Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1875 — Page 2

RENSSELAER UNION. ■5 • HORACE F_ JAMES, Prapfetor. RENSSELAER, - INDIANA.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

VORBICN. There arrived ifi New York on the 9th the crew of a shipwrecked vessel who had been thrown upon a small island off the coast of Cuba, and who report that while there they found the decomposed remains of four men, who had built huts and wereevidently a part of the crew of an iron ship which appeared sunk near the shore. They had probably died of starvation. Russia has by special decree, issued Nov. 6, annexed that portion of Khokand lying on the right bank of the Syr Daria, from the Russian frontier to the River JJareen. A London dispatch of the 11th says heavy storms had prevailed in France and England during the week preceding, and vast tracts of country were threatened by the rising floods. A Constantinople dispatch of the 11th says the Sublime Porte had ordered the districts of Trebigno, Biletz and Piva to be detached from Heraegovlna and organized as a separate department, to be placed under an Arminian Greek Governor. The large cotton-mills at Glasgow, Scotland, belonging to Robertson <fc Co. and Young & Co. were totally burned on the 11th. Loss estimated at $1,500,000, and 1,200 persons were thrown out of employment. A terrible explosion of fire-damp occurred in a Belgian colliery on the 10th. Up to the 12th forty-two dead bodies had been recovered, and it was feared a large number were still in the pit and probably killed. A London dispatch of the 13th says the cholera in India had interfered to some extent with the programme of the Prince of Wales. According to a dispatch of the 13th' a tidal wave ten feet high swept up Farret River, Somersetshire, England, on the morning of that day, breaking the lock-gates at Bridgewater, sinking one vessel and more or less injuring twenty others. Numerous disastrous floods were reported throughout England and Ireland on the 14th. Cardinal McCloskey left Queenstown for New York on the 14th. A telegram from Cattaro, published in London on the 15th, says that eight Turkish battalions under Server Pasha had been surrounded near Gatschko by 3,000 Herzegovinians, and at last accounts a desperate battle was being fought, The ship Calcutta, from Quebec for Liverpool, was recently wrecked at Grosse Isle. Twenty-two of the crew and a lady passenger were drowned. The Captain, three men and a boy were saved.

DOMESTIC. The steamship City of Waco, which arrived at Galveston, Tex., on the Bth from New York, loaded with oil, anchored outside the harbor and was discovered to be on lire at one o’clock on the morning of the 9th. There were forty-eight persons on board the vessel, eight of whom were cabin and twelve steerage passengers. There was a . heavy wind at the time of the fire, and the vessel was soon burned to the water’s edge and sank. Great uncertainty existed on the 9th as tn the fate of those on board, some reports being to the effect that they had taken to the boats and drifted ent into the gulf, a heavy gale prevailing at the time; but a dispatch from Galveston on the morning of the 10th says the impression was gaining ground that they had all perished on the ill-fated vessel. A severe earthquake-shock was felt in portions of Missouri and Kansas early on the morning of tHe 10th. At Independence, Mo., several brick buildings sustained considerable injury, and dishes were thrown from shelves, the citizens being aroused from sound slumber, thinking their houses were falling. The shock felt at Topeka and elsewhere in Kansas was equally severe. Another survivor of the crew of the steamer Pacific was picked up at three o’clock on the morning of the Bth, thirty miles inside the Straits of Fuca. He was floating on a raft from which he says Capt Howell had been washed off and drowned. The name of the rescued man is Neal O’Haley. He says the Pacific was struck by a vessel under full sail. Two boats got away from the wreck. Five dead bodies had also been recovered up to the Bth. Forged tickets purporting to have been issued by the Illinois Central Railroad at Chicago, and to be good for a passage from Chicago to Denver, by the way of St. Louis, were offered to a ticket-agent in New York city, on the 10th, for sale at a reduced price. The Chicago papers of the 11 th state that an arrangemerjt for the pooling of all earnings had been entered into by the Lake Shore, the Michigan Central and the Fort Wayne Railroads, and all the other trunk lines to the West had consented to it, and would act in concert with the new combination in the matter of rates. A singular accident occurred at the Detroit (Mich.) Pullman car works on the afternoon of the 10th. A large air-tube, six feet square, extends from the bailment to the roof to carry up the dust of the planingmachine to the cupola. While twelve or fifteen men were sweeping dust from the cupola down the tube to be carried away, the fine particles took fire from smoldering embers near the foot of the flue and exploded with a burst of flame, which burned several of the men fearfully, some of them dangerThe report of the Paymaster General of the Army shows that there has been disbursed to the army during the last year $ 12,272,102.38, and to the Military Academy $202,236.04. The number of desertions during the year was 2,521, against 4,606 the previous year. The re-enlistments aggregated i,956, as against 699 the previous year. . In hi»annual report the Commissioner of Internal Revenue says the British public, numbering less by one-fourth than our people, paid under their excise laws during the year ending March 21,1875, toes measured in gold to the amount of $183,962,756, against $110,545,154 paid in currency by the people of v’this country during the fiscal year ended June 30,1875. The Commissioner of the General LandOffice in his report recommends that all the timber lands owned by the Government be opened to purchasers at l a minimum valuation, and thus be placed under private guardianship. He also recommends the adoption of the plan of public sales heretofore practiced, but now Abandoned.- He thinks that the Pre-emption laws should be repealed, and the homestead system be made the only method of acquir'

lag title to agricultural lands. The number of acres disposed of during the last year was 7,070,371, being 2,400,001 less than the previous year. Of this amount 2,356,057 acres were homestead entries and 3,107,643 were certified to railroads; 745,001 acres were disposed of at cash sales. The cash receipts during the year were $1,784,001. The 12th inst. was observed as a day of fasting and prayer by the clergymen of Brooklyn, in accordance with the request of Mr. Moody. The vessel which collided with the steamer Pacific proves to have been the bark Orpheus, which was afterward wrecked on the rocks and went to pieces, her crew escaping. No more survivors of those on board the Pacific at the time of the disaster had been found up to the 12th. A donkey-boat belonging to the burned steamer Waco has been found out in the gulf, bottom up; it had not been scorched. No signs of any of those on board the vessel at the time of its destruction had been found up to the 12th, and all hope that any had survived the disaster was abandoned. A New York dispatch of the 12th says the Waco had on board 300 cases of petroleum, which she had no right to carry, being without the necessary certificate, and her owners would be prosecuted. According to the annual report of the Commissioner of Education there has been an increase of 164,000 school children during the year. Thirty-five out of thirty-seven States report the number of teachers; thirty-seven States and eleven Territories report the publicschool income, which shows an increase of 11,282,000, but only thirty-five States and nine Territories can show their school expenditures. There are enrolled in the public schools 8,000,000 pupils. The average dally attendance is 4,500,000; the estimated population between six and sixteen years of age is 10,536,674; number of teachers employed, 241,300; total income public schools (States and Territories), $82,158,905; total expenditures) $74,974,988; value of school buildings, $165,' 758,447. A Mr. Nicholas Thomas, of Chicago, has perfected a new motor similar in a general way to the so-called Keely invention, but differing in application and effect. The Chicago Tribune of the 13th says: “The Chicago motor like the other derives its power from water and air, and is conceived on the seemingly contradictory principle of multiplying force without the aid of force to begin withFrom the practical tests made* by Mr. Thomas, the inventor, it has been shown that an extraordinary apparent pressure can be produced by his apparatus, though it has not yet been demonstrated that motive power can be obtained in proportion to the amount of this pressure." On account of the state of the markets the Amoskeag Mills, of Manchester, N. H., have given notice of a cut-down of from 5 to 15 per cent, on the wages of operatives from Dec. 1.

PERSONAL. The following-named gentlemen compose the committee appointed by the Congregational Association of Ministers to investigate the charges against Mr. Beecher: Rev. Wm. Taylor, of the Broadway Tabernacle, New York; Rev. Dr. William Ives Budington, of Profs. Parsons and Martin, of the New York Theological Seminary, and Rev. Charles 11. Everest, of the Church’of the Puntans, Brooklyn. Plymouth Church has referred to a committee the charge made by Mrs. Moulton against Mr. Beecher. Henry R. Mann, for fifteen years Treasurer of Saratoga County, N. Y., has proven a defaulter in the sum of nearly or quite $150,000. A paper-collar manufactory in which his son was interested has failed, and is supposed to have absorbed a portion of the missing funds. Further failures at the East were announced on the 10th. Among them were the firm of James Wickham & Son, commission merchants of New York city, and F. Geedowsky, an extensive furniture-manufacturer of Boston. • Col. Joyce, ex-Bupervisor of Internal Revenue at St. Louis, convicted of conspiracy to defraud the Government revenues, asked leave on the 12th to withdraw his motion for a new trial and demanded that sentence be passed in his case. C. J. Moeller, an exGauger of Milwaukee, was found guilty on the 12th of making false returns to the Government. President Grant has appointed Hiram Leffingwell to be United States Marshal for the District of Missouri, and T. C. Woodward, of lowa, to be Examiner-in-Chief of the Patent Office. . Mrs. Moulton on the 13th addressed a letter to Lawyer Shearman, as Clerk of Plymouth Church, asking the church to join with her in calling a Council of Churches, before which Plymouth Church should give its reasons for the action taken in dropping her name from its roll of membership, and she should state her reasons for absenting herself from the services of the church, lu case of refusal on the part of the church to comply with this request within four weeks, she gives notice that shqkhall herself call for such a council. At Jefferson City, Mo., on the 13th, Col. Joyce was sentenced to imprisonment in the Penitentiary for a term of three and a half years and to pay a fine of S3OO. Before sentence was passed he addressed the court in his own behalf, pleading for a mitigation of sentence and declaring himself the victim of self-convicted perjurers and thieves. It is said Joyce’s motive in demanding a sentence was to avoid being called upon to answer a number of indictments pending against him at St. Louis. Another reason given is that he was prompted by a desire to protect others from the effect of any testimony be might otherwise have been called upon to o-ic» A New York dispatch the 12th says Judge Moore, of Brooklyn, had decided to grant an order for a commission to take the testimony of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Richards in the Loader perjury case. The body of Capt. Wolfe, the Galveston pilot who went out on board the City of Waco, has been found near where the steamer went down. His remains bear several marks which appear to be burns.

POLITICAL. The complete vote of Massachusetts at the recent election gives Rice (Rep.), for Governor, 83,523; Gaston (Dem.), 78,246; Baker (Pro.), 8,965; Adams, 1,774; Phillips, 301. It was thought on the Sth that Bigelow, the Democratic candidate for Secretary of State of New York, would have about 18,000 ma. jority. The New York State Senate will contain 21 Republicans and 11 Democrats; House, 68 Republicans and 60 Democrats. The New Hampshire Prohibitionists held a State Convention at Concord on the 10th and nominated A. J. Kendall for Governor. Thomas A. Doyle (Rep.) has beep re-elected Mayor of Providence, R. I„ for the tenth time.

The new Minnesota Legislature will be composed as follows: Senste—Republicans, 24;Opposition, 17. -House—Republicans, 65; Opposition, 41. ,t. A Milwaukee telegram of the 11th places Ludington’s (Rep.) majority for Governor of Wisconsin at 900. The balance of the Democratic State ticket is elected by majorities ranging from,lso to 300 except Kuehn for Treasurer, who would have from 2,500 to 3,000. . According to the latest publication of what is said to be the official returns of the Pennsylvania election Hartranft’s plurality over Pershing is 11,945. The Prchibition vote is nearly 10,000. The official canvass of the vote in Mary, land gives Carroll, Democratic candidate for Governor, 12,821 majority. Total vote of the State, 158,127. The Democrats have a majority of twelve in the State ftgnate and thirty in the House.

The Disaster on the Pacific Coast.

San Francisco, Nov. 9 A dispatch from Port Townsend this evening says: Henry F. Jelley, supposed to be the sole survivor of the Pacific, brought here yesterday by the ship Messenger in a wretched condition, having been on a raft thirty-six hours before being picked up, says the Pacific collided with some other vessel, whose lights he saw, but in his interviews with Gilkey, Captain of the Messenger, lasting twelve hours, he made no mention of the lights of the vessel, and some think him laboring under hallucination as to that. Experienced navigators here think it more likely that she struck a sunken rock. Jelley makes a statement to the following effect: Took cabin passage on the Pacific from Victoria, leaving about a quarter past nine on the morning of Thursday, the 4th inst. There were about 200 people on board. Steamed all day against a southeaster, the crew constantly pumping water into the boats to trim tlie ship. The boats abaft the paddleboxes had no oars in them. The others had about eight or nine. In the evening, while in bed, heard a crash and felt a shock as if we had struck a rock. Heard something fall as if rocks had fallen on the starboard bow. The bell was struck to stop, back and go ahead. Went on deck and heard voices say: “ It’sall right; we have struck a vessel.” Saw several lights at a distance but do not think they were colored; but paid little attention. Returned to the cabin and noticed the ship took a heavy list to port. Went on deck to the pilot-house and,, heard some one say: “She is making water very fast.” The Captain was coming out of his room. Asked him if there were any blue-lights or guns. He said the blue lights were in the pilot-house. Got them and burned five. Noticed the engines still working, but there was no one at the wheel. Went to the starboard side forward of the paddle-box where a number of men were trying to get the long-boat out, but could not. Went to the port-boat forward and helped five or six women into it. 'fried to get the boat off, but could not move it. There were about twenty women in it. Heard the boats abaft the paddles had got off; but did not see them. Think it was about an hour after the steamer struck when she listed so much to port that the boat was in the water. I was in that boat. Cut loose from the davits, when the boat filled and turned oyer. Got on her bottom and helped several up with me. Immediately after the steiquer seemed to break in two fore and aft.! The sn»oke-stack fell and struck our boat, and -the steamer sunk. Think about all the Women-were in our boat, and fear they were all drowned when the boat upset. This Was about terf in the evening. The night was not dark nor the sea very rough; but a fresh breeze sprung up afterward. Left the bottom of the boat, and, with another man,.Climbed on top of the pilot-house, floating near. The next morning I got some life-preservers, floating near, and with their ropes lashed myself and companion to the house. Saw three rafts; the first had one man on it, the next had three men and a woman; could not make out the other for the distance, except that there were people on it. Think we were thirty or forty miles south of Cape Flattery when the vessel sunk. Passed the light on Tattoosh Island between four and five in the evening. Myself and companion were on the pilot-house all of Friday until about four p. m., when he died, and I cut him loose. The sea was running very high all day, the waves washing over us. Soon after he died I sighted a vessel. -Called, and heard the people on the other rafts calling, but the vessel did not come near. Friday night we had but little wind, but in the morning the wind and rose. Was then within a mile of the Shore of Vancouver Island. Sighted two vessels’ on the American shore, which passed on. About ten o’clock Saturday forenoon the Messenger picked me up. Jelley stated, informally, that there was no terror or contusion on "the part of the passengers, and that if the boats could have been launched and properlv manned, ' the sea being comparatively smooth, all would have been saved. »

The statement of Neal O’Haley, Quartermaster of the Pacific, rescued by the revenue-cutter Oliver Wolcott on the morning of the 7th, is to the effect that there were over 200 people on board the lost steamer. He says: I saw a large vessel unfler sail, which they said struck the steamer; saw her green light distinctly. The passengers crowded into the boats against the commands of the officers. I, with the chiefengineer, got a port boat forward into the water and got fifteen women and six meh in her. She was capsized by the rolling of the ship. I saw none of them afterward. Lsupported myself Dy u float ing sky-light about fifteen minutes, and then got on a portion of the hurricane-deck with some eight others. On looking for the steamer I found she had disappeared, leaving a floating inass of human beings. The screams Tor help were fearful, but soon ceased, and -we were alone on the. raft. There were the Captain, second mate! second cook, and four passengers, including a young lady. At one o'clock the next morning, the sth, there bleg a gale from the southeast, die sea making a clean break over the raft. We lasiied ourselves. About 4 a. m. the sea washed overboard the Captain, second mate, the lady and another passenger. About nine a.'m. die second cook died. It cleared up about four p. m. I saw land fifteen miles distant, and a piece of the wreck with two or more on it. About five p. m. anodierdied. On the morning of the 6th another died, leaving me alone! 1 About four p. ni. a large, empty box floated near me. Got it on the raft for shelter and slept soundly that night several hours. tynthe morning of the.7th saw land on both sides and was surrounded with float-kelp, which; made the water smooth, -it continued calm all day and night. At three a. m. I was rescued bv the cutter. " i

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The Indiana Baptist Convention met at Evansville on the 2d. There were during the, month of October 247 prisoners iu the Indianapolis jail. The assessment of property for taxation in Attica is $144,000 less this year than last. A colored barber named Carter cut his throat with "a razor at Centerville the other day Dr. Brooks, of St. Louis, has declined the recent tender of the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis. John Leiinan was recently fatffily injured ctCrapp’s factory, iu Logansport, by a pile of lumber fulling on him. He died on the Ist. At Mount Vernon, on the 2d,* Noah Bishop, a colored man, killed his divorced wife with an ax. The woman was about to marry again. The tumbling-shaft of a threshing-ma-chine recently’ took in Thomas Graham, in Warren County. He had his arm torn off at the shoulder. A. E. Faber wheeled M. Kaskel from Bristol to Elkhart in a wheelbarrow, the other day, because the people of Ohio elected Hayes Governor. .The Vincennes 6’«b says Hiram Cox, Trustee of Vigo Township, Knox County, has disappeared, and with him \he township funds amounting to $20,000. While Joseph Rogers, a switchman, was coupling cars at Logansport the other night, his head was caiight between projecting timbers and his skull fractured. R. Morton, at Lafayette, has recovered a judgment for $15,000 against the Pittsburgh. Cincinnati & St. Louid Railroad for failure to deliver grain according to contract.

John H. Halliday, proprietor of the Indianapolis Evening Newt, was married on the morning of the 4th to Miss E. M. Rieman, daughter of James N. Rieman, a wealthy Baltimore banker. A jury in a probate case at Union City, after being out eighteen hours, brought in a verdict of guilty, but on polling the jury one member admitted .that he had been starved out. They were sent out again. Rotten-stone, entirely free from grit, and admirably suited for polishing silver and other metals, has been discovered near Stineville, Clay County. A preacher is the fortunate owner of the farm on which it is found. The Indianapolis Journal says it is proposed to have a general exhibition in every school-house in the State on the 11th of December to celebrate the fifty-ninth anniversary of the admission of the State to the Union. Judge Gresham, of the United States District Court.-iffUndiaifapoTTs; on decided that the law compelling distillers aittl other liquor-dealers lo produce their books and papers in court at the instance of the District-Attorney is constitutional. The coal-miners in the vicinity of Evansville have ..struck for four cents a bushel for mining. The present rate is three and a half cents. The operators refused to yield, claiming that they would open the mines within a week with new hands. During a heavy thunder-storm on the 3d a valuable barn belonging to Henry Brooks, near Griflin station, was struck by lightning and totally destroyed by fire Two fine horses perished in the flames and a third was badly injured. Loss $3,000. A mild form of epizootic prevails in the vicinity of Madison, which the Courier attributes to the consumption of ergotized hay. It says-lhe-excessively rainy weather of the past summer has produced » large amount of erzot in the hay, especial ly that made from red-top.

A mock d was recently opened near Knox which contained several skeletons of human beings who were once of great stature. It is estimated that they must have been some seven or eight feet tall while living. Among the other interesting things discovered were several copper arrow-heads. The Board of Supervisors of Madison County have called a special election to be held onlhe 23d of November to vote upon the question of authorizing a loan of SIOO,000 to rebuild the Court-House. The vote coptemplates the levy of a tax of five mills yearly for five years. The Court-House of this county was burned about a month ago. The following were the postal c.ianges in Indiana during the week ending Oct. 30, 1875: Discontinued—Mount Liberty, Brown County; Rock Island, Perry County. Postmasters appointed—Clouser’s Mills, Montgomery County, Nathan Lew is; Elizaville, Boone County v William Byers/Templeton, Benton County, O. H. Hayes; Upland, Grant County, Jacol Bugher; Wild Cat, Carroll County, John W. Penn. , The will of Dr James 8. Athon, a former State official who recently died at Indianapolis, gives th. Mrs. Athon onethird Of his property for life, and the balance equally to his three children. After the death of Mrs. Athon the third given her will go equally to the children. He made a special bequest of SSOO to Mrs. Athon s. daughter. It is estimated that the estate w ill amount to from $150,000 to $200,000, and is mostly in real estate. The Attorney-Genera! is called upon to answer a rather knotty question in jurisprudence. The village of Lebanon, desiring to put on city airs by. taking tage of the law on the subject, has declared' that henceforth it wifTassume the functions of an incorporated city. By a majority vote of the citizens the town ceased tn be, » City Council was elected and or.dinances were passed for the city government. According to the law, an ordinance cannot go into effect until two weeks after its passage. The question arises, bow is is the city governed in the interim, or is it. governed at all ?

THE FORTT-FOURTH CONGRESS.

■ENATE. Democrats (in Roman'. 28; Repnbllcaao (in small caf»), 41; Independents (iu Z/u/ic), 3; vacancy. 1: nut yet chosen, 1. Alabama. ITjai *rp. S'nator. Term erp. Senator. Branch K. Bruce. 1877. Geo Goldthwaite. | Missouri. 1879. Geo. E. Spencer. ;1879. Lewis V. Bogy. Arkansas. 1881. FruncixM.Cockrell. 1877. POWELL CLAYTON. NEBRASKA. 187.1. Stephen W. Dob- 1877. P. W. Hitchcock. ; BET. 1881. ALU’N 8. PADDOCK. CALIFORNIA. NEVADA. 1879. Aaron A.Sakgent. 1879. John P. Jones. 1881. Neuton Booth.. 4881. Wm. Sharon. CONNECTICUT. NEW HAMPSHIRE. 1879. OrHib 8. Ferry. 1877. Aahon H. Cragin. 1881. William W. Eaton. 1879. B. Wadleigii. . DELAWARE. I NEW JERSEY. 1877. Eli Saulsbury. 1877. F. T. Fhelinohut--1881. 'lhoiiiHs F. Bayard.l sen. rnoHtDA. 1881. T. F. Randolph. 1879. Simeon B.Conover new yobk. 1881. Chas. W. Jolies. 1879. Roscoe Conkling. Georgia. 1881. Francis Kernan. 1877. T. M. Norwood. north Carolina. 187 J. John B. Gordon. 1877. M. W. Ransom. . Illinois. 1879. A. S. Merrimon. 1877 John A. Logan. ohio. 1879. Rich’d J. Oglesby. 1879. John Sherman. INDIANA. 11881. Allen G. Thurman. 1879. Oliver P.Morton.| Oregon. e 1881. Jos. E. McDonald. 1877. James K. Kelley. iowa. |1879. John H. Mitchell. 1877. Geo. G. Wright. Pennsylvania. 1871 Wm. B. Allison. 1879. Simon Cameron. KANSAS. 1881. Wm. A. Wallace. 1877. Jas. M. Harvey. rhode island. 1879. J. J. Ingalls. 1877. 11. B. Anthony. KENTUCKY. 1881. A. E. Burnside. 1877. J, W. Stevenson. south Carolina. 1879. T. C. McCreery. 1877. T. J. Robebtson. Louisiana. 1879. John J. Patterson. 1877. J. Rodman West. tesnehske. 1879 1877. ’Henry Cooper. Maine. 1881. David McK. Kee. 1877. Lot M. Mobbill. Texas. 1881. H. Hamlin. 1877. If. C. Hamilton. Maryland. 1881. Samuel B. Maxey. 1879. Geo.’R. Dennis. Vermont. 1881. Wm. P. Whyte. 1879. J. S. Morrill. MASSACHUSETTS. 1881. GEO. F. EDMUNDS. 1877. Geo. S. Boutwell. Virginia. 1881. H. L. Dawes. 1877. John W. Johnston. Michigan. 1881. R. E. Withers. 1877. T. W. Ferry. west Virginia. . 1881. I. P. Chrietiancy. 1877. Henry G. Davis. Minnesota. 1881. Allen Caperton. 1877. Wm. W'indom. Wisconsin. 1881. S. J. R. McMillan. 1877. T. O. Howe. Mississippi. 1881. Angus Camebon. 1877. James L, Alcorn. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Democrats (in Roman), 181; Republicans (in smELI caps), 97; Independent Republicans (in Italic*}, 3; Independent Reformer* (in ROMAN CAPS), 4; Liberal Republicans (in ITALIC CAPS). 6; to be elected. 1. Total. 292. Names of members of the Forty-third Congress are marked ~ by a ».

ALABAMA. At Larue. William H. Forney. | Burwell B. Lewie. 1. Jeremiah Haralson. !4. ♦Charles Hays. 2. Jere N. W’illiaJms. ;5. ’John H. Caldwell. 3. Paul Bradford. |6. Goldsmith W. Hewitt. ARKANSAS. 1. Lucien C. Gause. 3. Wm. W. Wilshire. 2. William F. Slenions. *4 ’Thomas M. Gunter. 1. W. A. Piper. ,8. *J. K. Luttrell. 2. ’Horace F. Page. |4. P. D. Wiggiuton CONNECTICUT. U. George M. Landers. i 3. ’A.H.Starkweather. 2. James Phelps. )4. Wm. H. Barnum. DELAWARE. James Williams. FLORIDA. 1. ’William J. Purman. 2. ’Josiah T. Walls. GEORGIA. 1. Julian Hartridge. 6. ’James 11. Blount. 2. William E. Smith. 7. William 11. Felton. 3. ’Philip Cook. 8. ’Alex. H. Stephens 4. Henry 11. Harris. 9. Garett McMillan. 5. Milton A. Candler. ILLINOIS. 1. Barney G. Caulfield. 11. Scott Wike. 2. Carter H. Harrison. 12. Wm. M. Springer. 3. ’Chas. B. Farwell. 13. A. E. STEVENSON. 4. S. A. Hurlbut. 14. Joseph G. Cannon. 5. *ll. C. Burchard. 15. ’.John R. Eden; 6. Thos. J. Henderson. 16. Wm. A. J. Sparks. 7. ALEX CAMPBELL. 17. ’Win. R. Morrison. 8... »G. L. Foht. William-Hatrtsell. 9. R. 11. Whiting. 19. llm, B. Anderson. 10. JOHN C. BAGBY. I

— — INDIANA. —— u— i 1. Benoni S. Fuller. 8. ’Morton C. Hunteb. 2. James D. Williams. 9. ’Thomas J. Cason. 3. Michael C. Kerr. 10. Wm. 8. Haymond. 4. Jeptha D. New. 11. James L. Evans. 5. ’William S. Holman. 12. Allen H. Hamilton. 6. MiltonS. Robinson. 13. John H. Baker. 7. Frauklin Landers. lOWA. 1. ’Geo. W. McCrary. i 6. Ezekiel 8. Sampson. 2. John Q. Tufts. 7. ’John A. Kasson. 3. L. L. Ainsworth. 8. ’James W. McDill. 4. ’Henry O. Pratt. 9. Addison Oliver. 5. ’James Wilson. ■tv KANSAS. 1. *Wm.R. Phillips. 13. William R. Brown 2. John R. Goodin. KENTUCKY. 1. A. R. Boon.- 6. Thomas L. Jones. 2. ’John Y. Brown. 7. J. C. S. Blackburn. 3. ’Charles W. Milliken. 8. ’Milton J. Durham. 4. J. Proctor Knott. 9. John D. White. 5. Edward Y. Parsons. 10. John B. Clarke. LOUISIANA. 1. E. Randall L. Gibson. 4. William M. Levy. 2. John Ellis. 5. Beuj. E. Spencer. 3. ’Chester B. Darrell 6. Charles E. Nash. MAINE. 1. ’John H. Burleigh. 14. Harris M. Plaisted. 2. ’William P. Frye. 5. ’Eugene Hale. 3. ’James G. Blaine. |

MARYLAND. ' V, 1. Philip F. Thomas. 14. *Thomas Swann. 2. Charles B. Roberts. 5. Eli J. Henkle. 3. *Willium J. O'Brien.| 6. William Walsh. MASSACHUSETTS. 1. W. W. Chapo. 7. John K. Tarbox. 2. *Benj W. Harris. 8. William W. Warren. 3. *Benry L. Pierce. 9. ♦George F. Hoar. 4. Rufus S. Frost. 10. Jnliu» H. Seelye. 5. NATH. P. BANKS. 11. Chester W. Chapin. 6. Chas, P. Thompson. „ ♦ MICHIGAN. 1. Alpheus S. Williams. 6. George H. Durand. 2. ♦Henry Waldron. 7. Mlmar D. (Mnger. 3. ♦Gborgb Willard. 8. ♦Nath. B. Bradley. 4. Allen Potter. 9. *Jay A. Hubbell. 5. *Wm. B. Williams. MINNESOTA. 1. *Mahk 11. Dunnell,! 3. William 8 Kino. 2. ♦Horace B. Strait. I 1. *L. Q. C. Lamar. I 4. O. R. Singleton. 2. G. W ii.EY Welles. 5. Chas. E. Hooker. 3. H. D. Money. | 6. Roderick Seal. Missouri. I 1. Edward C. Kehr. 8. Beni. J. Franklin. 2. *Erastns Wells. 9. David Rea. 3. ♦William H. Stone. 10. R. A. Deßblt. 4. ♦Robert A. Hatcher. 11. ».lohnß. Clark. Jr, 5. *Richurd P. Bland. >l2. ♦John M. Glover. 6. Charles 11. Morgan. 113. Aylett H. Buckner. 7. John F. Phillips. | r

NEBRASKA. •Lorenzo Crounsb. NEVADA. William Woodburn. NEW HAMPSHIRE. 1. Frank Jones. I 3. H. W. Blair. 3. Bell. I NEW JERSEY. 1. C. H. Sinnickson. 5. Augustus W. Cutler. 2. ♦Sam. A. Dobbins. 6. Frederick 11. Teese: 3. Miles Ross. 7, A. A.’Hardenburgh. 4. ’Robert Hamilton. NEW YORK. 1. Henry B. Metcalfe. 18. Andrew Williams. —-ft ♦Jno. w;'Schumaker.- 19. »Wft A. Wheeler. 3. •A. B. Chittenden. 20. *Hy. A. Hathorn. 4. ARCH. M. BLISS. 21. Samuel F. Milleb. 5. Edwin R. Meade. 22. Geo. A. Bagley. 6. ♦Samuel 8. Cox. 23. Scott Lord. 7. Smith Ely, Jr. 24. Wm. H Baker. 8. Elijah Ward. 25. E. W. Leavenworth 9. ’Fernando Wood. 26. *C. D. MacDougall. 10. Abram S. Hewitt. 27. E. G Latham. 11. BEN.I. A. WILLIS. 28. *Thos. C. Platt. 12. N. Holmes Odell. 29. Chas. C. B. Walker. 13. J.O. WHITEHOUSE. 30. John M. Davy. I'4. George M. Beebe. 31. »Gbo. G. Hoskins. 15. John H. Bagley. Jr. (32. »Lyman K. Bass. 16. Chas. 11. Adams. 33. Nelson I. Nobton 17. Martin I. Townsend. | \ p , NORTH CAROLINA. 1. Jesse J. Yeates. | 5. Alfred M. Scales. 2. John A. Hyman. I 6. »Thomas S. Ashe. 3. •Alfred M. Waddell. 7 ♦Win. M. Robbins 4. Joseph J. Davis. | 8. Robert B. Vance. OHIO. ’ % 1. *Milton Sayler. 11. John L. Vance. 2. *«K B. BANNING. 12. Ansel T. Walling, 3. John S. Savage. 13.’Milton J. Southard. 4. John A. McMahon. 'lt. John P. Cowan. 5. Americus V. Rice. 'ls. N. H. Van Vorhes. 6. Frank 11. Ilnrd. : 16. ♦Lorenzo Danfokd. 7. *Lawrence T. Neal. 117. *L. D. Woodworth. 8. ’Wm. Lawrence. IS. ♦James Monroe. 9. Early F. Poppleton. 19. *Jas. A. Garfield. 10. ’Charles Foster. 20. Henry B. ftdyne. OREGON. Lafayette Lane. RHODE ISLAND. 1. ♦Benjamin T. Eames. (2. Latimer W. Ballou. SOUTH CAROLINA. 1. ’Joseph H. Rainey. 4. *Alex. 6. Wallace. 2. E.W. M. MACKEY. <? : 5. Robert Smalls. 3. Solomon L. Hoge. ( u 1.

PENNSytVAXtA 1. Chat. Freeman. 115. Joseph Powell. 2. ’Charles O'Neill. ■ |l6. ♦Sobieski Rohs. 8. ♦Sussuel J. Randall. 17. John Reilly. 4. Wm. D. Kelley. 18. Wm. 8. Stenger. 5. John Robbins. 'l9. Levi Maish. 6. ’Wash. Townsend. 20. Lottie A. Macbey. 7. Alan Wood, Jr. |2l. Jacob Turney.. 8. ’Heister Clymer. |22. Jatneß H. Hopkins,. 9. ’A. Herr Smith. 23. Alex. G ; Cochran. 10. William Mntchler. '24. John W. Wallace.. 11. Frank D. Collins. 25. George A. Jenks. 12. W. W. Ketcham. 26. James Sheakley. 13. James B. Reilly. 127. Albert G. Egbert. 14. John B. Packer. j . | .. TENNEHRKE. * 1. William McFarland. 6. John F. House. 2. *J.M. Thohnbubgh. 7. *W. C. Whitliorne. 3. George G. Dtbrell. 8. ’John D. C. Atkins.. 4 * 9. Wm. P, Caldwell. 5. Mohn M. Bright. 10. H. Casey Voting. TEXAS. 1. JohnH. Regan. 4. *Roger Q. Mills., 2. David B. Culbertson. 5. ♦John Hancock. 3. J. W. Thiockmorton. 6. Gustave Schleicher: VERMONT. 1. Charles H. Joyce. i 3. ’George W. Hendee 2. Dudley C. Derdeoa. | VIRGINIA. 1. Beverly B. Douglas. 6. John R. Tucker. 2. John Goode. Jr. 7. *JohnT. Harris. 3. Gilbert C. Walker. 8. ♦Eppa Hunton. 4. •Wm.H. H. Stowell. 9. William Terry. 5. George C. Cabell. WEST VIRGINIA. 1. Benjamin Wilson. |B. •Frank Hereford. 2. Chas. G. Faulkner. | WISCONSIN. L *Chas. G. Williams. 5. Satnnel D. Burchard. 2. Lucian B. Caswell. 6. Alanson M. Kimball. 3. Henry S. Magoon. 7. *Jerbmiah M. Rusk. 4. William P. Lynde. 8. George W. Cate.

A Hero Criminal.

A French correspondent writes: The old saying “ that truth is stranger than fiction” has rarely received a more striking illustration than in a case which has just been brought before one of the French tribunals. Thirteen years ago a soldier naued Jean Lastier was sentenced to five years’ penal service and ten years’ surveillance by the police for having insulted one of his superior officers and stolen a few shirts. He was sent to Africa to undergo his sentence, and his conduct was so exemplary that he was employed as book-keeper to the prison. At the expiration of his sentence he was ordered by the police to reside in a small town in the south, but as everybody knew he was a returned convict it was with the utmost difficulty that he could obtain any kind of . employment. The Commissaire of Police, knowing how well he had behaved while in prison, interested himself on his behalf and induced a tradesman of the town to employ him as messenger. He fulfilled his duties so zealously that the tradesman promoted him to the post of cashier, and in course of time the returned convict married his daughter and entered into partnership. Three months after his marriage the war broke out, and Lastier, anxious to rehabilitate himself completely, volunteered his services and joined a regiment of the line. He was taken prisoner at Gravelotte, but, managing to escape, he rejoined his corps in time to take part in the battle around Orleans. From thence he passed into the Army of the East under Bourbaki, and received no less than eight wounds. At the end of the campaign he had become a sub-Lieutenant, and had received The military medal, which had been given him on the battle-field. He was almost a hero in his regiment, and when he returned to his father-in-law’s house nearly all the town turned out to meet him. Soon afterward his father-in-law died, and Lastier, with his wife and two children, determined to reside in Paris. His term of surveillance had not expired, but tlie local police had ceased to treat the srfbLieutenant as a returned convict, and placed no obstacle in his way. He had lived quietly in Paris for nearly a year, when a few weeks ago he was accompanying a friend to the Orleans Railway station. The latter had a dog with him, and this dog was attacked in the street by another. The respective proprietors, while attempting to separate them, came to high words, and at last to blows. Jean Lastier, who nafftrally took his friend’s part, was, with the other two, arrested by the police, and was of course compelled to show his “ papers,” etc. His antecedents being known, the police, finding that he had left the place of residence assigned to him before the expiration of the ten years, had no choice but to proceed against him, and being brought before the Correctional Tribunal of the Seine he has just been condemned to two months’ imprisonment for breach of regulations. This is unfortunately the law, but it is not justice, and your readers will, I am sure, be glad to learn that an Englishman who happens to be acquainted with the facts of tlie case has brought the matter before Marshal MacMahon, and has reason to hope that the poor fellow will receive the free pardon to which he is, so fully entitled.

A statement has just been drawn up respecting the losses occasioned by the floods in the south of France. It appears that 1,645 communes, situated in twelve departments, suffered more or less. In the Haute Garonne, the losses exceed 42,000,000 francs; in Lot-et-Garonne tfley are 14,846,800 francs; in Tarn-et-Garonne, 12,437,803 francs; in the Ariege, 5,240,000 francs; in the Haute Pyrenees, 9,290,000 francs; in the Gironde, 4,974,006 francs; in the Gers, 3,310,000 francs. The total loss is -100,003,714 francs, of which 43,000,000 francs are capital, and 57,000,000 francs for crops and property, divided among 127,817 persons. ( Thirty days’ notice has been given to Pittsburgh puddlers, by the manufacturers, ot the contemplated reduction of the prices ot boiling iron, and another lockout is probable.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK; Nov. 15, 1875. BEEF CATTLE SIO.OO a 513.00 HOGS—Live 8.00 @ 8.1214 SHEEP—Live.. ................. 4.50 .© 6.50 FLOUR—Good to Ch0ice....... 5.70 @ 6.10 WHEAT—No. 2 Chicago...fT... 1.26 @ 1.27 CORN—Western Mixed... 74 @ .76 OATS—Western Mixed..:. 44 @ .45 RYE _ 80 @ .92 BARLEY 1.05 @ 1.10 PORK—Mees 22.50 @ 22.75 LARD—Prime Steam (New).... .12’i@ .13 CHEESE 06 @ .12& WOOL—Domestic Fleece 43 © .65 CHICAGO. BEEVES—Choice $5.50 @ $6.00 Good 4.50 @ 5.25 Medium 4.00 © 4.10 Butchers’ Stock ... 2.50 © 3.75 Stock Cattle 2.75 © 3.75 HOGS—Live—Good to Choice.. 7.30 @’,7.50 SHEEP—Good to Choice 4.25 @ 4.75 BUTTER—Choice Yellow 30 @ .S 3 EGGS—Fresh @ -24 FLOUR— White Winter Extra . 5.75 @ 8.00 Spring Extra 4.8714© 6.00 GRAlN—Wheat—Spring, No. 2. 1.08 © 1.0814 Corn—No. 2...., .52?,© .521* Oats—No. 2 .31%@ .3114 Rye—No. 2 a....'.. .67 @ .6714 Barley—No. 2 .85J4@ .86 PORK—Mess 20.45 @ 20.50 LARD 11.35 @ 11.8714 LUMBER—Ist and 2d Clear... 42.00 @ 45.L0 Common Boards... 10.50 © 12.00 Fencing 11.50 @ 12.00 ' “A” Shingles 2.75 @ 3.00 Lath ....: 1.75 © 2.00 EAST LIBERTY. CATTLE—Best $6.00 © Medium 5.00 © 5.25 HOGS—Yorkers 7.40 @ 7.60 Philadelphia 7.80. © 8.00 SHEEP—Beet 4.75 @ 5.C0 Medium 4.25 © 4.50