Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1875 — MEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

MEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOHBIttN. A London dispatch of the 4th says Moody and Sankey, the Chicago evangelists, were listened to by over 200,000 persons every week. The Moderator of the British Presbyterian Synod, at its session in London on the 4th, expressed his cordial sympathy with them in their religions work. The Berlin North German Gaiette of the 4th denies the truth of the statement In the American papers that a company had been organized to facilitate the return to .Germany of emigrants to the United States. The Paris correspondent of the London TVmas, in a dispatch published on the sth, says that uneasiness prevailed in well-informed circles in France, and that a war between that power and Germany was deemed not improbable. A London dispatch of the sth says that over 3,000 persons had been converted in that city —the result of the labors of Messrs. Moody and Sankey. The importation into Finland or Russian territory of American potatoes has been forbidden. A Bombay dispatch of the 6th announces the appearance of the cholera in the city of Baroda. The Prince Bishop of Breslau has been removed and expelled from Germany for viola tion of the Ecclesiastical laws. The Prussian police have received of late alarming notices of plots against Bismarck and Minister Falk. A special detective staff has been formed for their protection., _ The American Methodist Church at Quickarg, in China, was recently destroyed by a Chinese mob. The Eagle line steamer Schiller, which sailed from New York on th'e 28th ult. for Hamburg, was totally wrecked off the Scilly Islands, about thirty miles from Land’s End, England, on the night of the 7th. The Schiller ran on a ledge of sunken rocks during the prevalence of a dense fog. Three hundred and seventy-nihe persons were known to have been on board, and of these about SOO are supposed to be lost Several prominent citizens of Chicago, Milwaukee, and other portions of the West were on board, and are thought to have perished. The ecclesiastical policy of the Government was approved on the Sth by the Italian Chamber of Deputies—2l9 to 149. In the Prussian Diet on the Btll the bill for the suppression of religious orders was read a second time without amendment and the bill giving the Old Catholics a share of the Catholic Church property passed on third reading—2o2 to 75. Th'e provincial authorities of Germany have been instructed to treat the collection of money for priests who have been subjected to legal penalties as a punishable offense. The’ Belgium Chambers on the Sth adopted a resolution appcoring the recent corresponddeuce of the Government with Germany.

BOMKSTIC. A St. Louis dispatch of the sth reports Indian depredations in Western Kansas, and further raids were apprehended. Government troops had been ordered for the protection of settlers. A Washington dispatch of the 6th announces the payment to Minister Cushing, iu Madrid, by the* Spanish Government, of the balance due on the Virginias indemnity, thus anticipating the payment several months. Dispatches from Pottsville and Wilkesbarre, Pa., on the 6th state..that outrages by striking miners were on the increase, and there? was no prospect of the strike ending for ibme time. The managers of some of the mines were about to abandon the works by withdrawing the pumps and thus allowing the mines to fill with water. The Comptroller of the Currency has issued notices calling upon the National Banks throughout the country to make a report to him of their condition at the close of business on the Ist inst. A xational convention of bankers has been called to assemble at Saratoga Springs, July 20," for business and social purposes. A man named William E. Sturtevant, who some months asro murdered, for the pur pose cf robbery, three persons—two old men, brothers, his great-uncles, and a woman who was keeping house for them—was hanged at Plymouth, Mass., on the 7th. A daring attempt to rob an express car on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne <£ Chicago Railroad was mfiSe early on the morning of the 7th. A recently-discharged railroad conductor by the name of Binkley boarded the eastern-bound express train on that road at Lima, Ohio, and effected an entrance into the Adams Express car by sawing out the panels of»the door. He wore a mask, and on entering the ear fired two shots at the expressmessenger, Geo. 11. Price, wounding him slightly. Price succeeded in securing his pistol in time to shoot the.would-be murderer and robber through the head, killing him instantly. - Another cyclone visited Middle Georgia on the Ist, causing the killing of fifty persons, the wounding of many more, the destruction of a great quantity of live stock and numerous dwelling*. This is the fifth tornado that has visited Shat aection since the 20th of March. The ravages of the cyclone were confined mainly to Harris, Talbot, Henry and Calhoun Counties.

A Washington dispatch of the 9th confirms the statements of the Chicago papers that it is probable the work so far as completed on the new Custom-House building in the latter city will have to be entirely overhauled and the building reconstructed from the foundation, thus entailing an additional expense of at least $1,000,000 and delaying the completion of the structure nt least a year. The Postmaster-General has issued an order carrying into effect, so far as this country is concerned, the treaty for the formation of a general postal union concluded at Berne Oct 8 last The new rates of postage are to be levied on and after the Ist of July next on correspondence to all the treating States except France, which does not participate in the benefits of the treaty till Jan. 1,1876. It is reported that an attdfapt was made by miners op the night of the 7th to burn the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad bridge above Locust Gap. The captive Cheyenne, Arapahoe and Kiowa Indians from the Cheyenne Agency arrived at Fort Leavenworth on the Bth, and were placed in the guard-house, where they will remain until their trial takes place. PEWAOMAL. In the Beecher trial on the morning of the 3d Mrs. Tilton, who wm present, sent a writ-'

ten communication to Judge Neilson, which she requested him to read aloud before the opentag ©T —the —proceedings Thir court? After rending the nflUe the Judg* said the matter would be consid«red. He refused at the time to intimate what ’the note contained, but it was understood to refer to the question of Mrs. Tilton being allowed to testify. Several additional witnesses ware sworn who testified to the effect that Mr. Tilton was not in the company of Mrs. Woodhull in the Communistic procession. Albert Martin, Super-' intendent of the Mission Sunday-school of Dr." Storrs’ church, testified that he was at Mrs. Ovington’s last summer on the day that Bessie Turner, went before the Church Committee and that she (Bessie) was in the back parlor with Gen. Tracy for over* two hours; witness could hear them conversing together but could not understand what was said; he (witness) after tea took Miss Turner around to Mr. Storrs’ in order that she might testify before the committee. Franklin Woodruff was recalled and testified to two interviews with Mr. Tracy, at which he (witness) told Mr. Tracy Mr. Tilton’s charge against Mr. Beecher was for the greater crime alleged, and that Mr. Beecher had advanced SSOO for the r< lief pf Mr. Tilton’s family. Mis. Tilton's letter to Judge Neilson is made public. In it she protests her innocence and claims to have been for five years past the victim of cruel and unfortunate circumstances. She says she would like io tell her whole sad story truthfully and to acknowledge the frequent falsehoods wrung from her through compulsion. She assumes the entire responsibility of tills request, claiming that it was made without the knowledge of friend or counsel of either side. Judge Neilson returned this letter to Mrs. Tilton with a note saying that he must decline to introduce it in the trial proceedings.

Further rebuttal evidence was given on the 4th, Mr. Joseph H. Richards being among the witnesses examined. He testified that he was at Mr. Storrs’ house last summer on a summons to appear before the Investigating Committee, and that Mr. Tracy said to him that he appeared as Mr. Beecher’s counsel, and that if he (witness) testified before the committee he would be asked if his sister (Mrs. T.) had ever confessed to him the alleged against the defendant. Witness replied that he would not answer that question, and Mr. Tracy told him his refusal to do so would be construed as an affirmative apawer. He (witness) then refused to go before the committee. The Republican State Convention of Maine is to be held on the 15th of June. A Logansport (Ind.) telegram of the 4th states that Hon. D. D. Pratt, ex-L'nited States Senator, had accepted the position of Commissioner of Internal Revenue, tendered him by President Grant the day before. Stephen Pearl Andrews testified on the sth that distinguished personages; sugh- as William Orton, Whitelaw Reid, Benjamin F. Butler and others, were in the habit of visiting Mrs. Woodhull’s residence while witness was stopping there in the summer of 1870. Witness often saw Mr. Tilton and Mrs. It. together, but never observed any undue familiarity between them; she sometimes called him Theodore. Witness said lie was iu one sense the author of the scandal article, although Mrs. W. composed the original, witness preparing it for publication; so far as witness knew Mr. Tilton was entirely ignorant of the preparation of the article, and it was a surprise to him when if appeared. Mrs. Martha" A. Bradshaw contradicted a portion of Bessie Turner’s testimony, and Mr. John Wood, a printer, testified with regard to the publication of the Woodhull scandal that it was put in type the last week in October Henry C. Bowen was cabled and testified that he knew the contents Tilton’s note which he took to Mr. Beecher (and which witness says was delivered at the residence of Mr. Freeland), but that Mr. Beecher did not ask him if he did; Mr. Beecher did not say anything to witness about discharging Mr. Tilton from the IWeueiafen t, but witness told him (Mr. Beecher) that he had "canceled Mr. T.’s appointment _as editor. Witness said there Was no connection between the tripartite agreement and the payment to Mr. Tilton of the $7,000; witness was always willing to arbitrate with Mr. T., and did not kjiow that Mr. Beechet had anything to do with such arbitration >4he arbitration was concluded on the 3d of Apm, 1872, and the tripartite covenant was executed on the 7th. Gov. Bagley, of Michigan, has appointed Julia 8. Sutherland Commissioner of Deeds for Michigan at Salt Lake City. In his cross-examination on the 6th MrBowen adhered to his evidence given on the direct examination. John M. Longhi, an employe at Delmonieo’s, testified that there was no restaurant on the upper floor at the time Woodleigh swore hesaw Mrs. Woodhull and Xilton lunching there. In his recent tour through some of the Southern States Vice-President Wilson was entertained by "several prominent ex-Coqfed-erates, amcmg them ex-Vice-President John C. Breckinridge, at whose house in Lexington, Ky., he made a brief visit. President Grant has signed the commission of J. M. G. Parker to be Postmaster Of New Orleans. Owing k> the absence of Messrs. Beach and Shearman, of the counsel, the Beecher trial was adjourned on the 7th to the 10th. Ex-State Treasurer Rankin, of lowa, on trial at Des Moines on the charge of embezzlement. has been acquitted.. * The trial of Sam Bowles, editor of the Springfield (Mass.) jßcptMican, for libeling -Railroad-President Phelps, of Massachusetts, by styling him “robber’’ Phelps, has been, concluded and SIOO damages awarded. The claim was for $200,000. John Sheridan, the father of Lieut.-Gen. Sheridan, died at his residence iu Somerset, Ohio, on the 6th.

Vice-President Wilson was at Nashville, Tenn., on the 7th, and a brilliant entertainment was given in the evening, in his honor, at the residence of Gen. E. W. Cole, at which many of the most distinguished men of the State were present. The Grand J ury of the District of Columbia have refused to find an indictnieut against Mr. Dana, of the New York San, for alleged libel of ex-Gov. Shepherd. The motion for a new trial in the case <rf Early rt. Storey, of the Chicago Taaes, has been denied, the plaintiff agreeing to accept $15,080 in lieu of the $25,000 awarded by the jury. The defense took an appeal. In another libel suit against Mr. Storey for stigmatizing a Chicago lawyer as a “ shyster'’ the jury have returned a verdict of SSOO. The. plaintiff asked for $50,000. John Bender, the Kansas murderer, recently in custody at Florence, Arizona, has again escaped, and is supposed to have reached Mexico. : -——- -<7 —. ■ ■ ■ -