Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1876 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

thi «sinm At bliciwn. The Republican* hi New Orleans fnam the Northern and Western States replied, on the l«th, to the coausuuication of the visiting Domocrate requesting a conference, saying that they joined heartily with them In counsels of peace and In the expression of an earnest desire for a perfectly honest »nd just declaration of the results of the recent election In Louisiana by its lawfully constituted authorities; and they add that they know of no reason to doubt that such a declaration would be made; but they dM not see the propriety or utility of the conference proposed, for they had no such duty imposed upon them, and were without power er legal influence In the matter. They quote from the laws of the State relative to the canvassing of votes, and state that to reduce the question to the mere clerical duty of counting the votes actually cast, in distinction from rotes legally cast and returned, irrespective of the question whether they were fradulently or violently east, or otherwise vitiated, involved a nullification of the provisions of the laws of tbuHm* which had already been adjudicated as valid by the Supreme Court. They, therefore, declined to consent to the proposed conference. On the 17th the Democrats Issued s rejoinder to the address of the Republicans, in which they state tbyt they were fully aware that the organisation and action of the Returning Board of Louisiana were beyond any authoritative control from without, and that it would be the height of folly and arrogance on the part of those not citizens thereof to attempt to alter the laws of a State; but they had supposed, nevertheless, that there was an influence which might be rightfully exerted, even by citizens of this

Republic who are strangers in the State, and had taken it for granted that the presence there of the Republican citizens of other States, in response to the suggestion of the President, was a recognition Of this fact They conclude by saying that, “notwithstanding your refusal to co-operate, we still cherish the hope that the Returning Board, warned by the history ot the past, and conscious that its actions are being observed by the whole Nation, will discharge its delicate duty with such circumspection, fairness and impartiality as will give satisfaction to the American people. To this end we shall continue to labor." The vote in Ohio, as officially declared, was as follows: Total number of votes cast ■659,757; of these Hayes received 380,698; Tilden, 323,182; Peter Cooper, 3,057; Green Clay Smith, 1,636; and James B. Walker, an-ti-Masonie candidate, 76. Hayes’ plurality over Tilden, 7,516. The New Jersey Legislature is said to be Democratic on joint ballot by a majority of one; thus securing a Democratic United States Senator to succeed Mr. Frelinghuysen. A New Orleans telegram ot the 17th says several hundred affidavits had been received there from negroes, and some from Republican officials in Ouachita and other “ bulldosed” parishes, showing a peacabls and quiet election; also, the intimidation negroes who desired to vote the Democratic ticket, but did not do so for fear of violence from Republicans of their own color. The Republicans had counter-affidavits in many cases, showing violence and intimidation where the Democrats had sworn nothing of the kind existed. V

The total votes in Missouri for President and Governor are as follows: Tilden, 164,026; Mayes, 111 ,959; Phelps (for Governor), 163,646; Finkehnburg, 112,992. Democratic ma. jority for President, 52,067; for Governor, 60,654. The Northern Republicans in New Orleans replied on the 18th to the Democratic note of the day before, stating that they were gratified to learn that they had misapprehended the language and spirit of the Democratic communication of the 14th, and that they were in error in attributing to the writers of such communication a purpose to interfere with the legally constituted authorities in Louisiana in the discharge of their duties. They conclude as follows: “ We Shall be happy at all times to confer with you,and as individuals to co-operate in whatever shall be right, but concerted action for the purpose of influencing an official Board we hold to be beyond our privilege, and we shall hope that all may come to pass which good citizens can wish without the use of any such means.” The official count of the vote in Illinois gives the following result for President: Hayes, 276,360; Tilden, 258,347; Cooper, 16,122. Hayes over Tilden, 18,013; over both Tilden and Cooper 1,891. The Democratic majority for President in Virginia is 44,244: in Maryland, 19,799. Tilden’s majority in Alabama is 34,383. A Montpelier (Vt) dispatch of the 218 t ays: “The County Clerks met to-day to canvass the votes cast in the late election for President Their powers are simply ministerial, and, therefore, they decllned to hear or receive evidence outside of the certificate of votes by the proper authorities. Under this decision Mr. Sollace, Postmaster at Bridport at the time of the election, will receive a certificate of his election. An injunction is to be applied for.” '

The Circuit Court of Tallahassee, Fl*., on the 21st, temporarily granted an order applied for by the Democratic managers, restraining the Governor from canvassing the returns of the Electoral vote, or issuing his certificate to any Elector or Electors unless by order of the regularly appointed Board of Canvassers, and another in the shape of a mandamus to the Returning Board ordering them to proceed at once to a canvass of the votes. The Governor was ordered to show cause on the 23d why the injunction against him should not be issued permanently, and the Returning Board to show cause at the same time why the mandamus ordering an immediate canvass should pot be issued. ■he vote in •,384,148; nith (Pro 4 ■ V■i j . of South Supreme rsons who J votes for dndidates. ate was a ding that sgnlarities Republiwrected, Laurens

and Edgefield Counties, which gave large Democratic majorities,should be excluded on account of frauds and intimidation. On the 22d the Court made an order commanding the Board to issue certificates of election to all the persona who wore shown by the report of the Board to have received the highest number of votes for members of the Legtelatare, Including the Counties of Edgefield and Laurens. The Court ateo took up the case of the Electors, and issued a rule on the Board to show cause why they should not correct the statement of the County Canvassers by the precinct returns in their possession. Pending these proceedings of the Court, however, the Board held a session and Issued certificates to all the members of the Legislature, except for Laurens and Edgefield Counties, thus securing the majority of the Legislature to the Republican side, and the defeat of Hampton and election of Chamberlain. The Board also issued certificates of election to the Hayes and Wheeler Electors and to all the Republican State ticket. The Board then adjourned mu* die. A Columbia telegram of the 22d says this action of the Board had created much excitement, “ but the citizens are determined to rely upon the Courts ana exhaust all legal means of redress.” Gen. Hampton issued an address to the people of the State reciting the action of the Canvassers, in defiance of the Supreme Court, pronouncing it a high-hand-ed outrage which could .have no legal force whatever, and appealing to the citizens to maintain their character as an orderly and law-abiding people, stating that the matter had been carried to the higher court of the State, and they were willing to abide by its decision.

The Louisiana Canvassing Board finished the canvass of fourteen parishes, which were not contested, on the 22d, the totals being, Hayes, 19,684; Tilden, 13,53*. T|ic clerk reported that returns from fourteen parishes had not yet been received. The returns from the parishes not yet counted will probably be contested in nearly all cases. The Democratic counsel entered a protest against the rules adopted by the Board. A Columbus (Ohio) dispatch says the Democratic State Central Committee, and a number of representative Democrats from various counties of Ohio, met in that city on the 22d, for consultation. A series of resolutions was adopted declaring that patriotism demands of every good citizen a spirit of ready acquiescence in the result of the Presidential election as fairly ascertained, and deprecating all partisan feeling in the discussion of fact and law on which that result depends; demanding of the Senate and House of Representatives to exert, if necessary, the Constitutional powers vested in them, jointly or severally, to the end that whoever has been fairly chosen by the people shall be declared and inaugurated President of the United States; declaring the coficentration of the regular troops at Washington by the President, on the eve of the assembling of Congress, as an act calculated to throw discredit upon the disposition ‘ of the people to obey the law and submit to the results of the Presidential election as legally ascertained, and to excite unnecessary alarm as to the stability of the Republic, thereby imperiling peace at home and the public credit abroad; recommending a correspondence with other State Democratic Committees, with a view to a full understanding of the facts and perfect concert of action in maintaining the rights of the people in the late Presidential election, as determined by the proper legal authories. ; The official returns show Hayes’ majority in Minnesota to be 114,008.

FROn WASHINGTON. A Washington dispatch to the New York Evening Post says the following statement, taken from the books of the Department, shows the receipts and expenditures forjhe fiscal year ending June 30,1876, and will form the basis of the annual report of the Postmaster-General: Receipts ftvm all 50urce5529,644,197.50 Increase over last year 1,t52,836.91 Expenditures of all kiuda 88.203,487.58 Decrease from last year 347,821,87 Excess of expenditures over receipts 4,619,290.08 Excess of expenditures for previous year was:. 6,472,126.99 Nearly the entire receipts of the Department are derived from the sale of stamps, stamped envelopes, and postal cards, the receipts from these sources being <26,879,512.10. Among the items of expenditure the following were the principal ones, viz.: Inland t r anspcrt«tion<l4.74s,Bss.9s Compensation of Postmasters 7,897,397 91 Ofierks for Post-Offices 8,4-’0.73 1 '.15 Letter carriers 1.980,795.62 Railway clerks 1,2=3,7.0.19 Manufacture of stamped envelopes, postal cards and wrappers. 680.610.86 Foreign mail transportation 279,123.26 The revenue from money-order business was <120,000. In the case of Admiral Porter and others of the North Atlantic Squadron against the rams Texas and Beaufort and ten other Confederate vessels, in which <1,500,000 were claimed, a decree was issued in the United States District Court at Washington, on the 18th, declaring that for want of proof, the captors are entitled to but one-half of the proceeds of the prizes, and that the value of the Texas was <55,520 and the Beaufort $12,000. Secretary Morrill, on the 22d, issued an order suspending the Bureau of Printing and Engraving until he, could make an investigation concerning e’ertain alleged irregularities.

The several departments of the Government have called fox appropriations for the ensuing year amounting, in the aggregate, to about $175,000,000, against *150,000,000 appropriated at the last session of Congress. A Washington dispatch of the 22d says Gen. Barry had arrived there from Fort Monroe, and was in command of the United States soldiers stationed in that city. There were no arrivals of troops on the 22d, and Gen. Sherman said none had been ordered to Washington, except the eight companies or batteries then in barracks at the Arsenal and Navy-Yard. - BAST. NbwYork dispatches state that it is estimated that there is an aggregate of *2,500,000 held in the pool-boxes In that city, wagered on the result of the Presidential election, *1,250,000 of which amount is in the establishment of John Morrissey. House of Representatives* bn the 18th finally passed a bHI for filling the vacancy in the Electoral College—lß9 to 19. The act is specially designed to meet the case of H. N. Sollace, said to be ineligible. ■ -* ' ~ It is announced in the New York papers that the remains of Joseph Henry Louis Charles, Baron von Palm, Grand Commander

of the Sovereign Order of the Holy Sepulcher at Jerusalem, Prine# of the Roman Empire and Knight of St. John of Malta, will be cremated at Washington, Pa., on the 6th of December. Gold closed In New York on the 22d ■at 109%. The following were the closing quotations for produce: No. *2 Chicago Spring Abes t (New), <[email protected]; No. 2 Milwaukee (New), <[email protected]; Data, Western and State, 38@52c. Corn, Western Mixed, 56@60c; Pork, Mess, <17.06; Lard, 11c; Flour good to choice, <[email protected]; White Wheat Extra, $5 [email protected]. Cattle, 8%@!0%c for good to extra. Sheep, 4@6c. Hogs, 5%@6c. At East Liberty, Pa., on the 22d, cattle brought: Best, <[email protected]; medium, $4.50 @4.75; common, <[email protected]. Hogs sold— Yorkers, <[email protected]; Philadelphia*, <5.90@ fl. 10. Sheep brought <[email protected], according to quality.

west and sorrn. A hand-grenade was thrown into the Bitting room of the residence of Wm. H. Price, of Davenport, lowa, on the night of the 16th, which exploded with considerable violence, forcing out the wall of the house and demolishing the ceiling. It fortunately happened that no lives were lost. It was thought by some that the object of the perpetrator of the outrage was to kill Hon. Hiram Price, member-elect of Congress from the Davenport District. Elmer Washburn, ex-Chlcf of tfie United States Secret-Service Bureau, with several detectives, oh the night of the 17th, effected the capture of Jack Hughes, alias J. Smith, and Terrence Mullen, alias T. Durnam, in a saloon called the “ Hub,” at 294 West Madison street, Chicago, upon the charge of attempting to rob the tomb of Abraham Lincoln, at Springfield, 111., on the night of the 7th inst. The parties arrested had divulged their designs to a supposed friend who proved to be a detective and aided in their capture. The object of the scheme was to secure a ransom and the release of Ben Boyd, in State Prison for counterfeiting. At Sacramento, Cal., on the night ofj the 18th, during a performance at Moore’s Opera House,whichWas situated over a livery stable, the floor gave way, and the entire audience of about 1,000 persons, was precipitated into the stable below. The lights were extinguished by the concussion, and a scene of fearful confusion ensued. Eight persons were killed outright, and about 100 ethers were injured, many probably fatally. United States Marshal Leffingwell, at St. Louis, received a dispatch from Atty.Gen. Taft on the 18th to the effect that Presdent Grant had signed the pardon’ of William McKee, and authorizing the Marshal to release the prisoner at once. The Marshal immediately repaired to the jail where McKee was confined, and liberated him without delay. Win. O. Avery, ex-Chief Clerk of the Treasury Department, in prison at Jefferspn City, Mo., has also been pardoned oift and released from confinement. At Faribault, Minn., on the 20th, the Younger brothers pleaded guilty to an indictment for murdering Heywood, the cashier of the Northfield Bank, and were immediately sentenced to imprisonment in the State Penitentiary at hard labor for life.

The Christian Convention ’ of the Northwest assembled in Chicago on the 21st. A large delegation was present. The chief object of the assemblage was to take counsel concerning the further prosecution of the great revival in the West inaugurated by Mr. Moody at Chicago. In Chicago, on the 22d, Spring wheat, No. 2, closed at <[email protected] cash. Cash corn closed at 45%c for No. 2. Cash oats No. 2 sold at 32%@32%c; December options were sold at 38c. Rye No. 2, 65@ 66c. Barley No. 2, 69@70c. Cash mess pork closed at |[email protected]. Lard, <[email protected]. Good to choice beeves brought <[email protected]; medium grades, |[email protected]; butchers’ stock, <2.75 @3.30; stock caVJe, etc., <[email protected]. Hogs brought [email protected] for good to choice. Sheep sold at <[email protected] for good to choice. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE:, According to Berlin telegrams of the!7tb Prussia was about to mobilize two army corps in Posen and Silesia. A London telegram of the 18th says the Rothschilds had loaned a large sum of money to Russia. A Constantinople dispatch of tire 18th says Turkey had unconditionally agreed to a conference. According to a St. Petersburg telegram of the 19th, the Czar had issued an imperial ukase asking subscriptions fromlyssubjeets for 109,000,000 rubles.

A Vienna telegram of the 19th says that all the ships of the Russian Black Sea Navigation Company had been impressed into the service of the Russian Government. Full details of the effects of the stormwave of Oct 81 were received from Calcutta, India, on the 20th. The previously reported loss of life proves not to have been exaggerated, such loss being variously estimated at from 150,000 to 800,000. Three large islands and many smaller ones were entirely submerged, as was also the mainland for six or eight miles. The stench from the unburied putrefying bodies was becoming intolerable, and a general outbreak of cholera was feared. The disease had already appeared in the district of Nookholly. A London telegram of the 21st gives the full text of the remarks of the Czar of Russia to the British Ambassador at his court, in which the announcement is made that Russia does not desire war with Turkey; that she has no ulterior designs either 1 upon Constantinople or India, and that het only desire is the protection of the Christian subjects of Turkey. It was reported that the Russian authorities had sunk torpedoes off the harbors of Odessa, Kentch, Sebastopol and Eschahoff. It was also stated that the Austrian and Hungarian Governments, in view of possible warlike complications, ha prohibited the exportation of horses. The Pall Mall Gazette, Standard and other leading conservative London papers contained editorials, on the 22d, expressing their entire distrust of the Czar’s recent pacific assurances. -

A Sbmltn telegram of the 22d announces the resignation of the Servian Ministry ( n a body—cause not given. Since Nov. 1 over *7,000,000 in gold have been sent from London to the United States. Nearly *500,000 were shipped on the 22d. James Rian, of Peterboro, Ont, canTicted of wife-murder and sentenced to be hung on the 22d, had his sentence commuted to imprisonment for life on that day. Ryan is one of the millionaires of Canada, hk ?«. tate being valued at *1,300,000.