Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1875 — THE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS.

Ruaors of the Probability of a Great European War. Defeat of the Woman-Suffrage Bill in the British Parliament. lail-ltate fruit Kseonrei ii the Pesteffiee Beputait at VatkiaftM. President Grant Does Not Apprehend War With Mexico. Destructive Tornadoes In Illinois and Arkansas. Escape of two Thonsand Indians from the Cheyenne Agency. The Recent Election In Connecticut— Other Election Return*. Other Into renting News Items.

FOREIGN. Wilton, McLay & Co., metal merchant*, London, England, have suspended, owing, It is stated, to difficulties arising from their American contracts for rails. Their liabilities are estimated at $1,000,000. A Rome correspondent of the Paris Journal de* Debat* writes to that paper that the Pope will take up his residence in the United States if it should become impossible for him to remain in Rome, and it was with a view to such possible emergency that Archbishop McCloskey wag elevated to the Cardinalate. On the 7th |he public prosecutors at Liege, Brussels, commenced an investigation into the Duchesne plot for the assassination of Prince Bismarck. The bill to enable unmarried women to vote for members of Parliament was refused a second reading in the British House of Com mons, on the 7th, by a vote of 152 to 187. The Premier voted with the minority. Berlin dispatches of the Bth say that Herr Sigl, editor of the ultramontane paper Fafsrand, recently sentenced in contumaciam for publishing an article offensive to Bismarck, had been arrested by the Austrian authorities at Salzburg on the application of the German Government, and sent to Berlin. The Bishop of Breslau had refused to resign his see, and legal proceedings had been instituted to enforce compliance with the decree of the court The Government had announced its intention to prosecute the German subscribers to the Carlist fund, on the ground that they were fomenting a rebellion with a friendly power. Alarming rumors prevailed in Berlin, Vienna, Paris and Rome on the Bth, which a Berlin Ministerial journal of that date says portended war against Germany. The Bpanisb Government has decided to send 15,000 more troops to Cuba. All of the professors of the Madrid University who have protested against the recent reactiouary educational laws have been arrested and expatriated. The French Government has sent instructions to its Consuls to summon for the last time French subjects abroad who are liable to military service to have their names registered at the Consulates. A Madrid dispatch of the 9th says that Gen. Elio, a Carli6t General of distinction, had given in his adhesion to King Alphonso. Paul Boynton, the American,' started from Dover, England, on the morning of the 10th to cross to France in his life-preserving dress, and arrived at Boulogne in the evening. He was obliged to leave the water about five miles from France on account of the darkness and the boisterous weather. A Madrid dispatch of the lOthf says the Pres, idencyof the Madrid University has been conferred upon Le Fuente, the former editor of the Carlist newspaper. There was much dissatisfaction at the appointment. An Estella report is to the effect that the Carlists . had shot eight Alphonsist prisoners, on the 7th, in reprisal for the Carlists recently assassinated near Tafallaque.

DOMESTIC. President Grant is reported as having stated on the sth, in relation to the recent reported outrages of bands of Mexicans in Texas, that he could see no reason for apprehension of war between the two countries, but of course no one could tell what might be in the future. Nothing, however, would be done by this Government tp provoke such a result. Petitions from mothers, including hundreds of prominent ladies, have been presented to the Governor and Council of Massachusetts, asking that the sentence of Pomeroy, the boy-fiend, be executed, as a safeguard to children. A Yankton (D. T.) dispatch of the 4th announces the arrival there of two men named Owens, direct from the Black Hills, bringing with them several nuggets and particles of gold which they took out with an ax. Becoming satisfied that gold existed in paying quantities they left four of their number and returned for provisions and tools. A recent telegram from Key West, Fla., says there had been four cases of yellow fever there, but the disease had entirely disappeared. A twelve-year-old boy, son of Jacob Welker, of St. Paris, Ohio, was fatally burned on the sth by the explosion of a coal-oil can while he was attempting to hurry up a tire by pouring oil upon it Unusually cold weather, With a light fall of snowy vtas reported throughout the central portion of California on the sth. The Court of Claims at Washington has decided, in a cast recently brought before it, that the power vested in the President to pardon crimes does not authorise him to restore forfeited or confiscated property. Recent Washington dispatches report the discovery of numerous frauds upon the Postoffice Department in connection with mailroute bids. It seems Hut some of the clerks of the department have been in the habit of informing professional contractors of the lowest bids time for receiving proposals had expired, and then, by means of

counterfeits of official stamps, of subslitutiag later and lower bids. It is said the department has lost nothing by these transactions, tie substituted bids being in all cases lower than those regularly made. A New Tori dispatch of the 6th announces a general reduction In passenger rates from the East to Western poiats. Further strikes in the Pennsylvania mining regions were reported on the 7th, and others were expected. So many disturbances had occurred in some sections that the troops had been called on to assist in putting down any further outbreaks that might take place. A lot of giant powder stored in a frame building in San Francisco exploded on the 7th, blowing up s number of adjoining buildings and causing the complete destruction of a bonded warehouse in the vicinity, the walls of which were crushed in and the ruins set on fire. Several lives are reported lost. The lock-out of iron-workers at Pittsburgh, Pa., which had continued since last fall, virtually ended on the 7th, in favor of the workingmen. Two mills resumed operations on that day, and others were expected to soon follow the example. A destructive tornado passed over Edinburgh, 111., on the Bth. One church was crushed to atoms and five dwellings were blown down. Some twenty young ladies and gentlemen and children were in the church at the time the wind struck it, and ail of them were more or less injured, many of them quite seriously. On the same evening a similar visitation was experienced near Little Rock, Ark., by which trees were uprooted and seven houses destroyed. A Mrs. Jones was killed and her two daughters seriously injured. At an early hour on the morning of the 9th a band of strikers attacked a company of militia near Hazleton, Pa., and a few shots were fired and slight wounds inflicted. A vote by ballot was taken on the 9th ia the several mines of the Delaware, Lackawana & Western Railroad Company of Scranton, to decide the question of a strike, and resulted in favor of work by a vote of 1,512 to 319. All of the property in New- York known to have been in the possession of Wm. M. Tweed at the time of his exposure, and which he passed into the hands of other parties, has been attached in the interest of the new $6,000,000 suit brought against him. Patrick O’Shea was hanged at St. Louis on the 9th for the murder of his wife in that city a little over a year ago. An official dispatch from the Cheyenne Agency to Gen. Pope, received at Leavenworth on the 10th, gives the particulars of the revolt at that agency on April 6. While the guards were attempting to iron one of the Stone Calf Indians, the prisoner broke away. The guards fired and hit him. This pro, yoked several shots from the camp of the hostile Cheyennes, causing great consternation. The hostile Indians, men, women and children, fled to tire Sand Hills. The friendly Indians stood true. Capt. Rafferty, in command of sixty cavalrymen, was sent in pursuit of the fugitives. He was reinforced by Gen. Neill with three companies. Owing to the depth of the sand the troops had to dismount and charge on foot. The Indians held their position in the Hills until night, and then retreated under cover of darkness. The troops were repulsed three times, with a loss of six mortally and ten slightly wounded. Gen. Pope at once started all the available troops from Hayes, Dodge, and North Fork cantonments to intercept the fugitive Indians, mostly unarmed.

PERSONAL. The President has appointed-E. C. Walker, of Michigan, to be Inspector of Indian Affairs. ' . Mr. Beecher’s direct examination was continued on the sth. He reiterated his emphatic denial of being the author of the letter of contrition, or of its expressions as reported by Mr. Moulton. He also denied the several asseverations of both Messrs. Tilton nd MouiJ ton that he had ever confessed even a minor offense in connection with Mrs. Tilton. In regard to the celebrated interview sworn to by Mr. Tilton as having occurred between the witness and Mr. and Mrs. Tilton, at which the paternity of one of Mr. Tilton’s children was in question, Mr. Beecher denied that any such interview ever occurred, and pronouucedthe story a " monstrous and absolute falsehood.” The trial of John D. Lee and others at Beaver, Utah, charged with participation in the Mountain Meadows massacre, has been postponed. The case of George Q. Cannon, for polygamy, has been appealed by the prosecution to the Territorial Supreme Court, and bonds of $5,000 given for his appearanee. Gen. Sheridan was at New Orleans on the sth, probably (says a telegram of that date) on account of the Mexico-Texas border troubles. Gov. Tilden, of New York, has pardoned James W. Ingersoll, sentenced in 1573 to live years’ imprisonment for forgery in the second degree. He was tried in connection with the Tweed ease. In his testimony on the 6th and 7tli Mr. Beecher continued his denialsof the evidence of Messrs. Tilton and Moulton, and gave his explanation of the letters which had passed between himself and Mrs. Tilton, denying that they had any hidden meaning which would warrant the construction put upon them by the prosecution, and claiming that they related chiefly to Mrs. Tilton’s domestic troubles and the defendant’s sympathy for her as her pastor and friend. The President, on the 7th, suspended IV. Ringgold, Postmaster at New Orleans, under the Tenure-of-Office act, and appointed John M. G- Parker in his place. A new suit under a recent act of the New York Legislature has been begun against William M. Tweed, to recover back $6,195,t57 which was paid out under the Board of Audit of 1870. - . P. T. Barnum, the great showman, was elected Mayor of Bridgeport on the sth. John Robinson, the well-known circus man, was defeated on the same day for the same office k> Cincinnati. ■ Congressman Wheeler arrived in Washington on the Bth, ert route for New Orleans, to aid in carrying out the terms of the Louisiana compromise. Count Marefaschi arrived in New York on the 7th from Europe, and soon thereafter fulfilled the mission intrusted to him by the Holy See of announcing officially to Archbishop McClbskey that the Holy Father had been pleased to confer on him the title and elevate him to the rank of a Cardinal of the Roman Church. In his direct examination on the Sth Mr Beecher continued his explicit denials of all the statements of the prosecution involving any criminality on his part in connection with the scandal. With regard to Mrs. Moulton, he says he was a frequent visitor at her

house, where he always, met with a cordial and ladyJlko reception from Mrs. Moulton. He asserted that he was net at her house on the 2d or 8d of Junej 1872, not| did he ever make a confession to Mrs. Moulton of criminal conduct such as charged in her testimony. Witness testified that at one of the interviews between him and Mr. Moulton, at. the house of the latter, iu January, 1871, when Mr. Tilton was threatening to publish a card relating to the scandal, Mrs. Moulton said to him (witness) that she did not believe the stories they were telling about him, and that she believed he was a good man. To this remark witness responded that he was a good man, she might be 6ure of that. The officers in charge of the approaching reunion in Chicago of the Army of the Republic have unanimously agreed to a resolution extending an invitation to “ ail the surviving soldiers and sailors of the late war throughout the country who regard the flag of the United States as the emblem of undividedand indivisible nationality” to meat with them on,that occasion. The reunion occurs on the 12th, 13th, 14th itnd 15th of May. Owing to the illness of Lawyer Beach, of the prosecution, the Beecher trial was adjourned on the morning of the 9th to the 12th. The President has appointed Richard Gibbs, of New York, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Peru. All attempts in the New York Legislature to pass an act enabling Mrs. Tilton to testify have failed, and further efforts will not be made. Dan Bryant, the-great minstrel performer, died at New York on the 10th, of pneumonia. Hon. Ben. Wade has written a letter declining to be a candidate for the Governorship of Ohio. He gives three reasons: First —His voice is so used up that he is not able to make a speech. Second —He has recorded an oath that he will never take the stump for, or in favor of, an office for which he is a cahdidate, and this oath alone would bar him. Third—He cannot well afford to take the position.

POLITICAL. . The State election in Connecticut occurred on the sth. The returns received up to the morning of the 6th indicated that Chas. R. Ingersoll (Dem.) is re-elected Governor by about 7,000 majority. The Congressmen elected are: First District, Geo. M. Landers, Democrat; Second, James Phelps, Democrat; Third, H. H. Starkweather, Republican; Fourth, Wm. H. Barnum, Democrat. State Legislature Democratic. The election in Cincinnati on the sth resulted in the success of the Democratic municipal ticket by majorities ranging from 1,000 to 6,000, Johnson, for Mayor, receiving the heaviest vote. At the election in Wisconsin on the 6th, Edward G. Ryan was chosen Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, without opposition. The Rhode Island State election was held on the 7th. There were three candidates for Governor and Lieutenant-Governor, and the vote was so divided between them that no choice resulted. The remainder of the Republican ticket for State officers is elected by between 11,000 and 12,000. The candidates for Governor were Henry Lippitt, regular Republican; Rowland Hazard, independent Republican and Prohibitionist, and Charles R Cutler, Democrat. The choice for Governor will depend upon the complexion of the Assembly, and will lie between Hazard and Lippitt. The municipal election in St. Louis on the 6th resulted in the election of the Democratic candidate (Barrett) for Mayor by a plurality of about 700. The balance of the Democratic ticket was also elected, the majorities ranging from 657 to 5,798. The vote in Connecticut at the recent election was as follows: For Governor—lngersoll (Deni.), 53,755; Greene (Rep.), 44,301; Smith (Pro.), 2,809; scattering, 114. Total, 101,009. Ingersoll’s plurality, 9,484; majority, 6,661. For Congressmen—Democratic candidates, 51,093; ‘Republican, 47,311; Prohibition, 1,909. Total, 100,313. The vote for Governor in Rhode Island was as follows: Hazard (Ind. Rep.), 5,717; Lippitt (Reg. Rep.), 5,341; Cutler (Dem.), 5,169.