Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1877 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

THE WAR IN THE EAST .¶ Advices from the seat of war in Asia report the Turks as falling back. The Russians have advanced on Olti, Ishakirbaba, Bakanyish and Toprak-Kalch, the Turks slowly retiring. .¶ The Turks have shot a number of Russian spies found within their lines. .¶ The Bashi-Bazouks stationed in the vicinity of Constantinople are committing excesses, and there is much alarm among suburban residents. .¶ The Turks, it is reported, have now in the field 70,000 troops against the Montenegrins. To oppose this force the mountaineers can hardly raise 20,000, and their position is regarded as critical. .¶ The Czar is said to be sorely exasperated at the utter inefficiency of the Russian commissariat. .¶ The besieged Turkish garrison at Nicsics, in Montenegro, has at last been relieved and revictualed for a year. .¶ A cable dispatch states that the Sheik-ul-Islam has called for the funds deposited in the Islam treasury, to be applied to the defense of Turkey. This treasure is made up by the annual offerings of the pilgrims to the shrine of Mecca, and is estimated in amount all the way from 250,000,000 to 600,000,000 francs. .¶ Russian accounts report horrible outrages by the Bashi-Bazouks in the district of country known as the Dobrudscha. Villages and farms are wantonly sacked and burned, and Christian men, women, and children tortured, murdered and mutilated. .¶ A correspondent telegraphs from Cettinje : “Relative to the Turkish defeat near Spuz, later accounts show that there never was a worse panic or a more disastrous rout known in the annals of war between Turkey and Montenegro. It was only the artillery of the forts that saved the Turkish army from complete destruction. The Turkish dead cannot be counted, because they lie along the plain nearly up to Spuz, and the artillery of the city prevents approach.” .¶ A dispatch from Vienna says: “Russia has

invited Austria to make military preparations for the purpose of preventing tho Montenegrins from being utterly crushed.” The long-expected pros sing of the Danube by tho Russians was begun at Ibrail on the 22<l of June, and before the close of the day an entire army corps had marched across tho stream on jxmtoon bridges, without any serious opposition, and taken up a jiosition on Bulgarian territory. An Erzoroum dispatch announces that Bayazi<l i has been reoccupied by tho Turks after driving out tho Russian garrison. Tho Turkish War Department is absolutely destitute of funds, and the execution of many contracts is suspondod. Turkish''advices from Montenegro report that Huleimau I’asha has driven tlio, insurgents from Ostrok, and taken possession of tho town. The Turks now occupy all the strategic positions, and the campaign iu Montencgious considered over. Tlio announcement of the crossing of the i>»iiubo at Ibrail and Oalatz, on the 22d of June, is fully confirmed!. The programme was adroitly planned and carried out. It had beou ascertained by Russian spies that the Turkish forces at Malchin word in no condition to oppose a crossing, if mado in forco, and that only straggling bands of Baslii-Bazouks were to be met among tho low lands along tho river. Accordingly, before dawn a few barge-loads of Cossacks wore sent across from Oalatz and Ibrail, which are eighteen milos apart. They were safely lodged on tlio Bulgarian side of tho river, and in a short time effected (i junction. Thus was formed a cordon of Cossacks between the river bank and the enemy. Under cover of this cordon tho pontoons woro rapidly lowed into position, the bridges laid, and tlio Russian battalions, amid tho greatest enthusiasm, marched across the river, attacked the Turks and drovo them from their position. By noon of that day the Russians were before tho outworks of Mateliin, which they carried by charging tlio batteries. The" noxt morning Matebin was occupied, tho Tm-ks having evacuated it and fallen hack.

GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. Pierre Joseph Lcfranc, the well-known Frpiich statesman, is dead. The editors and compositors of the two Turkish iiowsp4perß in Constantinople, 'Selamet and Mitsxavat, have been exiled, and publication of papers suspended. The scientific inquiry as to the practicability of a tunnel betweon England and France has been conipletcd. After thorough geological explorations and careful soundings the engineers have formed the opinion that the project is feasible. Gen. Grant will tarry in England somewhat than ho originally contemplated. A stupendous robbery has lately occurred in Franco. Nearly'half a million dollars’ worth of securities and railway bonds were stolen from a railway car wliilo in transit from London to Paris. The roblxjry was a bold one, and so skillfully executed that only a slight clew, if any, can be obtained to the perpetrators. Loth parties in Cuba scorn to bo growing fired of the soeplingly interminable conflict on that island, and it is not improbable that negotiations looking between the insurgents and the Spanish Government will shortly be commenced. England is determined to protect and guard the Suez canal at all hazards, and, with this purpose .in View, has decided to send an arniy of 15,000 or 20,000 trained Boldiors to Egypt. A Paris dispatch says a singular plot has been discovered in Egypt to blow up the banks of the Suez canal with nitro-glycerine. An Imperial ukase has just been issued in 'Eujssia, authorizing a loan of 200,000,000 roubles at 5 percent. Tho Russian rouble is • valued at about 80 cents. The (French Chamber of Deputies, after a week’s debate, has voted in favor of dissolution by 150 to 130. Tho wheat trade throughout Great Britain is reported depressed and stagnant.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. East. Some indignation has been excited among the Hebrew population of Now York and Saratoga by the refusal of tho managers of the Gland Union Hotel, at Saratoga, to entertain people of their faith. Mr. Joseph Seligman, the wealthy Jewish banker of Now York, recently visited Saratoga and called at the Union, but was flatly refused apartments on the ground that tho presence of Hebrews in the hotel injures its business. The Grand Union is tho property of Mrs. A. T. Stewart. Tho class of 1880 (Freshmen) of Princeton College, numbering nearly 100 young men, has been suspended, and required to leave town. Cause, “ bulldozing” the faculty. Tho oil men of Pennsylvania are greatly excited in consequence of a remarkable strike in the “bullion” district. One well has been opened on the Henderson fsrm which produces the extraordinary amount of 4,000 barrel* of tw « oth nt that yield each ever afooo barrel*, Th* ts thi* benuun war

to bring down the price of oil in Pittsburgh 20 cents a barrel in one day. .¶ Near Bridgeport, Pa., the other day, five tramps were killed by the falling of the walls of an old lime-kiln, in which they were sleeping. .¶ Eleven murderers, members of the notorious “ Molly Maguire ” organization, paid the extreme penalty of the law in Pennsylvania on Thursday, June 21. Six were hanged at Pottsville, namely : Thomas Munley, for the murder of Thomas Sanger and William Wren, at Raven Run, and James Roarity, Hugh McGehan, James Boyle, James Carroll and Thomas Duffy, for the assassination of Policeman Yost, of Tamaqna, one of the most cold-blooded and cruel murders on record. Four were executed at Mauch Chunk, viz.: Alexander Campbell and John Donohue, for the murder of Morgan Powell, a mine boss, at Summit Hill; and Edward Kelley and Michael Doyle, for the murder of John P. Jones, of Lansford, also a mine boss. Anthony Lanahan was hanged at Wilkesbarre for the murder of John Reilly. All the culprits died bravely, the most of them protesting their innocence to the last. .¶ Ben Butler has been presented with an elegant set of jewelry by some of his New York admirers. .¶ James Gordon Bennett has returned to New York. .¶ Since the recent executions in Pennsylvania, several deeds of violence have occurred, including two cold-blooded murders, that are almost directly traceable to the Mollie Maguires. Two witnesses in the late trials have also mysteriously disappeared, a number of persons have received coffin notices, and the law-abiding citizens of the anthracite region are greatly agitated by rumors that the friends of the executed Mollies are plotting for revenge. West. Tho Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad lias taken tho contract for tho removal of tho war munitions —consisting of 400 car-loads, or 50,000,000 pounds—from the St. Louis Arsenal to Rock Island. Financial circles in St. Louis wore somewhat startled, tho other day, by tlio announcement of tho suspension of tho First National Bank of that city, hitherto classed as “A No. 1” among tho financial institutions of tho city. It is stated that depositors will loso nothing. News comes by way of San Francisco of. a formidable uprising of Indians ill the region of Salmon river, Idaho Territory, tho massacre of many white families, tho gathering of the white settlers and friendly Indians for defense, followed by severe fighting, in which, according to tho latest accounts, tho latter wore getting badly worsted. Tho dispatches state that “ there is a general uprising of tho savages, and tho whole country is wild with alarm. Tho Indians arc massacring men, women and children in Camas Prairie, and settlers arc fleeing in all directions for safety.” The hostile savages belong to a tribe known as Nez Porccs, and are said to number 2,00 Q effective warriors. Gen. McDowell, commanding tho Division of the Pacific, lias ordered troops from a number of posts in tlio department to go to the sceno of trouble. Tho feeling among the Jewish citizens of Cincinnati over the Seligman affair has found expression in tho refusal of ovory Jewish house in the city«Jp deal with an agent of tho house of A. T. Stewart & Co. A number of firms, some of whom had dealt with that houso for many years, to the extent of over SIOO,OOO a year, canceled orders on their books and ordered else whore. Tho first reports of tho Indian outbreak in Idaho Territory wero not exaggerated. About thirty citizens were murdered on Camas prairie and that vicinity. The Indians, numbering from 1,000 to 1,500, are not ol the lowest class of hostilos. Tlio trouble with them is said to bo tho result of an attempt of tho Government to put tho Joseph band of Nez Perces on a reservation. To this they had consented, when one of their number was inexcusably shot by a white man, and all endeavors to secure tho punishment of the murderer failed. On Salmon river every white man was killed, but the women and children wero spared. There lias been some fighting between tho savages and tho white soldiers sont against them, resulting, according to tho advices before us at this writing, disastrously to the whites, about fifty of whom have been killed and wounded.

Dispatches from Boise City, Idaho, dated June 22, says: “The situation in Northern Idaho far exceeds in gravity any Indian outbreak of our day, and it will tax the best resources of the Government and of tho people immediately interested to subdue tho Indians and restore peace to tho conutry. At State creek the whites have fortified themselves in a stockade fort, into which havo been received the wives and children of tho murdered men, together with the families of the men who had escaped tho massacre. These women arc thus shut up in the midst of tho hostile Indians without adequate means of dofenso and without aid will certainly he overpowered and murdered, as the Indians declare tlicir determination to take the fort and murder tho men. Gen. Howard reports Ferry’s loss in tho engagement of the 17th inst., as one officer—Lieut. K. Holler, of tho 21st infantry—and thirty-three men. Heller was placed wounded oil his liorso by Capt. Trimble, but was afterward killed. Tho troops, though they allowed themselves to bo decoyed into ambush, displayed throughout tho action the utmost gallantry, and fought like tigers. About twenty-five or thirty soldiers wero killed in about the same number of minutes.” Tho town of Mitchell, Ind., was invaded the other night by a formidable band of vigilants, who hung two effigies and pinned a poster to their clothes warning law-breakers and evildisposed persons generally to walk a chalk-line Four desperate scoundrels jumped on tho train of tho Lake Shore road at Ligonicr, Ind., with the intention of robbing tho express cor. A party of detectives, who had gotten wind of the intended robbery, wero secreted in tho express car, and whon the four scoundrels, With blackened and masked faces, entered and began an assault on tho messenger, they sprung from their concealment, and, after a terrific hand-to-hand struggle, succeeded in conquering and handcuffing the wholo party. It was a very neat and well-executed job on the part of the officers. Had the robbers succeeded in thoir designs they would havo secured nearly $70,000 in greenbacks. Tho failure of S. Pulsifer & Co., heavy bankers of Peoria, HI., is announced. A small excursion steamer exploded her boiler on Lako /Minnetoka, Minn., tho other day. Result—Captain, engineer and one passenger killed ; pilot and ono passenger badly injured. A terrible tragedy has been enacted near the town of Gore, Hocking county, Ohio. John Weldon was found in a field with his head split open, and his sister and daughter were discovered in the house with their heads smashed. The deed was perpetrated by two men named Terrell and King, their motive being robbery. The fiends have been arr havo oonfeoed tho orlme. Tbrw waul! bojr*, »|ed mpoctively 9, 7 >&4 11 jmwj wbUt fc&thiftf la th* river at Chieif e,

tho other day, got beyond their depth and were drowned. South. A pitched battle was recently fought in Lewis county, Ky., between a party of law-and-order citizens and a band of horse-thieves, in which some fifteen men were killed and wounded. WASHINGTON NOTES. The Swiss mission, which Mr. George Schneider, of Chicago, resigned, has been tendered to and accepted by Mr. Nicholas Fish, son of Hamilton Fish, and at present Secretary of Legation at Berlin. The private subscriptions to the 4-per-cent, loan are not ooming in as rapidly as was anticipated by Secretary Sherman. Gen. Sherman has loft Washington for a tour of inspection among tho new military posts and routes on tho Yellowstone. Advices from Washington indicate that our old friend Sitting Bull has become an international nuisance. Correspondence is being exchanged between Canada and Washington looking to tho return of Sitting Bull and his followers to America, where thoy belong. Canada objects to his presence among the friendly Blackfeet. The subject, however, is full of difficulties. POLITICAL POINTS. Tho President has addressed the following circular letter to all prominent Federal officers throughout the country: Executive Mansion, Washington, June 23. Sin : I desire to call your attention to the following paragraph in a letter addressed by me to the Secretary of the Treasury on the conduct to be observed by officers of tho General Government in relation to elections : “No officer shall be required or pormitted to take part in the management of political organizations, caucuses, conventions, or election campaigns. Their right to vote and to express their views on public questions, either orally or through the press, is not denied, provided it does not interfere with tho discharge of their official duties. No assessment for political purposes of officers or subordinates should be allowed.” This rule is applicable to every department of tho civil service. It should bo understood by every officer of the General Government that he is expected to conform his conduct to its requirements. Very respectfully, E. B. Hayes.