Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1875 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Thinning of the Carlist A- <W} . by Desertions. Collision on the C., b. & q. k. K in lowa—F <tal Resilts. The Chicago ‘'Times” Editor Iwnrissued for Contempt. Be Is Sttapetfty Liberated, Cider Bwds, by i Writ of Sipenodess. The U. S. Supreme Court Decide* Against Female Suffrage. ,•.• . . . The Beecher Trial—The Defendant on the Witness Stand. -ff --- Partial Abandonment of the Senatorial Excursion to llexico. • • Other Interesting News Item*.

FOREIGN. The French Government has denied to the Due de Montpensier a passport to Spain on the ground that in giving it the Government would establish a precedent by which exQueen Isabella might return to Spain, which was undesirable. Nearly 100,000 people met in Hyde Park. London, on the 29th ult. to express sympathy with and demand justice for the Tichborne Claimant The French Government has issued a decree prohibiting the importation of American potatoes. The object is stated to secure France against the introduction of the- Colorado beetle. A Paris paper of the 31st ult. announces the intended abdication of the Emperor of Brazil in favor of his oldest daughter, the Countess d’Eu. The paper adds that “ the Emperor, on his abdication, will make a tour of Europe, after which he will proceed to the United States, where he will make his home.” 7 . It was reported at Washington on the 81st ult that the yellow fever was epidemic at Havana. A special dispatch from Berlin of the Ist says a great financial crisis had occurred. There had been twenty-eight failures and several suicides in consequence of financial reverses. The Carlists were reported on the Ist to have entered the province of Santander with a view of penetrating Castile. The Uruguayan Chambers have passed a decree suspending payment of interest on the public debtand providing for its redemption by the issue of new paper at a forced price. The foreign representatives have protested, and the situation is considered serious. A dispatch from Berlin of the 2d reports that eighty ecclesiastics had been imprisoned in Posen alone, and that a Papal delegate who had been administering the Archbishopric of Posen since the incarceration of the incumbent had been arrested. The funeral of John Martin, the brother-in-law of the late John Mitchel, was attended by 20,000 persons. Schichken, the Russian diplomatic agent in Servia, has been appointed Minister of Russia to the United States. A Madrid dispatch of the 3d says that the Carlist Gen. Saballa had had an interview with Gen. Campos at Olot, under a flag of truce, with the view of seeking terms for the transfer of his allegiance from Don Carlos to King Alphonso. It was reported that ISO Carlist officers had already given in their adhesion to the latter and that the Carlist army had been largely thinned by desertions.

.-DOMESTIC. The directory of St Louis claims a population of 490,000 in that city on the Ist of last January. According to th; Atlanta (Ga.) correspondent of the Louisville Courier-Journal the recent tornado which passed over portions of Georgia and South Carolina was the most destructive ever experienced in the United States. The number killed in Georgia will not fall below 300 and the wounded will reach 1,500. The casualties in South Carolina are reported to be equally as great. The bursting of a kerosene lamp recently set on fire the house of a farmer named Colson, twenty-five miles from Wadena, Minn., and thefiames spread so rapidly that in a moment the night-clothes of the father, mother and five children were on fire. Colson finally dashed out of a window and rescued his family, but in a sad condition. Thev all dragged themselves to the nearest neighbor’s, a mile distant, barefooted and naked, leaving tracks of their progress on the snow ail the way. The father and two children have since died of their injuries, and it was thought the mother and remaining son cauld not long survive. The PoetoSce at Neuces, Tex., was robbed aad burned by a band of armed Mexicans during the recent raids from over the border. The Postmaster himself barely escaped with his life, the robbers believing that he had perished in the flames of the burning building. A man named Smith was murdered, and several Americans were taken prisoners and subjected to the most cruel treatment. One of .the leaders of the murderous gang was subsequently captured and taken to Corpus Christi, where he was aummarily tried by a people’s court and speedily sentenced to death and hanged.. A telegram was received in Washington on the 31st ult. from Gov. Coke, of Texas, announcing the recent raids made in that State by Mexican robbers, and calling upon the President for protection against the invasions. On the 31st ult Gen. Sheridan issued a general order in relation to the policy of theGovenunent in reference to the Black Hills region. The order covers a recent letter from the Department of the Interior to the SecreXaiy rs War, in whW it U stated that a com-

petent geologist wo . region, and if ft be sent to explore that metalsexist-in 1 ; •* eteund that the precious made to exti’ titles efforts would be' teed bV the aguish the Indian title guaranalready c ' teeaty 1868. Negotiations had ence of >**M»<®ced to this end, but the preser . trespassers in that section likely Aanger their success, and the Interior r therefore called upen the War Aeparftnent to remove interlopers and furnish * military escort for the geological party. The following is the statement of the condi- , tlon of the public debt April 1: Six per cent, b0nd551,149,135,900 Five per cent, bonds 574,2 2,750

Total coin bonds.. $1,728,388.650 Lawful money debt $14,678,000 Matured debt ...* 7.973,650 Legal-tenders..,,. 379.298,882 Certificate* of deposit .. 403,45,000 Fractional currency 44,343.209 Coin certificates 21,191.900 Interest 29,049,419 Total debt 52,265,968,711 Cash in Treasury—--Cohr;. $8'41105,52(1 Currency 5,182,412 Special deposits held for the redemption of certificates of deposit, as provided by law 43.045,000 Total in Treasury $132.332.»33 Debt less cash in Trea5ury52,183,684,778 Decrease during March 3,681.210 Bonds issued to the Pacific Railway Companies, interest pavable in lawful money, principal outstanding $&4.623.512 00 Interest accrued and not yet paid... 969,352 Interest paid by the United States. 26,264,102 Interest repaid by the transportation of mails, etc "5,243,748 Balance of interest paid by United States... L ...... 20,320,354 Several riots were reported in different mining localities in Pennsylvania on the Ist, and in seme instances the disturbances hud resulted in the loss of life. Gov. Hartranft was taking active measures to put a stop to the outbreaks.

Recent accounts state that the ice at Bay de Noquet, on the upper Michigan shore of Lake Michigan, was five feet and one inch thick, by actual measurement. A Washington dispatch of the 4th says the Mexican Government would soon have brought to its attention by tho Department of State the enormity of the offense recently committed by invading Mexicans on the Texas border, with such demands for reparation as will satisfy our national honor. Ex-State Senator Robert McKenna, of Tennessee, was recently tried for marrying the grand-daughter of his former wife and sentenced to the Penitentiary for five years. He has been pardoned by the Governor. The suit of . Morton and others vs. The State of Nebraska, involving the title to rich saline beds a mile from Lincoln, has been decided in favor of the State. About 12:30 on the morning of the 4th the Chicago express train collided with the Pacific express train on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, near Tyroneplowa. Both engines and several cars were demolished. H. L. Miller, conductor; C. M. Pickle, fireman, and W. A. Gardner, express messenger,were instantly killed, and several other train employes were injured, some fatally- One passenger was reported killed and several wounded. The accident is said to have been caused by the telegraph operator at Tyrone neglecting his instructions to hold the Chicago-bound train until the other train had passed that point

PERSONAL,. Gen. Spinner has tendered his resignation as United States Treasurer, to take effect July 1, and the resignation has been accepted by the President, and the position offered to John C. New, Cashier of the First National Bank of Indianapolis, Ind. Some days ago an article appeared in the Chicago Times characterizing a Grand Jury in the Criminal Court of Chicago, which had just found four indictments against Mr. Storey, the editor, for libel, as a disreputable, contemptible and dishonest body. Because of these strictures Judge Williams issued au order that Mr. Storey should show cause why he should not be punished for contempt. The hearing occurred on the 29th ult., and resulted in Mr. Storey being sentenced to ten days’ confinement in the County Jail. About eleven o’clock on the evening of that day a writ of supersedeas was issued by Judge McAllister, of the Supreme Court, under which Mr. Storey was held to bail in the sum of $2,500 to await the action of the Supreme Court

James Lick, the San Francisco millionaire, has filed in the Recorder's office of that city a revocation of the trust deed executed last July conveying his property to trustees for various benevolent purposes. He recites, in the revocation, that he wishes to provide for parties having natural claims on him; to amend the original instrument, and, with returning health, to give his personal attention to the execution of his designs. He confirms the acts heretofore performed by the trustees. Several witnesses testified in the Beecher suit on the 29th ult. as to the whereabouts of the defendant on the 2d, 3d and 4th of June, 1873. Mr. Turner and son testified that Mr. Beecher arrived at his farm at Peekskilion the afternoon of the 2d, early enough to take dinner. Two telegraph operators testified to the sending of a telegram on the morning of that day announcing Mr. Beecher’s intended visit to Peekskill. Another witness swore he saw Mr. B. there at that time. Thomas J. Tilney, lawyer, swore that he was married in Brooklyn on the evening of June 3by Mr. Beecher. Frederick A. Putnam testified that he saw Mr. Beecher at the depot of the New Haven Railroad on June 4, 1873. John Winslow, Stephen D. White and H. B. Claflin, members of the Plymouth Church Investigating Committee, testified as to the statements made by Mr. Tilton regarding the evidence against Mr. Beecher, Mr. Tracy’s connection with the case, and as to the settlement of the difficulty between Mr. Tilton and Mr. Bowea, most of which was corroboratory of former evidence adduced on the part of the defense, tk At St Louis on the 29th ult., in the case of A. C. Buell, charged with libeling ex-Senxtor Chandler, of Michigan, in the Detroit Free Pre**, a year ago, and which ease was appealed by the Government from the United States District to the United States Circuit Court, March 9, Judge DiHon, of the latter court, rendered a decision affirming that of the lower court, and Mr. Buell was discharged.

H. B. Claftin continued his evidence on the 30th uIL, his testimony relating chiefly to the tripartite agreement, which witness stated Mr. Ulton fully agreed to, and both Mr. Tilton and Mr. Moulton agreed to the award of the arbitration ($7,000 by Bowen to Tilton) and to the condition that all the papers relating to the scandal should be burned. At the cross-examinatibn witness said the arbitrators never considered the truth or untruth of the atones in the papers relating to the scandal nor did they discus them. Charlo* Storrs gave similar testimony

to tfc'at of Mr. Claflin relating to the tripartite agreement. He also stated that in January, 1871, Mr. Tilton had tqld Lim that Mrs. T. had accused Mr.l Beecher of improper proposals. After the publication of the Woodhull scandal Mr. T. had said to witness that it contained a great many lies about Mrs. T. and Mr. Beecher, and that nothing criminal had occurred. Two other examined relative to Mr. Beecher’s visit to Peekskill on the afternobn of June 2,1873. The trustees of the Lick fund in San Francisco have held a meeting to discuss Mr. Lick’s revocation of his will, and express a determination not to resign their trust Mr. Storrs concluded his evidence on the 31st ult., and he was followed by Mrs. Mary E. Perkins, sister of Mr. Beecher, who testified that she spent the whole of the winter of 1871-72 at the defendant’s house, during the absence of Mrs. Beecher, and was in the habit of receiving Mr. Beecher’s guests, and during that time did not see or hear of Mrs. Tilton being at the house. Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Moore swore that they would not believe Kate Cary (who -was once in theiZ employ) under oath. On the cross-examina-tion they said they formed their conclusions from stories they heard while Kate was in their employ, James Redpath testified that Mrs. Tilton showed him the “True Story” in January, 1873. Witness was shown and identified a copy of the “ True Story” shown him by Mr. T. ' Mr. Redpath was cross-examined on the Ist, and stated that in an interview he had with Mr. Beecher the latter did not deny that he had given Mr. Tilton cause of.offense. When asked if, in ail his conversations with witness, Mr. Beecher had denied the commission of the crime with which he is charged, witness answered that he did not ask him (Beecher) about it. Mr. Beecher was the next witness called to the stand. He said he had conscientious scruples against swearing on the Bible, and was sworn by the uplifted hand. He then began his evidence, in answer to questions by his counsel, giving a detailed history of his life and his acquaintance with

Messrs. Bowen, Tilton and Moulton down to " about the year 1870. His evidence for the day closed with a statement of an interview had by witness and his wife with Mrs. Tilton and Mrs. Morse, at Mrs. Tilton’s residence, and at her (Mrs. T.’s) request, on which occasion Mrs. Tilton and Mrs. Morse spoke of their domestic difficulties in Mr. Tilton’s family, and the result of which was that he (witness) coincided with the views of Mrs. Beecher that a separation between Mr. and Mrs. Tilton would be the wisest course for them to pursue. John C. New, who is to succeed Mr. Spinner as Treasurer of the United States, is said to be a hard-money man. George Reynolds, a Mormon, on trial at Salt- Lake City for polygamy, was found guilty on the Ist by a jury composed of both Mormons and non-Mormons. A motion to set aside the verdict for the reason that the defendant had never been arraigned and asked to plead, and never had the indictment' read to him, was granted, after which the defense waived a new trial, with a view if taking the case to the Supreme Cburt. Tn the case of George Q. Cannon, on the same charge, the defendant plead the statute of limitation, a demurrer to which was overruled, and the defendant was discharged.

In his testimony on the 2d Mr. Beecher emphatically denied any and all charges of either criminal conduct or intent on his part in his relations with Mrs. Tilton at any time. He reiterated his statements made before the Church Investigating Committee. He flatly contradicted the evidence of Messrs. Tilton and Moulton with regard to the confessions of criminal conduct they alleged he had made. He asserted that the letter of contrition which he signed was written by Mr. Moulton when he (witness) was laboring under great excitement caused by his feeling that perhaps he might have been unintentionally led into doing Mr. Tilton an injustice by listening and subscribing to the reports in circulation against him (Tilton) at the time of his difficulties with Mr. Bowen. He further said that Mr. Moulton suggested to him (witness) that Mrs. Tilton had allowed her affections to be alienated from her husband and to center upon witness; and it was this assertion on the part of Mr. Moulton, together with the fact that Mr. M. emphatically pronounced false many of the scandalous reports afloat against Mr. Tilton’s moral character, that led him (witness) to express himself in a contrite manner for having unintentionally added to Mr. Tilton's sorrow at that time. Witness denied reading or having read to him on that occasion the memorandum of his remarks made by Mr. Moulton, and which he , signed at Mr. M.’s request as being the better way of showing to Mr. Tilton that he (witness) entertained no unfriendly feelings ■»r feelings of enmity toward him.

Owing to the illness of Henry M. Cleveland, formerly manager of the Christian Union, it was necessary that his testimony in the Beecff.er trial should be taken at his residence, and his evidence was begun on the 2d. It is reported that he testified that Mr. Beecher was in the office .of the Union on the 2d of June, 1873, between eleven and twelve o’clock of that day. That is the date on which Mrs. Moulton, in her testimony, alleges Mr. Beecher was at her house for three or four hours, and talked of suicide, and when she advised him to confess to Plymouth Church. According to a New Orleans dispatch of the 4th the Senatorial excursion to Mexico had broken up, several of the party having decided at New Orleans to go no further, while a few would proceed to Vera Cruz by the regular mail steamer and as private travelers. Advices from Washington, fear of the yellow fever, and the illness of Mrs. Morton are among the causes alleged or a change of programme.

POLITICAL. The United States Supreme Court has decided. in the case of Mrs. Minor, of Missouri, who claimed the right to vote under the Fourteenth Amendment, that the t Constitution of the United States does not confer the right of suffrage upon anyone, and that the Constitutions of the several States which commit that trust to men alone are not necessarily void, The court is unanimous in this decision, which was delivered by the Chief-Justice. The California Democratic State Convention is to be held at San Francisco on the 29th of June. The Rhode Island Prohibition State Convention met at Providence on the 29th ult and renominated the present Governor and Lieutenant-Governor. The remainder of the ticket was made up from the Republican State ticket The Ohio Legislature adjourned tine die on the SOth ult . - —lt is estimated that the cartage, bill paid by the commerce of New York amounts to the enormous sum of $12,000,000 per annum.