Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1879 — General News Summary. [ARTICLE]

General News Summary.

‘ From Washington. TaaakMUaU call tor the redemption of 5-90 bond* *m tamed by the Secretary of the Treaeaiy.ontheMth. Amount, 990,000,000teterart and principal payable on the 24th of Mr r]hw.lfl 5 • ? ■ 1 ■ F. F> Dawns, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the National Greenback party, has addreaaed a letter to Thomas M. Nicholls, Secretary of the Honest-Honey League, refusing to enter into the proposed public dlscusHon of the Greenback question unless the Hoaest-Money League “can show that It is authorised tn speak for one or both of the regularty-otifnnlsed political parties.” Tn public-debt statement, tamed on the Ist, shows the following: Total debt (Including Interest of 984.938,178), 92,478,500,099. Cash to Treasury, 9447,292,498. Debt, less cash in Treasury, 82.098,907,M1. Increase during February, 8311,411. Ox the night of the Ist, the President sent to the House, where the measure originated, his veto Of the bin restricting Chinese Immigrstiou. A motion to pass the bill, notwithstanding the objections of the President, was defeated by a vote of 109 yeas to 95 nays—not the requisite two-thirds in the affirmative. •lite East. Ox the evening of the 23d, ex-Con-gressmsn Hasbrouck died at his residence, in Kondout, N. Y. He was eigbty-cight years old. Ths failure of the Peru Steel A Iron Company at Clintonville, N. Y., is announced. Liabilities, 8250,000. At a meeting held on the evening of the 21st, the German Republican Central Committee of New York adopted a resolution requesting the President to veto the Chinese-Immi-gration bill passed by Congress. The New York Tribune of the 24th contained a lengthy letter from Senator Blaine, in reply to reflections cast by William Lloyd Garrison upon the Senators who voted for the bill. Mr. Blaine justifies the adoption of the measure on commercial, sanitary and religious grounds, sod advocates the protection of labor from the alleged evil influences of Chinese immigration. Ths Rhode Island Prohibitory State Convention which met at Providence, on the 25ih, placed tn nomination as candidates for State officers the present Republican incumbents. Thu people of Dexter, Me., decline to accept the detective’s theory that Mr. Barron, the Cashier of th. Savings Bank, of that place, committed suicide, and recently held a memorial service in honor of the man who was “faithful unto death.” Th* man who, some time ago, in broad dayight, tore the diamonds from the ears of Mrs. Deßary, on Fifth avenue, in New York City, has been sentenced to twenty years’! mprisonment in the State Prison. Thu Philadelphia Record says iron has advanced in price 81.50 per ton since the Ist of January, 1879. Gs the night of the 96th ult, the schooner David H. Tolck was blown ashore at Barnegat, N. J., and the Captain, his wife and three seamen were drowned. Ox the 27th ult, the New fork Chamber of Commerce adopted resolutions requesting the President to withhold his signature from the anti-Chtnese bill. lx a letter, published on the 27th ult, William Lloyd Garrison replies to Mr. Blaine, and attempts to show that the proscription of the Chinese Is akin to the persecution of the negroes in the days of slavery. He denies that the treaty has been violated in the past by China,.and denounces the whole antiChinese agitation as a development of the spirit of caste, against which, he says, antislavery men have made it the work of their Lves to struggle.

The following were the closing quotations tor produce in New York, on March Ist: No. 2 Chicago Spring Wheat, <1.0301.04; No.2Milwaukee, <1.0301.04. Oats, Western Mixed, 33 034 c. Corn, Western Mixed, Pork, Mess, <9.75010.00. Lard, <7.02J4Flour, Good to Choice, <3.9504.50; White Wheat Extra, <4.5505.25. Cattle, <7.000 10.50 for Good to Extra. Sheep, <4.250 6.25. Hogs, <4.3004.40. At East Liberty, Pa., on March Ist, Cattle brought: Best, <5.0005.25; Medium, <4.40 04.70; Common, <3.6004.25. Hogs sold— Yorkers, <3.7004.05; 4.75. Sheep brought <3.2505.55 —according s to quality. " At Baltimore, Md.. on March Ist, Cattle brought: Best, <4 7505.62 X; Medium, <32-0425 Hogs sold at <5.5006.00 for Good. Sheep were quoted at <4.5006.00 for Good. " West and South. Os the 24th, the funeral ceremonies over the remains of the late Bishoy Foley took place at Baltimore. The attendance of clergy and laity was large, and the exercises imposing. A large number of citizens, who had assembled in a public hall in San Francisco, for worship, on the evening of the 28d, adopted a resolution, to be telegraphed to the President, petitioning him to sign the Chinese-Immigra-tionbill,. “as a measure vital to our civil peace, our business prosperity and our Christian civilization.” Ox the afternoon of the 24th, while the man train eouth was being shifted at Chambersburg. Vs., one car somehow left the track and ran down an embankment eight feet high and overturned. Of the twenty-fivegras-sengers on board, fifteen were seriously injured. Ow the morning of the 25th, at Chicago, Mme. LaChapelle concluded her task of walking 3,000 quarter miles—2,7oo in as many quarter-hours, and 300 in as many ten minutes. Her last quarter mile was made in one minute fifty-nine and one-half seconds. Capt. Paul Boyton has undertaken to float down the Mississippi from Pittsburgh Pa to New Orleans, in Ms life-saving suit He started on the morning of the 24th. According to a Portland (Ore.) dispatch of the 25th, a party of settlers on the Lower Weiser Lad lately followed a party of Indians, engaged in depredating the ranches in that section and killing stock and stockmen, into the mountains between Payette and the South Fork of the Salmon River. Here the savages were drawn into an ambuscade, and the entire party, numbering thirty-six. destroyed. C. W. Angell, the defaulting Secretary of the Pullman Palace Car Company, appeared before the Criminal Court in Chicago, on the 87th ult., pleaded guilty to the charge of embezzlement, and was immediately sentenced to ten years’ confinement in the Penitentiary at Joliet. 1 ’ Tua East St. Louis Rail MUI was recently entirely destroyed by fire, involving a loss of <l5O/100. , ... t . ' ~ * - Ow the morning of the 27th, the New Orleans Ttinet announced the contemplated resignation of Gov. Nicholls. Gov. Wabz Hampton, of South Carolina, .rerimed, zinthe 27th ult., and «r«e Immedintelf thereafter cmnmlsioued United States Tbb Ohio State Republican Convention will be held at Cincinnati, on the 28th of May. At a mass meeting of the people of San Francisco, on the afternoon of the 27th ult.,

resolutions were adopted requesting the President to sign the MH restricting Chinese immtgiation. Republlqen, Democratic and Workingmen speakers addressed the meeting, and great unanimity and onthustama . prevailed. At Baltimore, Md., a few evenings ago, a coat-olt lamp exploded in a house occupied by Mrs. Sharp (colored.) Clara Sharp and her son were burned to death, and a colored man, and Mrs. Sharp were severely injured. The house, was destroyed. Tua Democrats and Gre*nbackers of Michigan held their State Conventions at Lansing, on the 28th, and agreed upon the followtat nominations: For Supreme Judge, John B. Shipman; for Regents, George P. Sandford and Henry Whiting. The financial plank of the joint platform was as follows: “That money should be issued in sufficient volume to meet the requisites, of business; that the Government should regulate the value of money by preserving a uniform rate between supply and demand, and that this delicate and Important power should never be delegated to banks, corporations or Individuals.” Ox the night of the 27th ult., a sad and fearful disaster occurred at Carbon Hill, Ohio, a small place in the Hocking Valley. J. M. Luneford, who kept a small store attached to bls house, Was awakened by tire and smoke at midnight, and at once set about removing bls family. His wife and a baby, aged two years, were placed out of danger, and he then went up-stalrs to remove the rest of the family, but be was overcome by smoke and suffocated. Witbin five minutes from the discovery of the fire, the building was completely enveloped in flames, and the shouts and cries of the poor victims (seven in number) remaining In the building were heard by the neighbors, who had assembled at the fire, but they could not be reached, and the father and three daughters, aged.twenty, thirteen and ten years, and three shut, aged sixteen, twelve aud seven, peHsbed in the flames. It was feared the wife and mother would become a raving maniac.

Ax indictment has been found in the United States Circuit Court for the Western District of Virginia, sitting at Danville, against five County Judges in Virginia, on the alleged charge of withholding from negroes the right of serving on-juries. On the 28th ult., both houses of the Virginis Legislature adopted resolutions directing the Attorney-General to take proper steps to bring such proceedings before the United States Supreme Court for review and final adjudication. The action of the Federal Court was roundly condemned in the resolutions which were adopted. In Chicago, on March Ist, Spring Wheat No. 2 closed at cash; 94,‘-$@ 94%c for March. Cash Com closed at 33%c for No. 2; 33,Vc for March; E7%c for May. Cash Oats No. 2 sold at 23j4c; 23J-ic seller March;. for April. Rye No. 2, Barley No. 2, 79% @ 80c for eash; 79% (280 c for April. Cash Mess Pork closed at 810.10@ 10.15. Lard, 86.67%. Beeves —Extra brought [email protected]; Choice, 84.50 @4 70; 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]. Foreign Intelligence. According to Nantes (France) dispatches of the 24th, the River Loire had overflowed its barriers, and was disastrously inundating the surrounding territory. A Warsaw (Poland) telegram of the 24th announces the bursting of a large dam above the city, in consequence of the accumulation of drift ice, and the destruction of a large amount of property. This Khedive of Egypt and the King of Abyssinia have concluded a treaty of peace, the latter receiving a pension in exchange for the disputed territory. T(lb native British allies in South Africa have been disbanded, in obedience to orders from home. 1 On the 25th, a proclamation was circulated throughout the Turkish territory lately occupied by Russian troops, announcing the re-es-tablishment of Ottoman authoritv, and advising Christians by no means to abandon their homes. The North Staffordshire (Eng.) Colliery Company has been forced to go into .liquidation. According to a Paris telegram of the 25th, Marshal MacMahon was suffering seriously from opthalmia, which was complicated with other and serious general symptoms. The young French Prince Imperial has gone to South Africa as a volunteer. The Government has permitted him to join the staff of the Royal Artillery. According to London dispatches of the 26th, the cattle plague had made its appearance at Manchester and other places in England. The authorities had directed the immediate slaughter of the infected animals, and all others adjacent.

A heavy storm prevailed throughout Italv, on the 26th. Venice was inundated from the sea, the water in ,St Mark’s Place standing thirty inches deep, and the coast from Genoa to Naples was strewn with wrecks. The British steamer Silistria was wrecked at Salerno, and eighteen persons were drowned. Evans, Davies & Co., proprietors’ of the Lilydale Collieries, at Hanley, Eng., failed on the 27th ult Work has been commenced at Madrid on the buildings for the International Exhibition of 1880. The steamer Adriatic was recently wrecked near Dunkirk, Scotland. Of the forty : nine persons on board, forty-two perished. A Vienna telegram of the 27th ult reports a tremendous avalanche near Marburg, resulting in the death of twenty-one persons and the destruction of nine houses. Baron von Manteuttel, the distinguished German publicist, died, on the 28th ult. The Mayor of Sheffield, Eng., stated, on the 28th nit, that there were in that town 4,000 destitute persons, and 400 starving families. The Russian Government has ordered a criminal inquiry into the affairs of the latelysuspended Bank of Kronstadt, and directed the arrest of the Managing Director. A Vienna dispatch of the 28th ult. reports the revival of the Macedonian insurrection. The announcement was made, on the 28th ult., that Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, would, on the 13th of March, wed Princess Louisa Margaret, niece of the Emperor of Germany. In London, on the Ist, the following failures were announced: Campbell & Co.; London Numerical and General Printing Works; George Francis Dickinson. Aggregate liabilities, <1,500,000. A telegram was received in London from the Viceroy of India, on the Ist, announcing the receipt of a telegram from Yakoob Khan, stating that Shere All died on the 21st of February. j A St. Petersburg dispatch of the Ist says the rebellion against the Chinese Government in Kashgar had been completely crushed. According to a Calcutta dispatch of the 2d, the Viceroy had received from Yakoob Khan a proposition for the renewal of friendly relations ■ _ Congressional Proceedings. . Im the Senate, on the 24th, the House bill authorising the Secretary of the Navy to accept, for a voyage of exploration by way of Betaiug’a Strait, the ship Jeannette. tiered hy J.G. Bennett, was passed. ...The Army Apwee further considered, and a lengthy debate ensued on the clause in regard to allowing railroads to me their telegraph Rbra f grams are authorized to be transmitted by railtelegraph lines, and which shall file their written acceptance of the

Mrtricti<«ie and obligations imposed upon taleffmph comimntai.Jiy Title 66 of the Iteviaed Btalutea, for lb* Tlbvemuwnt and the general public at rate* .to lie fixed ‘by th* Government neeording to the piovMona_of Title 65 of the Revised Statute*.'' 1 fitbit! was reported to the Senate, and the amendment striking out the House clause fortlidding the use of tirorip* at the polls, and punishing officers for violations of this section. wm sustained—M to 88. The tall, as auu-nded m committee, was then passed ...During the consideration of the hill to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases, etc., it was ascertained that no quorum was preaent. and. after the Ser-geant-at-Arms had lieen instructed to request the attendance of • alisent Senator*, and bail reported that ' he had done so, a motion was agreed to that such officer be instructed to oompel the attendance of absent member*, except such as were ill. At 2JU on the morning of the 2 th the Senate was still waiting for the executinn of the order, some of the old employes of the Senate remarking that this whs the first time in the history of the American -Senate that such an order had been made. In the House, a Conference Committee was ordered and appointed on the disagreeing voles of the two houMson the Tobacco bill .... Bills wore introduced—for the payment of additional bounty to aoUMers during the late war: to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases, and to establish a National Board of Health . A motion to suspend the rules and pass the Sundry Civil Appropriation hill (416,936.100} was agreed to—lol to 79.

After securing the attendance of a quorum, on the morning of the 25th, the Senate passed the bill to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States and to establish a Bureau of Public Health... After adjournment, the Senate reassembled at one o'clock, p. m„ on the 2Bth and a Conference Committee was appointed on the bill to amend the Internal Revenue hw ■ A tele gram was submitted, and its reception objected to, from the California Constitutional Convention, thanking Congress for the passage of the bill restrioting the immigration of Chinese, and declaring that Senators and members who supported the' bill will receive the lasting gratitude of the people of California.... A motion to take up the resolution declaring David T. Coibin entitled to a seat as Senator from South Carolina, in place of M. C. Butler, the pre.ent incumbent, was defeated—yeas, 25: nays, 36.Messrs. Cameron (Pa.), Conover, Matthews and Patterson voting with the Democrats in the negnti ve.... Several amendments to the Deficiency Appropriation bill were azreed to. In the House, resolutions were reported from the Committee on Elections, declaring that R. G. Frost (contestant) is not, and that L. 8. Metcalfe (sitting member) is, entitled to the seat as Representative from the Third Missouri District. .... After an exciting debate m Committee of the Whole, on the amendment to the Legislative Appropriation bill repealing the law creating the office of Supervisors of Elections, etc., the amendment was agreed t 0—135 to 110. After other amendments had been adopted, the bill was reported to the House, and an attempt was made bv the Republican members to defeat, the adoption of the above-named amendment by refraining from voting, but the Speaker voted affirmatively. thus making enough votes pi constitute a quorum, the result being 143 toB. The bill as amended was finally passed-143t0 112... A Conference Committee was ordered on the Army Appropriation bill. A bill was reported by Mr. Edmunds, in the Senate, on the 26th, further to protect the Constitutional rightsof citixens, and to punish violations of the same.... The Conference report on the bill to amend the Internal Revenue laws was agreed to, and the bill was passed.... The Deficiency Appropriation bill was taken up, and a long discussion ensued on the amendment appropriating $250,000 to supply the deficiencies of the Department of J ustice for the payment of Deputy Marshals, when Mr. Beck moved to strike out the clause relating thereto, and insert an appropriation of S'SO.OOO as a sum to defray the expenses of thi -United States Courts, the safe-keeping ot prisoners, etc., which was rejected—yeas. 3i; nayt/ÜB. After being otherwise amended, the bill was reported from committee and passed ...A Conference Committee was appointed on the Army Appropriation bi 11.... At the evening session a large number of Pensioq bills were passed. In the House, the iCensus bill was reported from Committee of the Whole, with an Amendment vesting the appointment of the Supervisor in the President, by and with the consent of the Senate, and the bill as amended was passed.... The bill modifying the tariff on sugar was taken up, but no final action was reached.... A report was presented from the Conference Committee on the Tobacco bill, retaing the tax on matches, but pending its consideration a motion to adjourn was carried. In the Senate, on the 27th ult., Mr. Teller, from the special committee to inquire nto the alleged violation of the Constitutional rights of citixens daring the late elections, submitted the report of the majority, and said the minority reserved the right to submit a report. Mr. Teller also submitted a resolution continuing the committee until next session, and authorising it to Bit during the recess, but it was objected _to and laid aside ...The House bill making an appropriation for the payment of arrears of pensions was considered and amended. .... The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was reported with amendments. Speaker Randall made a personal explanation, in the House, in regard to charges made against him in a letter written in September, 187 G. by Special Agent Williams, to the effect that he (Randall) was largely interested in the manufacture of fiber paper for the Government, and after an emphatic denial of the statement, he demanded that the matter be submitted to a special committee for investigation. The committee was ordered, and the Speaker i/ro J<-m. (Mr. Carlisle) appointed Messrs. Chandler. Lynde, Throckmorton, Frye and Monroe as such committee... The Conference report on the amendments to the Tobacco bill was agreed to. The tax on matches is unchanged. .. After considerable discussion, a resolution reported from the Committee on Expenditures in the State Department for the arrest of George F. Seward, as a contumacious witness, was adopted—l4s t 044.... ■ A bill was passed providing that interest on called bonds, or those surrendered under the provisions of the act to facilitate the refunding of the National debt, shall cease after the expiration of forty days from the date of surrender or date of notice required to be given by the Secretary pf the Treasury,

A communication Was teceived in the Senate, on the 28th ult., from David T. Corbin, contestant for a seat from South Carolina, in which he stated that he had been before the Senate for two years, actively asserting his right, but that, as it will be useless for him to renew the contest at the next session, he withdraws from the contest. ...A number of private bills were passed... .The bill making an appropriation for the arrears of pensions was taken up. and an amendment was agreed to, providing that the pension shall commence from the death or from the time of actual disability, providing the application be made prior to July 1880. Other amendments were disposed of, and the bill, as amended, was passed—Bß. to 2(k...The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was then considered, and several amendments were agreed to. The Post office Appropriation bill was reported back in the House, and the Senate amendments were non-concurted in—the Vote on the amendment providing for the Brazilian Mail subsidy being 89 yeas to 159 nays, A Committee of Conference on the bill was ordered.... George F. Seward. Minister to China, was brought before the House charged with contempt, for refusing to produce the books and records of his office to aief in the investigation of the charges against Him, and for refusing to be sworn as a witness; and still persisting" in such refusals a motion was agreed to—ll 2to 103—referring the matter to the Judiciary Committee, and Mr. Seward was discharged from custody on his own recognizance. ... - The evening sermon Was confined to theconsideration of Pension bills, and to bills for the removal of political disabilities. A large number of amendments to the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill were agreed to in the Senate, on the Ist, and the bill was passed. One of the amendments adopted provides that *10.093 shall be paid to D. T. Corbin, late contestant for a seat from South Carolina..«< Conference Committees were appointed on the Pustoffiee and Deficiency Appropriation bills. ■ • • The Post-Route bill was reported and placed on the calendar.... The Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was taken up, and the following addition was marie—29 to 26 to the House elause making an appropriation for the prosecution of offenses against the laws of the United States: ‘’And for defraying the expenses which may be incurred in the enforcement of the act approved Feb. 23, 1871. entitled ‘An act to amend an act approved May 80,1870, entitled '• An act to enforce the right of citizens of the United States to vote in the several States of the Union, and for other purposes." or any acts amendatory thereof orsupplementary thereto.’” An amendment was also agreed to—3l to 27 striking out the House provision repealing the test-oath-of jurors. The same disposition was made—29 to 26 —of the House clause repealing that part of the Revised Statutes providing for Supervisors and Deputy-Mar-shals of Electrons. Several other amendments were disposed of, and the bill, as amended, was passed —The River and Harbor Appropriation bill was also amended and passed. ....The vote by which the Arrears-of-Pensions bill was passed, was reconsidered- 23 to 27—and then the vote on Mr. Shields’ amendment extending the provisions of the bill to soldiers and sailors of the Mexican War was also reconsidered—27 t 024: amotion was then made and rejected—yeas, 24; nays. 26—to amend t-o as to provide that no person who served in the Confederate Army, or held office tinder the Confederate Government, should be entitled to a pension under this act: an amendment was then offered and debated, declaring that Jefferson Davis should never be paid a pension under this act

Among the bills passed in the Honse were—extending the provisions of the act of 1874 for the. relief of settlers on railroad lands; extend"-' tag the time fur the paxwwtpLpre emptipnaD public lands in Minnesota;. for the "protection of settlers on public lands; establishing- a land district in the Black Hills; for the payment of claims reported allowed by the a<counting officers of the Treasury: Senate bill for furnishing trusses to disabled soldiers.... Conference Committees were appointed on the Postoffice and Deciency Appropristi'an bi115....A motion to suspend the rules, and pass the Senate bill amending the Patent laws, with amendments, was (rejected .. .The Senate Yellow-Fever bill was taken

up, and a substitute whs agreed t 0—125 to 113 - a* an amendment, establishing * Board of Health te meet in Washington to fnuhe rules and rapnlatioiia and make invi stUations: the bill as lunended was then rdjeeted-yeas. 111: naps. 10 -•II tließepublicans V..ting agionsi tbill, to did kUo most of Uie members from New York. A motion to reconsider was murie and earned, and the bill wa* laid on the table-134 to 100.. .. The President's Message vetoing the Chinese Imiuigratiou.tall.waa read, aud the question a» to whether the Mil should pm», notwithstanding tlieoeto whs put, and resulted in yeas. 109; navs, 95—le*a than the neeswtry two-thirds in the affirmative, iuk! so the bill was rejected.. ..The report and re*olotion for tie impeachment of George F. Seward, late Consul-Genera! nt Bluinghili. and now United Stabs Minister to Chins, were presented-but the House refused—lo 9to 12ft-to consider the question.... A motion worn adopted—S3 to Bi-to hold a session on Sunday, for the piirpoM) of recniving messages from the President, from the Senate and from the Conference Committees. .