Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1879 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

MMM WABMIMIIII. ft la tbottgbt that Um Amara-of-Penaions MU, lately algaed by the Preaident, and now a tew, will require Um expenditure at a large amount of money. The estimate* range from BT»A(n.aX) to 8150,000,000—the former being th* eatimate of tenter IngaUa, and toe latter teat of tae’y Sherman. ' i On toe 3d, la Um United State* Senate, the aoaaineeaof the PreaMent for Collector and Naval Officer of tbe tart of New York were continu'd—the former by a vote of 33 to IM, and Um tetter by a vote of 81 to 18Tn National Bank circulation outstanding, on tbe I*l, amounted to 1332.930,840. The amount of bond* held as security for circulatlng note* w*» •848,089,900. *—' ' Puesi uext Hayes, on the sth, nominated Algernon 8. Badger to be Collector of Qu*toms at Na* Orleans, *fc« 0. L. Smith, to be r. moved, and W. 8. McMillan to be Postmaster, vice Badger. Tn following la the full text of the reaolutiona Introduced by Senator Edmunds, and . adopted by tbe United States Senate, on the teoliwl, Aa the judgment of tbe Senate, that the thirteraith. Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to Um Constitution of the United HtKtM h*te been IwJiv ratified, and are a* mSuand of th* -STtanunount authority as any other part of th* Constitution; that tbe people of each State have a common interest in the enforcement of the whole Constitution in every State of the Union, and that it is alike the tight and duty of Congress to enforce said sreesnlments, and to protect every citizen in the exerciae of the rights thereby secured, by town of a general character already named for that purpose, and by further appropriate legislation, so far aa such enforcement and protection me not secured by existing laws, and th»t it is the duty of tbe Executive Department of the Government, faithfully and with diligence, to carry all such tews into impartial execution, and of Congress to appropriate all moneys needful for th*t end. ffrei-ltod. further. Ibat it is the duty of Congress to provide by law for full and impartial protection of all citizens of the United States, dtuv qualified, in tbe right to vote for Representatives in Congress, and to this end the Committee on the Judiciary be, and it is hereby, insiructed to prepare and report, soon aa may be. a bill for tbe protection of such rights, and punishment of infractions thereof. Ths Secretary of the Treasury, on tbe 6th, issued another call for 820,000,000 of 5-20 bonds, interest and principal payable May 6th. A ucnrT circular from the Agricultural Department conveys the following information: T 1 e crop of corn for the year 1878 was 1,000,003,371 l ushels, an Increase over the crop of 1877 of 29,000,000, but worth 844,600.**8 leer; the wheat crop was larger iu 1878 than In 1877 by 57.000,000 bushels, but its aggr -gate value wai 860.010,000 less. On tbe 6th, Hon. N. P. Banks, Member of Congress from Massachusetts, was nominated by toe President to be United States Marshal for the District of Massachusetts. Advicm received in Washington, oh the 6th, discredit all former reports ahoulSitting Bull having recnseed the Canadian border into this country. Tag Agricultural Report, recently issued, gives the average price of the cotton crop for the whole country at 8X cents a pound; tbe value of ih> crop for IS7B was >194,700,000. The average price of tobacco was 5 6-10 cents; to* al crop of 1878 estimated at 393,000,000 pounds, worth $22,(0),000. Horses increased 3 per cent., but the price very materially de erased. Cows show an Increase in nearly all the Sires, and sheep increased nearly 5 per cent. The prices tor hogs have been ruinously low, whild the increase is about 5 per cent. Mules increased about 3 per cent. Acoobdino to a Washington dispatch of tbe Bth, th - President had directed his Cabinet to submit to him the names of all the important officers in the several departments that would, be vacated during the ensuing thirty days, the obj jet being to send in either new names or reappoint the present incum-. bents before the Bmate adjourns or passes intoD mocratic control. At a caucus of toe Democratic members of the House of Representatives, held on the evening of the Bth, a resolution was adopted to report a bill abolishing toe test oath now required to be taken by jurors.

TM« «A»T. On the 3d, the Brooklyn Presbytery voted to investigate Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, D. D. The resolutions adopted say Mr. Talmage is charged with falsehood and deceit and with using improper methods tn preaching. 8. H. Satler, of Danville, and 8. L. & T. D. Bayles, of Versailles, Conn., the largest individual woolen manufacturers in the United States, failed on the 3d. Liabilities about •1,000,000. '~ On the 2d, announcement was made of the death, at his home in Boston, of Richard Henry Dana, the distinguished poet and essayist. He was ninety-three years old. John C. Hulbert, ex-County Judge, and late President of the suspended First National Bank of Saratoga Springs, has been arrested and held to bail in the sum of *IO,OOO to answer to the charge of embezzlement. Thb Boston Journal and other influential Eastern newspapers do not accept the conclusion of the detectives that Barron, the late Cashier of the Dexter (Me.) Savings Bank, committed suicide because he was a defaulter to that institution in a large amount. Mrs. Barron, the wife of the late Cashier, denounces the conclusion as an outrage upon the memory of her dead husband, and declares she will not rest until the foul imputation is removed. Ex-Gov. Hartranft was, on the 7th, nominated as Postmaster at Philadelphia. A riluard tournament in New York City closed on the 7th, with Jacob Schaefer as champion player of the United States, and winner of the *I.OOO i rise. In the iret game between him and George Slosson, the latter made a ran of 464, but the former won the game, the averages being 855-7 and 81 4-7. Ths proprietors of a skatingwink, at Worcester, M st, have recently bten prosecuted for not allowing colored men to skate on their ice. Thb following were the closing quotations Chicag©SpringWheat,«l.(B(ai.o3X; No. S MUwaukee, «L0301.03X- OaU, Western Mixed, Corn, Western Mixed, 46 $ 46Hc. Pork, [email protected]. Lard, *6.80. Flour, Good to Choice, *8.9504.50; White Wheat Extra, *4.5505.25. Cattle, $8 50$ 10.' ® for Good to Extra. Sheep, *4.250 5.87 - Hoga, ♦4.2U04.85. Av East Liberty, Pa., on Feb. Bth, Cattle brought: Best, *5.0005.25; Medium, HM 04.75; Common, g 3.3504.12. Hogs sold— Yorkers, *8.9004.10; Philadelphian, *4.000 4.85. Sheep brought *3.soos.so—according to quality. < AV Baltimore, Md., on Feb. Bth, Cattle brought: Beat, *4AO OM7){; Medium, •4.0004.50. Hogs add at *5.0005.75 for Good. Sheep were quoted at *4.0005.8754 for Good.

WBW AH* Murn. Th* Nez pierces, through Chief Joseph, have ceded 4,800 square miles of land, in Idaho, to the United Stetes, receiving therefor six townships in the Indian Territory <n *° deposited in the Treasury, in trust for the Nee Peivea. I* a case before the United States Circuit OxinM Baltimore, MA, on the Sd, of a policeman, wEc ssSed to answer an indictBMrt, dunging Um withbtllot-box stuffing at

the late Congressional election, a general demurrer was entered, and auatalned by the Oort, alleging tost, under the statute* of the United States, stuffing a ballot-box is not a penal oSenaa. H. A. Mclntybb, a Lake City (Col.) banker, ba* been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment in the Penitentiary at Lincoln, Neb., for making false entries in his books. He was tried in the United States Court at Denver. A United States Guano Jury at New Orleans has found indictments against twentyfive persons in Caddo, Tensas, Natchitoches and Orleans Parishes, for violation of the Election law*. A number of delegates from Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota, lowa, Missouri and Kansas sssembled in St- Louis, on the 6th, snd organised the “ Mississippi Valley Cane-Growers’ Association.” John Walker, of Missouri, was chosen President; J. A. Hedges, of SL Louis, Corresponding Secretary; George Longman, Recording Secretary; E. W. Douglaaa, Treasuter; G. W. Belcher, of St- Louis, Expert. Mr. Belcher examined a sample of sugar made In Minnesota, snd pronounced it equal to the beat New Orleans sugar, and worth in bulk five cents per pound. On toe 6th, Merer*. Wells, Kenner and Caaanave, of Returning-Board fame, appeared before the Superior Criminal Court at New Orleans, withdrew their plea of not guilty, and filed a demurrer to the information against them, In which they claimed that, under toe decision of the Supreme Court in toe Anderson case, they were entitled to a nolle pros. The Attorney-General held that the decision in tbe Anderson case was not ret judicata, and holds good only In that case. Four Deputy United States Marshals made an attack upon a party of five moonshiner* in Patrick Countv, Va., on the 6th. The latter were fortified and resisted. A .fight ensued which lasted two hours, in which two moonshiners were badly wounded. The remaining then left their post and commenced a retreat, when four or five mountaineers, led by one Lineburg, came to toeir aid, and drove off the Government officer* and badly wounded two of them. -

At Naw Orleans, on the 6th, Judges Billings and Woods, of the United States Court, rendered a decision overruling the demurrer of tbe prisoners indicted for violating the Election laws of the United State* In the late election. Prisoners claimed that tbe indictments- were not properly drawn, and that Sees. 5506 and 5509 of the Revised Statutes were unconstitutional. The Court decided that the indictments were properly drawn and affirmed tbe Constitutionality of the sections under which they were found. The Congressional investigation into the charges against Judge Blodgett, of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, was closed in Chicago, on the 7th. Tbe sub-committee was iu session nearly two weeks. A report of the evidence would bo submitted to the full Judiciary Committee of tbe National House of Representatives, who will consider the same and report to the House' such action in the matter as may be deemed desirable. William H. Heath, Auditor of St. Louis County; Mo., from 1866 to 1876, has been convicted of the embezxTement of of the public funds, and sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment in the Penitentiary. A number of Cheyenne Indian prisoners from Fort Robinson, Neb., arrived at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., on the Bth, under a strong cavalry guard. They would be turned over to the State authorities for trial for raiding, depredating and murdering citizens in Western Kansas, last fall. In Chicago, on Feb. Bth, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at cash; 87J<@ 88c for March. Cash Corn closed at 31'40 for No. 2; 31%p for March; 85%c for May. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at 20%c; 21%c seller March; for May. Rye No. 2,43 X- Barley No. 2, 74%@75c for cash; 71X@72c for March. Cash Mess Pork closed at [email protected]. Lard, $6.65. Beeves —Extra brought Choice, 84.60 @4.BD; Good, [email protected]; Medium Grades, [email protected]; Butchers’ Stock, [email protected]; Stock Cattle, etc., [email protected]. Hogs—Good to Choice, [email protected]. Sheep—Poor to Choice, [email protected].

rOKIIGS INTKM.IMKNCJK. The Herman Minister at Bt. Petersburg advised his Government, on the 3d, of the rapid spread 'ot the plague throughout Russia, and advised immediate apd energetic measures to prevent its Introduction into Germany. Albert Grant, of Emma Mine notoriety, has been declared a bankrupt, with about 83,509,000 liabilities. London dispatches of the 4th say trouble had arisen between Russia and Roumanla over the possession of Arabtabia, a smaH frontier post of the Dobrudscha. The Roumanian General was in possession, and had been ordered to hold It by force If necessary. It was also reported that Russia was moving up her troops and would fight for its possession. The German Board of Health report that an Investigation shows that the plague has existed in Astrakhan since May, 1877. Even paper money In the district had been ordered burned.. The rumor of the outbreak of the plague at Odessa caused violent demonstrations at Palenno, Italy, on the 4th, but quiet was restored by the announcement that the Government bad ordered a quarantine of one week on all arrivals from the Black Sea. A St Petersburg telegram of the 4th says a military established around the infected districts.

Steele & Craig, extensive grain merchants, of Glasgow, Scotland, failed, on the sth. Liabilities about *400,000. Drukt Lane Theater, in London, was closed, on the sth, in consequence of the actors refusing to accept a reduction in salary. England and Portugal have agreed to joint operations against the slave trade between Mozambique and Madagascar. Above 30,000 persons in Glasgow are sup ported by public charity. The authorities of Malta have resolved- to impose a quarantine of twenty-one days upon vessels arriving from Russian porta on the Black Sea and Sea Of Aaof. According to late reports from Afghanistan, Cabul, the capital, was in a condition- of Utter anarchy. The Cabulese were fighting among themselves. ... BMLXJXO.to.a.letter .from Pete Hyacinthe, announcing the establishment of a Reformed Catholic Church in Paris, Mgr. Guibert, Archbishop of Paris, wrote, on the 6th, that he regarded his correspondent as non compos mentis, and a dreadful example of Divine chastisement for infidelity. On the 6th, ex-President Grant and party left Aden, Arabia, for Bombay. Russian newspapers of the 6th bitterly denounce Austria and Gymany for adopting precautionary measuree-to prevent the advent of the plague, and say this action is inspired by a desire to ruin Russian trade. A disease closely resembling the plague has made its appearance near Xanthia, in Thessaly. At Trieste an order has been issued to quarantine all vessels arriving from Turkish-JEgean ports. Juchanboef, the former Treasurer 1 of the Russian Mutual Credit Foncier Company, convicted of stealing £200,000, has been sentenced to sixteen years’ penal servitude in Siberia.

All English troops in Afghanistan have been ordered to return to Candahar. ordered at all Spanish ports. Ox the 7th, it was estimated that from 30,000 to 85,000 sailors and dock-laborers were on a strike at Liverpool. There had been considerable violence v and the police had been compelled to call for reinforcements.

: The definitive treaty of peace between Russia and Turkey was signed by the representatives of the two Government*, on the Btb v Next day the Russian* began the evacuation of Turkish territory. ", The Montenegrin* occupied Podgoritza, on the Bto. ‘ England lias concluded a convention with Turkey for the purchase of the State domain* in Cyprus, with the exception of the Sultan’* private estate. -.---t--— —— - ACCORDING to an Athens telegram of tiie 9th Greece bad established a rigorous quarantine, on land and on sea, as a precautionary measure against the plague. A Berlin dispatch of the 9th says the Iti-habltants-of an Astrakhan village had lately massacred all the doctors, believing that they poisoned all their patients. "X

COmJRKMIOXAL PROCKKDINUM. Bills were introduced in the Senate, on toe 3d—to transfer the Office of Indian Affairs to the War Department; to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into tbe United States, and to establish a Bureau of Public Health.... Mr. Teller presented a petition of the coloied people of Ixiuisiana, complaining that they are not protected either in life or propertv, and asking for the protection of the Federal Government- Referred to the select committee of which Mr. Teller is Chairman.... A bill was primed to provide for ascertaining and settling private land claims in the Territories of New Mexico, Wyoming. Arizona and Utah and the States of Nevada and Colorado. .. A joint resolution was introduced and referred providing for a commercial treaty with Mexicxi. .. A long Executive session was held, devoted to the consideration of the President's nominations for the New York Collector of Customs and Naval Officer, Mi. Bayard speaking in favor of, and Messrs. Edmunds, Voorhees, Howe. Cockrell, Morgan and Conkling against, confirmation. Tbe vote on confirming the nomination of Gen. Mer.ritt as Collector, lire Gen. Arthur, removed, resulted in S 3 yeas to 24 nays, a* follows: Yeac— Bayard. Bailey, Beck. Bumside, Cameron (Wis). Coke, Conover. Davis (W. Va.). Dawes, Dennis, Ferry, Gordon, Grover, Harris. Hereford. Hill. Hoar. Johnston. Kirkwood, McCreery. McMillan, Matthews Morgan. Morrill, Oglesby . Randolph, Ransom, Saulsbury, Saunders, Shields. Whyte, Windom and Withers—33- A’rtyn—Allison, Anthony, Blaine. Bruce. Booth, Chaffee.Cock rail, Conkling. Davis (111.1. Eaton. Garland, Hamlin. Howe, Jone* (Nev.), Kellogg. McDonald, Mitchell, Paddock. Patterson, Rollins. Sargent, Spencer, Teller and Voorhees 24. Menu*. Butler, Chriatiancy, Lamar, Merrimon. Plumb. Thurman and Wallace, who would have voted yea. were paired with Messrs. Barnum, Edmunds, McPherson. Ingalls, Sharon, Dorsey and Cameron (Pa.), who would have voted nay. Messrs. Kernan, Jones (Fla.), Maxey and Wadleigh did not vote, and Mr. Eusti* was absent The vote on the confirmation of Silas W. Burt to be Naval Officer resulted in 31 yeas to 18 nays. An analysis of the vote and the pairs on Gen. Merritt’s confirmation shows that twenty-seven Democrats and thirteen Republicans favored, and twenty-three Republicans and Seven Democrats opposed, confirmation, and one Independent (Davis, ill.) voted against confirmation.

Bills were introduced in the House—appropriating 18100.000.000 for the pavment of arrearages of pensions: authorizing the issue of 4-per-cenL bonds to the amount of $40,000 000, the proceeds of the sale of which shall be devoted to the payment of arrears of pensions; to establish a National Board of Agriculture: extending the time for the completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad. ..Memorial services were held, and resolvtions adopted in respect to the memory of the late Representative Quinn, of New York. Mr. Cameron (Wis.), from the Committee on l’rivileges and Elections, submitted a majority report, in the Senate, on the 4th, signed by the Republican members of the committee. declaring David T. Corbin duly elected Senator from South Carolina, and entitled to the seat. A minority report was presented by Mr. Hill, from the same committee, signed by the Democratic members, in favor of the incumbent, M. C. ’Butler.’... The H6use bill to attthorize the issue of certificates of deposit in aid of refunding the public debt was reported, with an amendment.... Mr. Edmunds' resolutions relative to the validity of the Constitutional Amendments were further considered. The Army Appropriation bill was considered in the House, in Committee of the Whole, and motions to reduce the army to 15,990, 17,000 and 20,000 were severally debated and defeated, the last number by a vote of 66 yeas to 118 nays. Consideration of the resolutions of Mr. Edmunds, declaring the validity of the Thirteenth. Fourteenth snd Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution, was resumed in the Senate, on tbe sth, and, after a lengthy debate, and the rejection of proposed amendments and substitutes, the resolutions Were finally agreed to—23 to 17-as follows: Fens—Anthony, Booth, Brace, Burnside, Cameron (Pa.), Cameron (Wis.). Edmunds. Ferry, Hamlin. Hoar, Howe, Kellogg, Kirkwood, McMillan, Mitehell, Morrill, Oglesby, Paddock, Plumb, Hollins. Spencer, Teller and Windom—*23. Nayt— Bailey, Bayard. Beck, Cockrell, Coke, Davis (W. Va.), Eaton, Garland, Gordon, Harris. Hereford, Hill. Kernari,’Lamar, Maxey, Morgan and Voorhees-17. Messrs. Allison, Dawes. Blaine, Saunders, Chaffee, Conkling, Patterson. Christiaucy. Dorsey, Matthews. Jones (Nev.), Sharon, Wadleigh and Conover, who would have voted aye, were paired with Messrs. ShiCreery. Barnum, Wallace. Butler, Eustis, McDonald, Dennis. Jones (Fla.), McPherson, Thurman. Ransom. Saulsbury. Whyte and Withers, who would have voted in the negative. The Mississippi Levee bill wan passed In the House—los to 73.. . .The Army Appropriation bill was further considered in Committee of the Whole ...Majority and minority reports-were made in the Florida contested-election case of Finlay and Bisbee, tnq majority report favoring Finlay, and the minority Bisbee. In the Senate, on the 6th, the bill to provide for taking the Tenth and subsequent Censuses was passed—46 to 4.... A resolution was agreed to instructing the Committee on Agriculture to inquire in regard to the reports concerning in fectious diseases among horned cattle. .... A message was rweived from the President inclosing the report of the Becretaty of State In Sgard to the proceedings of the International onetary Conference held in Paris in August, 1878. In the House, a bill was passed making approK' ons for the payment of claims reported alby the Commissioner of Claims... A resolution was adopted calling on the Commissioner of Peusions for statements in relation to the amount lequired to pay arrears of pensions.... The Army Appropriation bill was considered in Committee of the Whole. The Senate and House bills to restrict the immigration of Chinese tothiscountry were reported in the Senate, on the 7th ... The House bill to relieve curtain political disa--bilities of women, providing thltt any woman who shall hate been a member of the highest court of any State or Territory, or of tile Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, for the space of three years, and shall have maintained a good standing before such Court, ana wno shall be a person of good moral character shall, on motion and the production of such record, be admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, was passed without amendment—4o to 20. In the House, the Senate amendments to the Naval Appropriation bill were non-concurred in.... The Conference report on the Indian Appropriation bill was agreed to. and further conference was ordered on the Fortification Appropriation bi 11.... Several private bills were passed. The credentials of James p. Walker, Senator-elect from Arkansas, were presented in the Senate, on the 8th.... Conference reports on the Indian Appropriation bill and on the bill to abolish the volunteer navy were agreed to, and the bill* were passed. .. New Conference Committees were appointed on the Naval and Fortification Appropriation bi 115.... The House bill providing for the payment to officers and soldiers of the Mexican War of the three months’ extra pay provided for by the act of July 19, 1848, was amended and passed. Mr* Beale took his seat in tbe House as successor of the late Beverly Douglas, of Virginia .... A new Conference C mimittee was appointed on the Naval Afimopriatiou bi 11.... The Army Appropriation bill was taken up in Committee of tbe Whole, and several amendments were dieposed of, the proposition for a transfer of the Indian Bureau to the War Department being re-jected-yeas, 88; says, 101. The bill was reported to the House, and amendments were agreed to for the reorganization of the Army—ll 6to 92 expunging the authority to have troops at the poll*on election day—llo to 95-and repealing the law which requires that military headquarters ,n time of peace shall be established at points where tbe Government owns buildings and barracks. Other amendments were agreed to. and the bill was then passed.