed of ten or twelve Weldings, were com- ! pletely demolished. Of the eight or ten men ! nt work in and about the mills at the time of the accident, three were killed, the rest escaping with slight injuries. Much damage was done to bouses in the immediate neigh- j

borhood of the explosion, jnd buildings in • Cleveland wero considerably Shaken, people ! rushed into the streets, hones were frightenet and many windows and large plate-glass j fronts were shattered, the damage in the city j amounting to $35,000 to $30,000. Great disasters have been caused In some j portions of the East by spring floods and Icb» gorges. Several bridges on the Susquehanna, Delaware and other rivers have been carried away and much other damage to property is reported. Before the gorge broke at Port Jervis, N. T., the Ipwcr portion of the city was inundated to the depth of ten feet, some houses firing submerged up to the second stories. No lives lost The new and magnificent railroad bridge crossing the Susquehanna at Pitts ton, Pa., was carried away about ten minutes after the passing over of a passenger train. At Germantown several small bouses were destroyed. Danville and Wilkeebarre, Pa., and other towns in that and adjoining States suffered severely by the floods. Geu. Sheridan has issued instructions to Gen. Terry at St. Paul and Gen. Ord at Omaha, directing them, in the event of the mining companies organizing at Bioux City and Yankton trespassing on the Sioux Indian reservation, to use the forces at their command to bum the wagon trains, destroy the outfit and arrest the . leaders, con- j fining them at the nearest military post j in thc Indian country. Should the miners succeed in reaching the interior, these oflicers are directed to send 6uch force of cavalry in pursuit as will accomplish the purpose above named. Gen. Sheridan adds that should Congress open up the country for settlement by extinguishing the treaty rights of the Indians he will give a cordial support to the settlement of the Black Hills. The flood in the Susquehanna River continued on the 19th, and immense damage was being done in many localities. At Port Deposit, Md., the water was from five to fifteen feet deep in the streets. A San Francisco dispatch of the 19th 6ays the crops were in splendid condition and a large crop was certain, but if copious rains fell within tyro weeks there would be the largest harvest ever known there. A water-spout at Fayetteville, Tenn.,'a few evenings ago, caused an immense overflow of Morris Creek, and houses, furniture and live stock were swept a way,, and oyer SIOO,OOO worth of property was destroyed. The waterspout continued half an hour, until it fell congealed into very large lumps, knocking holes in the roofs of houses, and many animals were killed. Another waterspout occurred near Lynchburg, carrying away two distilleries, an immense amount of rails and many outhouses. The Postmaster-General has instructed Postmasters that on all mailable matter of the third class (which includes articles of merchandise and transient newspapers and magazines) postage must be prepaid at the rate of one cent for each ounce or fraction thereof. A destructive tornado passed through the central portion of Georgia and adjoining counties in South Carolina on the 20th. Residences and outhouses were demolished on many plantations, and several persons were killed and many others injured.

PERSONAL. The Grand Jury of Cook County, 111., recently found four criminal indictments against the proprietor of the Chicago Times, three of them for the libel of individuals and oue for the publication of an alleged obscene article. In the Beecher suit on the 15th John W. Harmon, Archibald Black and Jackson S. Schultz testified, and the deposition of J. 11. Drake, now in Europe, was read. The two former testified to the effect that the original charge against Mr. Beecher, as told them by Mr. Tilton, was that of improper proposals. The evidence of the two latter went to show that Mr. Moulton had denied that Mr. Beecher had violated the seventh commandment, and that he (Moulton) had asserted on more than one occasion that Mr. Beecher was a pure man. Several witnesses were examined on the 16th, who also testified tha( Mr. Moulton had denied to them the truth of the charges against the defendant. Mr. Beach said It was not necessary to Call so many witnesses, as Mr. Moulton did sot deny liaving used the alleged expressions, and Judge Neilson suggested that Mr. Shearman should limit his witnesses, which he -promised to do. Thos. M. Cook, journalist, of Detroit, was sworn; and testified that he had several interviews with Mrs. Woodhull and Mr. Tilton prior to the publication of the Woodliull story, aud that Mrs. W. had, in the presence of Mr. T„ urged him to write up the Beeelier scandal. On the cross-examination witness said "he had corresponded with Mr. Shearman relating to the trial, and had received to defray the expenses of two trips to the city made in connection with the suit, and that he had been engaged as a sensational writer for New York papers. Samuel P. Halliday testified that in October, 1872, Mrs. Moulton had stated to him ki answer to a question that she did not know why her name was mentioned in connection with the scandal. She said Mr. Beecher was her pastor and she believed in him.

The Judiciary Committee of the New York State Assembly have reported adversely on the bill to allow wives to testify against their husbands iu civil cases, and the report was adopted, thus killing the bill, which was intended, it is supposed, to allow Mrs. Tiltou j to testify in the Beecher suit. The old man under arrest at Florence, Arizona, admits that he is John Bender, but says he did not commit the Kansas murders with which he is charged, but that • his son and daughter, John and Kate, did. He declined to state the whereabouts of his family, but -euys they went from Kanats to Texas and there separated. The President on the ISth withdrew the : nomination of ex-Congressman David P. | Lowe, of Kansas, to be Commissioner of i Pensions, made the -day before, and nommated hits, for Chief-Justieeof Utah Territory, i in place of ex-Congressman Isaac C. Parker, i of Missouri, who had previously been nomiI nated for the position, but who was subse- ! quently' nominated United States District I Judge for the Western District of Arkansas, j Amongother nominations by the President q:i ■ the ISth was that of Hrnry B. Brown to be United States-fudge for the Eastern District (^.Michigan. Mr. continued his evidence ia the Beecher case oa the 17th, and said Mr. Tilton had stated to him, in ihe presence of George Bell, that the Woddhull scandal was entirely untrue, and that his wife was as pure an the light Mr. T. spoke of Beecher’s offena* £S being quite venial in its character. Mrs. ’ Lucy Vl r . Mitehell, a nurse, who had pfctn in attendance upon Mrs. Tilton on different occasions, testified that while in Mr. Til ton’s household Mr. Beecher was a frequent visitor, and she had never

seen uny improprieties between him and Mrs. T. She was Mr*. T.’s nurse at the time of her illness, when Mr. Tilton and Mr. Moulton t were together In the house ahont the time i the alleged letter of confession la supposed to have been written, and on the evening when the letter of retraction was furnished to Mr. Beeclior, and her evidence is to the effect that Mrs. Tilton was very weak and ill on these occasions. Mr. Tilton had always treated his wife well so far as witness had observed. The Rev. John L. Gay, of Bloomington, Ind., testified to the liberal doctrines on marriage and divorce promulgated in a lecture at the State University, in that place, by Mr. Tlftbn, in 1862. James Taylor, General Superintendent, and Charles Forrester, Clerk, of the New York Postoftice, were sworn on the 18th, and testified that Mrs. Wood hull’s Stein way Hall lecture in 1871 or 1872 was mailed in connection with copies of the Golden Age. Mr. Taylor says he talked with Mr. Tilton about it, ; and objected to the mailing of the speech in this manner, as it was not a supplement to the Golden Age , and subsequently re'ceived a note from ‘Mr. T., containingsloo, to defray the extra postage, after the l’ostolflcc authorities had decided the speech could not be mailed as a supplement. Mr. Halliday continued his testimony, and said Mr. Beecher had nothing to do with ! the decision by tlio chureh Deacons in-Oeto- ! ber, 1872, that it was not expedient to take any action on the scandal. The witness was cross-examined at some length by Mr. Fullerton, relative, chiefly, to the action of Plymouth Church, but nothing of great moment was elicited.

Bessie Turner began her evidence in the Beecher trial on the 19th. According to her statement Mr. Tilton was addicted to sullen moods, during which he would make himself very disagreeable to all in the house, especially his wife, whom he would scold for hours at a time, (witness) never saw anything improper take place between Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Tilton, and on his frequent visits to the house she (Mrs. T.) treated him the same as other gentlemen visitors. Bessie repeated the story of having awakened one night and found herself in Mr. Tilton’s bedroom alone with him, whither he had carried her while she was asleep, and she indignantly left the apartment at, once. She also repeated conversations which she alleged Mr. T. had had with her regarding affinities. On one occasion, when Mr. Tilton was .shaking his clenched list in his wife’s face, witness interfered in her behalf, and Mr. T. ordered her, with an oath, to leave the house, which she refused to do, and he struck her (witness) with his fist and knocked her down. Tibureio Vasques,, the notorious and desperate California bandit, was hung at San Jose on the 19th.

POLITICAL. The official returns of the recent New Hampshire State election are as follows: For Governor— Cheney (Rep.), 39,285; Roberts (Dent.), 39.168; White (Pro.), 754. Total vote, 79.202. Cheney over Roberts, 122. For Congressmen— First District—Whitehouse (Rep,), 18,169; Jones (Dem.). 11,064: scattering,. 326. Jones’ plurality, 355. Second District —Pike (Rep.), 12,9:16; Bell (Dem.), 43,083; scattering, 202. Bell’s plurality, 147. Third District—Blair (Rep.), 12,388; Kent (Dem.), 12,181; scattering, 163. Blair’s plurality, 207. The yeas and nays in the Senate on the resolution to postpone till December next the question of the admission of P. B. S. Pinchback as Senator from Louisiana were as follows: Yeas— Alcorn. Allison, Boutwell. Brnce, Burnside, Cameron (Pa.), Cameron (Wis.), Clayton, Conover, Cragiu, Dawes, Dorsey, Ferry (Mich.), Frelinghuysen. Hamilton, Hamlin, Harvey, Howe, Ingalls, Jones (Nev.l. McMillan, Mitchell, Morrill (Me.), Morrill (Vt.), Morton, Oglesby. Paddock. Patterson, Sargent, Sherman, Spencer. West, Widdom—33. Nays— Bayard, Bogy, Booth, C'aperton, Christiancy. Cockrell, Cooper, Davis, Eaton. Goldthwaite, Gordon, Hitchcock, Johnson, Johnston, Jones (Fla.), Kelly, Kernan, McCreery, McDonald, Maxev, Merrimon. Norwood, Randolph, Ransom, Saulsbury, Stephenson, Thurman, Wallace, White. Withers—3o. Messrs. Edmunds and Robertson did not respond when their names were called. Messrs. Anthony and Wright, who would have voted in the affirmative, were paired with Wadleigh and Dennis, who would have voted in the negative. Mr. Logan said he would withhold hie vote, as he did not-desire to vote against all his friends, hut he thought they Were making a great mistake. When the name of Ferry (Conn.) was called Mr. Eaton announced that his colleague was paired with Cameron (Pa.), but that Senator had already voted. Mr. Eaton supposed Cameron had voted by mistake. Mr. Cameron (Pa.) said he voted intentionally. He was paired with the Senator from Connecticut upon the question of admitting Pinchback, but not upon the question of postponing the resolution. Of the Governor’s Council in New Hampshire the Democrats have elected three and the Republicans two members. A New Orleans dispatch of the 21st says the Wheeler award had been received by Gov. Kellogg, but had not been officially published. It was understood, however, that the committee had decided that about eleven Conservative members not returned elected by the Returning Board arc entitled to seats, and that about six Conservatives whose election was claimed by the Conservative Committee are not entitled to seats. Under this award the House will be Democratic and the Senate Republican, with a small Republican majority on joint ballot. Gen. Butler has expressed the opinion that “the Civil-Rights bill does not give any right to a colored man to go into a drinking-saloon without the leave of the proprietor,” and that “ a barber-shop is a pri' ate business, in which the law does not interfere.” ’-sa

t. S. SENATE EAT It A SESSION. In the Senate, on tlie 15th, a resolution was agreed to requesting the President to transmit to the Senate. if not incompatible with the public interest, any information in his possession in regard to the proposed emigration to the Black Hills country held by the Sioux Indians under the treaty ot Feb. 14! 1869—whether said emigration is with the consent of the Indians holding said country, and if npt what measures will he taken in reference to the same.. ~Thfe Pinchback resolution was further debated. Mr.,Ferry.'ot Connecticut, opposing and Mr. West advocating the admission of applicant... .Executive session. In the Senate, on the 16th, the report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for 1574 was presented, and 1.450 additional copies were ordered printed.... Messrs. Edmunds and McDonald spoke against the resolution for the admission of Pirehhack. and Messrs. Howe and Logan iu its favor, when Mr. Morton closed the defcate bv advocating the admission of the applicant. A motion was then made to postpone further consideration of tie resolution until the'SCcond Monday in December next, which was agreed to—veas 33. nays 3th .. .A resolution was offered by Mr. Freliiighuystsa. objected to and laid over, •• that the Senate approves the action heretofore rhten bv the President of the United States in protecting Louisiana fsam domestic violence, and are of opinion that he should continue to recognize in that State the existing Government '.... An executive session was held. A resolution was submitted in the Senate on the 17th, by Mr. Boutwell. to authorize the special committee appointed to examine the several branches of the civil service, with a view to the reohgaauzation of the several departments thereof. to f sit and proceed with their duties dur-. ing the reees* of the Senate. The Hawaiian ; Keciproclty treaty was debated in executive ses- ; sion. Mr. MorritL of Vermont, opposing, and Messrs .Hamlin. Mitchell and Kelly, of Oregon, favoring .iEajratifie ation: Mr. Boutwell’s resolution for a special committee to examine the Several branches of the civil service, etc., was called up in the Senate on the 13th and the point of order was raised that' it was a matter looking to legislation and therefore oat of order.. ,-fA resolution was sub- 1

mlrted and laid over for an adjournment nine die on the 90th. ...The Hawaiian treaty was ratified in ekeouttve sees ion Vr 51 yeas t«42 nays. Among the amend mt'Ota made to the treaty 1* on# providing that during the pendency of the treaty the Hawaiian Gevemlhent shall not cede nor lease any port, bay or naval station to any foreign Government except that of th« United States, or grant any special- privilege to any foreign nation which is not now granted. In the Senate, on the ISHh, the resolution authorizing the Special OioibService Committee to sit during the recess wtri agreed t 0.... Several nominations by the President were confirmed in executive session, and the nomination of Don A. Pardee to be United States Judge for Louisiana was debated. The Senate, on the 20th, by a vote of 28 to 25, agreed to take up the Frelinghuysen resj olntion relating to the President’s course in_ Louisiana, and a substitute agreed upon in the Republican caucus was submitted, declaring ‘‘1581(110 80110)1 of the President in protecting the Government in Louisiana of which William P. Kellogg is the Executive and the people of the State against domestic violence, and enforcing the laws of the United, States, is approved.” Mr. Anthony announced that it was not the intention of the Senators on his side of the chamber to discuss the matter, and a motion to postpone the resolution till December next was lost —yeas 34, nays 30. Mr. Bayard spoke against the resolution, when a motion to strike out the word “ approved” was rejectedyeas 16, nays 23—and Messrs. Kernan and Eaton then followed in remarks against the resolution, ; when Mr. Johnson obtained the floor and yielded to a motion to adjourn, which was carried, an executive session being held, during which exi Congressman J. D. Ward was confirmed as United j States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinotsi— • •>